NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
ASPARAGUS FALCATUS. 
A copiously-branched twining evergreen greenhouse plant, imported from South Africa. It is 
remarkable in the young state for its resemblance to some of the long-leaved Acacias. It grows several 
feet in height, and has slender angular branches. The leaf-like cladodia are in threes, bright green 
and glabrous ; the hermaphrodite flowers are white, and grow twenty or thirty together, in lateral 
Racemes, from the nodes of the branches. 7s. 6 d. 
The above plant was sent out by Mr. AV. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must be considered an introduction of 1879. 
ASPARAGUS PLUMOSUS. 
An elegant overgreen climber, from SouthAfrica, with slender stems, smooth and numerous spreading 
branches ; the hermaphrodite white flowers are produced from tho tips of the branehlets. It is an 
exceedingly handsome ornamental plant for the greenhouse or conservatory, and its pretty feathery 
growths are extremely useful for cutting for decoration. For illustration, vide page XI. 1 guinea. 
BERTOLONIA VITTATA. 
A very pretty hybrid Melastomaccous plant, belonging to the class sometimes popularly called Jewel 
Plants, on account of tho sparkling richness of their colouring. The variety now offered has a dwarf 
stem, from which spread the shortly-stalked leaves, which are ovate-oblong in form ; the colour is a 
velvety olive greon, the midrib being marked out by a glistening band of burnished silver, while the 
side ribs are indicated by a slighter dotted line of the same ; the flowers are of a soft rose colour 
10s. 6d. 
Tho above plant was sent out by Mr. AV. B, last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must be considered an introduction of 1879, 
CRINUM AMCENUM. 
This pretty bulbous plant has been imported from Assam. Its fragrant flowers aro white, tinted on 
the outside with rose, about five inches across; the stamens and stylo are crimson, forming a nice contrast 
with tho white segments. 5s. 
The above plant was sent out by Mr. AV. B, last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must be considered on introduction of 1879. 
CYPHOMANDRA ARGENTEA. 
A strikingly handsome stove plant, imported from Brazil. Tho leaf blade is elliptic, eight to ton 
inches long and four to five inches broad, with a dark costa and prominent distant primary veins, 
the principal part of tho leaf proper being of a bright silvery tint, broken up by a few transverse green 
veins ; the underside is glossy, and deoply stained with purple. The stems and leaves are quite 
smooth, and rather fleshy in texture. The wliito surface of the leaves renders this plant pleasing 
and attractive. 1 guinea. 
The above plant was sent out by Mr. AV. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must be considered an introduction of 1879. 
DIEFFENBACHIA AMCENA. 
An effective variety of this showy race of Arads, obtained from the tropical regions of South America, 
Its oblong acute leaves are of a deep green, marked with very abundant elongate blotches of white and 
pale yellow, which are as well defined on the under as on the upper surface. It is a very attractive 
plant, on account of its bright and abundant raaculation, For illustration, vide page XIV. 1; guinea. 
