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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DRAC^NA GOLDIEANA, 
Oue of the most magnificent ornamental-foliagod plants ever introduced, and altogether unique in 
■ character and aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of erect hahit, and the 
stems are closely set mth stalked spreading leaves, the petioles of which are of a grayish colour, terete, 
with a narrow furrow along the upper side, the base being dilated and sheathing the stem. The blade 
of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminate, with a yellowish-green costa, and marbled and irregularly 
banded rvith dark green and silver-gray in alternate straight or furcate bands, the colours being about 
equally distributed. The back of the unfolded loaves is a pale reddish purple or wine colour, and the 
stem where visible at the upper joints is of similar hue, the lower parts becoming green. It is, without 
doubt, one of the most superb of ornamental stove plants, and indispensable in all first-class collections. 
This beautiful species has frequently been shown in Mr. W. II. 's winning collections of New Plants. 
10s. 6fh, 15s. and 1 guinea. 
DRACrENA GOLDIEANA, 
