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NEW PLANTS. 
EUCALYPTUS FICIPOLIA. 
This heautiful new crimson-flowered Eucalyptus is not a large-growing species like most others of 
the family, hut is of quick growth, and plants of it are soon covered with its magnificent trusses of 
^-rimson-toioured flowers ; its leaves yield an essential oil which has proved a valuahle febrifuge. 5s. 
HELICONIA METALLICA. 
- A distinct-looking plant of the Musacoous type, introduced from the South Sea Islands. The leaf- 
•stalks are distichous, of a bronzy red, sheathing at the base, while the leaf-blades are of a broadly 
lanceolate form, the central rib, margins, and curving veins being of a dark bronzy red, which is 
also the colour of the under surface. The leaves are elegantly drooping and recurved from the toji of 
the petiole. 1 guinea. 
HIBISCUS ROSA-SINENSIS MAGNIFICUS. 
A remarkably handsome and allractlvo variety producing magnificent flowers, which are of large 
size, fine form, and an exceedingly bright rosy magenta colour shaded with crimson ; the base, of each 
petal is marked with a blotch of rich chocolate, which forms a large dark centre to the flower. 7s. 6rf. 
IXORA CONCINNA. 
A .splendid variety producing large and compact trusses of tine tlowers, which on tirst oxpandiiig 
ai-c of a bright salmon colour, but gradually change to deep salmon-pink ; extremely beautiful. lO.v. till. 
IXORA DECORA. 
Yellow flaked mth rosy crimson ; remarkably .attractive ; a magnificent variety producing noMc 
tnisscsof very huge fine flowers. 10s. 6fh 
IXORA VENUSTA. 
A beautiful variety producing fine trusses of very large flowers, which on first opening are of a 
bright orange colour, changing aftenvards to salmon-bulf. lO.s. Crf. 
KzEMPFERIA GILBERTII. 
tlc.shy-rooted stove perennial, with attr.actively variegated foliage, introduced from the East 
1 ndics. Erom the succulent roots are annually iiroduccd a tuft of oblong-lanceolate deep green 
leaves, which are .slightly undulated at the margin, and bordered by a broad and very conspicuous 
band of w’hite. The purple and white flowers arc peculiar in form as often oceur.s in the Zingiber- 
sveeous order. For illustration, vide page 1. 10s. (id. 
MARANTA ASYMMETRICA. 
A very pleasingly variegated ]ilant, the leaves gi-owing about a foot in height, and having a lin« 
spreading habit. The Icaf-blade.s are ov.ate, marked in an oblique direction on the dark green surface, 
with numerous broad silvery gray bands. The midrib is peculiar, the blade on one side being about 
an inch and a half wide, and on the other side bulged out to two and a half inches, giving the 
leaf a singular appearance. lO.v. Gd. 
MONOLOPHUS SECUNDA. 
A small-growing dcciduou.s plant of the Zingibcracoons order. It has slender leafy stems about a 
couple of feet in height, bearing distichously arranged leave.s, and terminal oblong spike.s of pretty 
bright rose-coloured flowers, of which one of the three petaloid inner segment.s, representing the lip, is 
1ar"er and cleft. It is a native of India. iOs. Gd- 
NEPHTHYTIS LIBERICA. 
A new species of an interesting little group of troiiical AYest African plants. It has a craeping stem 
mnd sagittate leaves of a cheerful green colour ; the llower-sc.apo is terete, with a few minute seatteied 
quackles ; the's])alhe is grccliish whiti'. It was discovered by one of my eolleetors in Liberia. 10-s. <i</. 
NERINE EXCELLENS. 
A novel and beautiful hybrid variety of the Amaryllidaccous family. It is a greenhouse plant of the 
.^■asiest culture, and of free-flowering habit. The flowers grow in umbels of from six to nine together, 
and have a very siiowy appearance, the rellexed perianth segments being two inches in length; the 
colour is a bright rosy-pink, with carmine-crimson rib down the centre of each segment. It is a vciy 
c harming addition to the family. Figured in the Florist and Poynidorjist. lO.v. Gd. 
