NEW PLANTS. 
DIEFFENBACHIA CARDERI. 
lited plant, introduced from South America. It has oblong-ovate leaves, 
.ewhat deflexod, of a rich dark groen, strikingly blotched and variegated; 
/ariegation being about equally distributed, makes the plant exceedingly 
It has received a First Class Certificate from the Eoyal Botanic Society, 
j XIII. H guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA DELECTA. 
.iottled green stems, and elliptic-lanceolate leaves, eight to ten inches long, having 
satiny surface, spotted with a whitish variegation. The narrowish spreading and 
.eaves give it an elegant character. 1 guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA LEOPOLDII. 
»o South American stove plant of resplendent beauty. The leaves are oblong-ovate, of a rich 
, U strous satiny green, traversed by a broad and stout ivory-white rib, which is bordered on each side 
■rough its entire length with a whitish band, and shows in strong contrast to the colour of the leal 
surface, producing a marvellously fine pictorial effect. It is one of the most handsome of thqDidffiJn- 
bachias yet introduced, and was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. M . B. gained the Fust 
Prize at the Provincial Show of the Royal Horticultural Society held at Preston in 18/8, and the First 
Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition held at Ghent in 1878. For illustration, vide page 
I. 1J guinea. 
DIEFFENBACHIA SPLENDENS. 
A striking stove plant of great beauty, remarkable for the lustre of its colouring. The stem is 
faintly mottled with dark and light green. The leaves have a thick ivory-white mid -rib, and the ground 
colour is of a rich deep velvety bottle green, with a conspicuously lustrous surface, freely market wi 1 
whitish striated blotches, which stand out in striking contrast with the dark green ground colour, 
is a remarkably fine and telling plant, imported from the United States of Columbia. This was one 
of the twelve Now Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the. First Prize at the International Horti- 
cultural Exhibition, hold at Ghent in 1878. For illustration, vide page II. 11 guinea. 
DOODIA ASPERA MULTIFIDA. 
A handsome crested new greenhouse Fern, of neat dwarf evergreen habit, with prettily arched Mronds, 
rendered drooping by the dense tassel at their apex ; the young fronds are prettily tinted with pink 
Thfs was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Pr ze at the Provincial 
Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at Preston in 1878. 7s. 6 d. and 10s 6d 
The above Fern was sent out by Mr. W. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must be considered an introduction of 1879. 
DROSERA DICHOTOMA RUBRA. 
Avery beautiful form of Sundew, with dichotomously-parted leaves but odiously ^f^Us 
D. dkhotoma (binata) by its red colour, and its always more repeatedly forked leaves. The idant s 
moreover altogether smaller, and the segments of its leaves arc narrower and shoitci. Thc leaf-lobes 
arc densely fringed and studded with red hairs tipped by a transparent white globule, the bans m J) 
dkhotomJbemg white tipped with a red globule. The flower-scape is about a foot high, divided 
three erect branches, each forming a short raceme of white flowers. 1J guinea. 
GENTIANA KURROO. 
A very beautiful herbaceous perennial, introduced from Assam. It forms a tuft of longish, broadly- 
linear leaves, much like those of a broad-leaved Statice. The flower-scapes arc axilla, j and rccumt i n , 
two or more flowered • the individual blossoms about two inches long ; the outside of the tube whit , 
the face of the limb bright cobalt blue, freckled in the centre part of each lobe with small white dot ; , 
tile XX unspotted. It is a very pretty plant, and quite distinct J^red 'n the Botameal 
Magazine for January, 1880, tab. 6470, and in the Garden for March 20th, 1880. 7s. 6 b . 
The above plant w as sent out by Mr. W. B. last year, after Ins Catalogue was published , 
must be considered an introduction of 1879. 
