NEW PLANTS. 
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H/EMANTHUS KALBREYERI. 
Having received a large importation of this magnificent species from the West Coast of Africa, Mr. 
W. B. can make special olfer of good bulbs of it by the dozen or hundred. Its showy flower heads are 
of immense size, often producing in a single head, upwards of a hundred of its attractive flowers, which 
are of a [bright reddish vermilion colour. The filaments are brightly coloured, while the golden 
anthers have, a pretty effect in contrast with the mass of glowing colour. Figured in L' Illustration 
Horticolo for August, 1879, and in the Garden for November 15th, 1879. This was one of the twelve 
New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the Great Show of the Royal Horticultural 
Society held at Kensington in 1879. For Illustration, vide page IX. 5s., 7s. 6 d. anil 10s. 6 d. 
The above plant was sent out by Mr. W. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must be considered an introduction of 1879. 
HETEROSPATHE ELATA. 
A very elogant Palm from Java. It is a smooth-stemmed species, and is remarkable for the length 
of the tapered segments of its pinnate fronds. The leaflets are half an inch broad, with somewhat 
wider intervals between them, bright green on both the surfaces, narrowing upwards into a long slender 
tapering point. The plant has a naturally graceful spreading habit, and ranks amongst the most 
ornamental of the pinnate-leaved series. 2 guineas. 
IRIS K/EMPFERI CHELSEA HERO. 
A very largo and handsome double-flowered variety of Kaunpfer’s Iris, introduced from Japan. 
The flowers are flat and regular in form, fully five and a half inches across, of a rich blue purple, lit up 
by a golden bar at the base of each of the six segments, which are closely imbricated, and spread out 
horizontally. The breadth of the segments, and the complete imbrication of the inner over the outer 
series, give a peculiar fulness to the flower. 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. 
JUNCUS L/ETEVIRENS. 
A free-growing tall species of rush, imported from Japan, and remarkable for its vivid green colour. 
The root is creeping, throwing up crowded tufts of leaves, which are three feet or more in height, some- 
what distichously sheathing at the base, and distinctly compressed at the sides ; the bright green 
colour is a very striking and characteristic feature of the plant, which probably, will prove to be quite 
hardy. 10s. 6d. 
JUNCUS ZEBRINUS. 
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 growing, the idea suggested by a 
group of it being that of a cluster of porcupine quills. The plant, which is a true rush, throws up 
erect terete leaves, but these, instead of being green, are transversely banded with white and green, 
the colours being in most cases, pretty ovenly distributed ; sometimes the white preponderates, the 
surface being either wholly white, or tho green bands being narrower and less conspicuous ; but in the 
best marked leaves, the green and white portions occupy alternately nearly equal bands of about half 
an inch deep. It is a most interesting plant. For illustration, vide page XVI. Small plants, 7s. 6 d. 
and 10s. 6 d. \ good plants, 1 and H guinea. 
JUSSI/EA MACROCARPA CILIATA. 
An interesting and showy, free-growing, half-hardy plant, having pentangular stems, which arc 
hairy and somewhat winged at the angles ; they are furnished with alternate ciliated leaves, both 
surfaces of which are smooth, and bear towards the extremities large yellow axillary flowers, fully two 
inches across. It was Introduced through one of my collectors, from the United States of Colombia. 
10s. 6d. 
The above plant was sent out by Mr. AV. B. last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must bo considered an introduction of 1879. 
LITOBROCHI A COMANS DENSA. 
A handsome pteroid Fern of bold character, the fronds of which form a spreading head around an 
erect caudex. The fronds are pentangular in outline, pedately-bipillnatc in division, and firm in 
texture. The lower pinna; are stalked and Unequally developed, the posterior basal pinnule being 
larger than the rest. It has been introduced from Now Caledonia. 10s. 6 d. 
The above Fern was sent out by Mr. AV, B; last year, after his Catalogue was published ; so that it 
must bo considered an introduction of 1879. 
