NEW PLANTS 
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CURCUMA LUTEO-VIRIDIS. 
A fine tnberoug-rooted store perennial of the Zingiberaceous order, haring large oblong-acute green 
leases, which are decorated from the margin inwards with an oblique raricgation of yellowish green.. 
The leares are on tall green stalks, and altogether grow about two and a-half feet high. 10s. 6d. 
CYCLANTHUS DISCOLOR. 
A remarkable and distinct store plant, imported from the United States of Colombia. It has dis- 
tichous sheatiling leaf-stalks, supporting a bifid leaf-blade, the two segments of which are lanceolate, 
with a tapered point, curved, and more or less frilled at the edge. In the young state, when first 
developed, tlie leaves are variegated or streaked with a tawny orange hue, which passes off as they 
grow on to maturity. 1 guinea. 
DAVALLIA FIJIENSIS PLUMOSA. 
This is certainly one of the most charming in the whole range of evergreen stove Ferns — one of the 
most lovely forms of a remarkably ornamental family. It has creeping whitey-brown rhizomes, and 
from these spring uj) at intervals the gracefully-drooping, feathery, plumose fronds, which grow on 
stalks a foot or more in length, supporting a broad triangular lamina, which curves over in the most 
elegant manner. It will be a grand subject for all decorative purposes, e.specially useful for cutting, 
and a noble Fern for e.xhibition specimens. As its name implies, it is a native of the Fiji Islands. 
In speaking of the best novelties, the Gardener^ Chronicle (Jan. 7th, 1882, page 10), remarks : 
“The Davallia fijicnsh plmnosa is, perhaps, one of the most elegant of all known Ferns.” It 
has received a First Class Certificate from the Floral Committee of the Koyal Horticultural Society. 
For illustration, vide page 3. 1^ guinea. 
DIEPPENBACHIA MAJESTICA. 
A truly majestic stove plant, distinct and stocky in habit, with boldly-marked foliage of a rich dark 
green, variegated with scattered bright yellowish blotches, and having besides a feathery silvery bar 
along the central line ; the leaves arc oblong-ovate, tapered to the point, a foot or more in length, and 
five to six inches broad. The bright yellow-green spots give it a cheerful and well-marked .appear- 
ance. Ij guinea. 
DIEPPENBACHIA PRINOEPS. 
A bold and handsome stove plant, of ornamental character. The leaves are dark green, with a few 
scattered yellowish spots, and a silvery gr.ay marking running through the centre, that in the upper 
half of the leaf being most distinctly developed. The leaf-blade is somewhat oblique, the narrower 
side being most distinctly cordate. 1 guinea. 
DIOSCOREA SPECIOSA. 
A free growing stove climber, with decorated foliage. It has slender angular stems, which bear 
the cordate-sagittate dark green seven-nerved leaves, marked with an irregular band of silvery- 
gray between the ribs, the upper one* being shorter ; the under surface of the leaves is of a purpli.sh 
colour. 10s. 6d. 
DRYMONIA MARMORATA. 
An erect-growing Gesneraceous plant, with the stems obscurely tetragonal, bearing large opposite 
leaves, si.x inches long by three and a half inches wide, having long reddish purple petioles, the blade 
ovate, bullate, dark green, with the convex portions between the veins of a glistening gray; the margin 
crenate, the under surface purplish. The flowers, which grow in the leaf-axils, are creamy white 
and fimbriated. 7s. 6d. 
EPIPREMNUM MIRABILE. 
This is the celebrated “Tonga Plant,” a remarkable Arad introduced from the South Sea Islands ; 
it has large shining dark green elliptic-oblong pinnatisect leaves, more or less oblicjue and having 
numerous pellucid spots scattered along the region of the midrib. When the plants are small and 
young, the leaves are entire, but gradually develop, until they finally become pinnatisect. The 
largo inflorescence resembles that of ilonstera deliciom. From this bold and ornamental stove 
Arad, a very valuable and important drug is prepared, known as “Tonga, the specific for neuralgia.” 
For illustration, vide page 12. 10s. Crf. 
EUADENIA EMINENS. 
A remarkably distinct and interesting plant, discovered in Liberia by one of my collectors; it is 
e.specially notable on account of its peculiar inflorescence, which resembles a candelabrum in its rami- 
fication, the yellow petals looking like a pair of gas jets on each branch. The plant is of branching 
habit, with alternate trifoliate glabrous leaves, which are composed of three entire ovate-lanceolate 
deep green leaflets ; the inflorescence is terminal and erect ; the dorsal petals about four inches long, 
and of a clear sulphur-yellow colour. Figured in the Botanical Magazine for September, 1881. For 
illustration, vide page 5. IJ guinea. 
