NEW PLANTS. 
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SAXIFRAGA FORTUNEI. 
This is an exceedingly handsome Japan plant, it produces fine corymbs of white blossom, at a 
season when flowers in the greenhouse are very scarce, viz. ; September, October, and November • 
being an easily cultivated plant, it is an exceedingly desirable introduction. 
Price 7s. 6(7., 10s. 6rf., and 15s. each. 
SELAGINELLA DENTICULATA VARIEGATA. 
A very pretty variegated variety with all the branchlets pointed with white, looking in the 
Avinter as if tipped with snow ; but this character is peculiar to it in winter, for during the summer it 
assumes a somewhat greener aspect. 
Price 3s. 6(7. and 6s. caeh. 
SELAGINELLA MERTENSI ALBO-VARIEGATA. 
Another pretty variegated kind. Its very conspicuous white blotches contrasted with the green 
appear- at a short distance as if speckled with silver, or half covered with snow flakes. 
Price 3s. Gd. and 5s. each. 
SKIMMIA OBLATA. 
A most beautiful Japanese evergreen hardy shrub, producing beivies of the brightest vermilion 
red ; this is one of Mr. Fortune’s discoveries, and proves to be quite distinct from all other Skimmias 
as yet known, in the remarkably oblate shape of its bright red berries, so obviously difterent from the 
dull red oblong fruit of other Skimmias. It is also strikingly distinct in its foliage, which is of a 
different texture, as well as in its habit, from the other species known to us. It is a free-growing 
shrub with dense clear green leaves ; the panicles of bright coloured berries nestling amongst the 
foliage at the ends of the branches. 
Price 21s. and 42s. each. 
SMILAX MACROPHYLLA MACULATA. 
A variegated foliage stove climber with largo ovate acuminate leaves, which are bright green, 
spotted and maculated with white. 
It has been introduced from Mexico, and is of easy culture. 
Price 10s. Gd,, 15s., and 21s. each. 
SPHACELE C.ffiRULEA. 
A useful winter-blooming plant belonging to the Labiatce family. It is soft-wooded, with thick, 
ovate serrated foliage, and if cultivated in a warm greenhouse, gives its pretty blue flowers all through 
the winter in the most abundant manner. 
Price 5s. and 7s. Gd. each. 
SPH.3EROGYNE CINNAMOMEA. 
An ornamental plant introduced from Costa Rica, the aspect of which is really noble, for the 
leaves are about a foot and a half long, by nine inches broad. Its cultivation is easy, and it succeeds 
admirably in a warm greenhouse or stove. The specific name is derived from the cinnamon-like 
character and colour of its stem, which makes a pleasing contrast to the massive light gi-een foliage. 
This plant can be recommended as a First-class novelty, well adapted for exhibiting as a foliage 
plant. 
It has received various Certificates of Merit for its ornamental character. 
Price 10s. Gd,, 15s. and 21s. each. 
