NEW PLANTS. 
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NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
BULL, L.L.S. 
AOMENA OVATA 
A neat ovorgroen greenhouse plant, referred by some authors to Eugenia, and belonging to the 
Myrtaceous order. The stems are of a dark xmrplish brown colour, clothed with opposite leaves on 
(lark purple petioles, the leaves being of an ovate form. The young foliage is of a purplish red colour, 
and givc.s the plant a sti iking .appearance while the new grajwth is in course of development. 10s. G(/. 
iEOHMEA PANICULIGEBA. 
A very handsome Bromeliad, imported from the West Indies. The llowcr scape is several feet high, 
of a reddish purple colour, and clothed with white down ; this supports a large compound panicle, one 
to two feet long, of numerous rose-coloured llowcrs, the petals of which project beyond the sepals, and 
arc of a deep bright purjde, tlio inllorescence being highly attractive. The whole of the rachidcs and 
the bracts and bractlets arc rose-coloured. The leaves are lignlate, abruptly enlarged at the base, 
and with a .short acumiiiation at the apex. 10s. (id. 
AGLAONEMA PIOTUM GRACILE. 
A small and neat-habited stove Arad introduced from Borneo. It has a slender erect stem, 
liearing elliptic acuminate leaves, wdiich are of a light gi'cen colour, blotched irregularly with broadish 
angulato patches of gray. The inHoreseence is axillary, on .short peduncles, the spathe being of a pale 
creamy yellow, folded round so .as to appear globul.ar-oblong, opening at top, the projecting spadix 
b('ing white. 10s. Gd. 
AINSLI-fflA APTERA 
A perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Mntisiaceous division of the C’oinposita-. It has deeply 
cordate sinuately toothed leaves, the petioles of which arc wingless — whence the name ; and stalked 
discoid heads of pnrjdc florets, which are disposed in an elongated spike-like ))anicle. It comes from 
the .Sikkim llim.alaya, at an elevation of 12 — 13,000 feet. 7s. 6<i. 
ALSOPHILA REBECC.®. 
.\n elegant Tree Fern introdueeil from Queensland. Tire stem is very slender ; the fronds are 
(■lli)>tie bipinnate, the larger pinnic bearing on each .side numerous pinnules, which are stalked, linear 
aeuminate with an nnequ.al subcordate base and an inciso-crenate margin. The texture of the frond 
is firm, the, surface glabrous ; the rachis clothed on tlie upper .surface with black fibrillosc sciiles. It 
is very distinct from all other Australian Tree Ferns, and a veiy elegant addition to tlie group. For 
illustration, ride p.ige 10. 1 and IJ. guinea. 
ARENGA WIGHTII. 
A fine Indian stove Falm from the region of Coimbatore. It h.as a dwarf stem, and pinnate leaves 
with alternate linear piunag and .smooth petioles. In the young plants the Iciives are at first simple, 
eunoate and arose around the upper edges ; as the plant developes they split up into piume, tlie next 
stage being that with a onneatc central lobe, and a pair of narrower lateral pinme, in which the apex 
is obliquely cut away on the lower sid((. 1 gfiinea. 
CALAMUS SUBANGULATUS. 
An interesting stove I’alm introduced from tho East Indies. In the young sUto it Inis green prickly 
stomr, the spines being arranged in three longitudinal linos on the leaf stalks. Tho loaves at this stage 
of develoi>ment arc bifid. 1 guinea. 
CALYPTROGYNE TERES. 
A stove Palm imported from British Guiana. It lias smooth terete green iictiole.s, and spreading or 
drooping leaves, which in the young plants consist of two pairs of linear-oblong tapered leaflets about 
two inches wide, Imight green, and having the principal ribs raised on both surface.s. It will prove 
a very useful and ornamental Palm. 1 guinea. 
