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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
This remarkable Japanese plant (which has been introduced to cultivation through the agency of 
Mr. T. Hogg, of New York) has a most peculiar appearance when gi'owing, the idea suggested by a 
group of it being that of a cluster of porcupine quills. The plant, which is a true Rusli, throws up 
erect terete leaves, but these, instead of being gicen, are transversely banded witli white and green, 
the colours being, in most cases, pretty evenly distributed ; sometimes the Avhito preponderates, the 
surface being citlier wholly white, or the green bauds bciim narrower and less conspicuous ; but in tht^ 
best marked leaves, the green and white portions occupy alternately nearly equal bands. lO^. 
