NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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ERYTHRiNA PARCELLI. 
A very handsomely variegated stove plant from the South Sea Islands. It has a stoutisl. woody 
stem, furnished with alternate leaves, the petioles of which support three leaflets. The variegation is 
yellow, sometimes forming a featlier-like stripe along the costa and main veins, sometimes more 
suffused, and forming a band an inch wide, in which case the lateral veins take on more colour and 
the coloured line becomes again branched ; when at its fullest colouring, the centre of the leaf is 
mottled with yellow. The flowers are also attractive, of a bright cinnabar red colour. For illustration 
vide page 31. 10s. Gd. and 15s. 
ERYTHROXYLON COCA. 
This extremely interesting plant is of great officinal importance in South America, where its leaves 
are largely employed as a masticatory, under the name of Coca. When taken internally it acts as a 
powerful stimulant of the nervous system ; and, when under its influence, persons are able to perform 
long and rapid journeys without exhaustion: “Four times a day, whatever the nature of his occu- 
pation— whether employed in the mines, the fields, as a muleteer, or domestic servant, the Indian 
resigns himself to the pleasures of Coca chewing.” Its sustaining powers during long and tirin" 
journeys have been tested among the Scottish mountains by Sir If Christison, who found advantage 
from its use. 15s. and 1 guinea. 
EUCHARIS AMAZONICA, 2s. 6rf. and 3s. Gd. 
CANDIDA, 10s. Gd. 
EUCODONIA, vide Index. 
EUGENIA MAGNIFICA, 1 guinea. 
EUPHORBIA JACQUINI2EFLORA, 3s. Gd. 
SPLENDENS, 3s. Gd. 
EURYCLES CUNNINGHAMII, 3s. Gd. and 
5s. 
EXOSTEMKA CHONTALENSIS, 10s. Gd.. 
FERNS, vide Index. 
FICUS BARBATA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
DEALBATA, 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
EBURNEA, 5s. 
FICUS EXSCULPTA. 
A handsome stove plant, furnished with evergreen leaves of a peculiarly elegant form. It has been 
introduced from the South Sea Islands. The leaves are shortly stalked, lanceolate in outline, and 
sinuately lobed, the lobes again sinuate so as to produce a prettily-cut margin, the curious cremations 
giving the leaf the appearance of having been stamped or punched out.' In the upper half the lobes 
become so much enlarged that the margin is deeply pinnatifid. This was one of the twelve New 
llants with which Mr. William Bull gained the First Prize at the Provincial Show of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, held at Preston in 1878. For illustration, vide page 32. 1 guinea. 
FICUS LANCEOLATA, 7s. Gd. | FICUS PARCELLI, 3s. Gd. 
FICUS SYCOMORUS. 
This is the exceedingly rare Sycamore Tree of Scripture. 10s. Gd. 
FICUS RADICANS, 3s. Gd. 
FITTONIA ARGYRONEURA, 2s. 6(7 and 
3s. Gd. 
GIGANTEA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
PEARCEI, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
FRANCISCEA ACUMINATA, 3s. Gd. and 
6s. 
AUGUSTA (RAMOSISSIMA), 3s. Gd. 
and 5s. 
CALYCINA, 5s. 
CONFERTIFLORA (LAURIFOLIA), 
3s. Gd. and 5s. 
EXIMIA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
HOPEANA (UNIFLORA), 3s. Gd. and 
5s. 
FRANCISCEA HYDRAN GEiEFORMIS, 
3s. Gd. and 5s. 
LATIFOLIA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
LINDENI, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
MAGNIFICA, 5s. and 7s. 6 d. 
ROSEA PERFECTA, 10s. Gd. 
VIOLACEA GRANDIFLORA, 5s. and 
7s. Gd. 
GARCINIA LIVINGSTONI, 10s. Gd. and 15s. 
MANGOSTANA, 2 and 3 guineas. 
GARDENIA AMCENA, 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
CITRIODORA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
FLORIDA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
FORTUNEI, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
V ARIEGAT A, 5s. to 10s. Gd. 
GARDENIA GLOBOSA. 
The merits of the Gardenias as garden plants are well known, their evergreen character and the 
fragrance of their flowers being some of their leading peculiarities. The present subject, which is a 
native ot R atal where it extends from the sea-coast to an elevation of 1200 feet, is a free-flowering 
shrub, having lanceolate glabrous leaves. The large white funnel-shaped fragrant flowers are terminal, 
the tube broad, an inch long, hairy at the mouth, and with the spreading limb an inch and a half 
across ; they are succeeded by globose fruits, as large as a walnut, to which the name bears reference. 
3 0s. Gd. * 
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