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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DIEFPENBACHIA SPLENDENS. 
A striking iilant ol' great beauty, remarkable for the lustre of its colouring. The stem is faintly 
mottled with dark and light gi'een. The leave.s have a thick ivory-white midrib, and the gi'ound 
colour is of a rich deep velvety bottle-green, with a re.splcndent lustrous surface, freely marked with 
whitish striated blotches, which stand out in striking contrast with the dark green ground colour. It 
is a remarkably fine and telling plant, imported from the United States ot Colombia. This was one of 
the twelve New Plants with which Jir. W. 13. gained the First Prize at the International Horticultural 
Exhibition hehl at Ghent in 1878. 10s. 6d. and 15s. 
HIEFFENBACHIA SPLENDENS. 
