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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
EBYTHBINA PARCELLI. 
A very handsomely variegated plant from the South Sea Islands. It has a stoutish woody stem, 
furnished with alternate leaves, the petioles of whieh support three leaflets. The variegation is yellow, 
sometimes forming a feather-like stripe along the costa and main veins, sometimes more sulfuscd, and 
forming a hand an inch wide, in which case the lateral veins take on more colour, and the coloured 
line becomes again branched ; when at its fullest colouring, the centre of the leaf is mottled with 
yellow. The flowers are also attractive, of a bright cinn.abar-red colour. 10s. 6d. 
ERYTHRINA GLAUCA, 5s. | BRYTHRINA MARMORATA, 5s. 
ERYTHBOXYLON COCA. 
This extremely interesting plant is of great oflicinal importance in South America, where its leaves, 
arc largely employed as a masticatory, under the name of Coca. AVhen taken internally it acts as a 
powerful stimulant of the nervous system ; and, when under its influence, persons arc able to perform 
long and rapid journeys without exhaustion. “ Four times a day, whatever the nature of hLs occu- 
pation — whether employed in the mines, the fields, as a muleteer, or domestic servant, the Indian 
resigns himself to the pleasures of Coca chewing.” 10s. Sd. 
