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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
FICUS EXSCULPTA. 
A handsomo plant, furnislicd with evergreen leaves of a peculiarly elegant form. It has heen in- 
troduced from the South Sea Island.s. The leaves are shortly st.alked, lanceolate in outline, and 
sinuately lohed, the lobes again sinuate so as to produce a prettily cut margin, the curious crenations 
giving the leaf the appiearance of having heen stamped or punched out. This was one of the twelve 
New Plants with which Mr. William Hull gained the Firat Prize at the Provincial Show of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, held at Preston in 1878. 5s. and 7s. 6rf. 
jriCUS EXSCULPTA, 
