NEW, BARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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HIBISCUS (ROSA-SINENSIS) MINIATUS SEMI-PLENUS. 
This remarkably showy stove plant lias firm almost leathery ovate leaves, which are coarsely toothed, 
and brilliant flowers of a vermilion scarlet colour, darker towards the base of the petals. The flowers 
are semi-double, the petals very much waved and recurved, forming an irregular undulated mass- 
four inches across, from which the partially petaloid staminal column projects two inches. The 
brilliant and attractive flowers are remarkable for the absence of formality, the shape being wild, and 
abounding in fantastic curves, but nevertheless they are remarkably handsome. It has been imported 
from the South Sea Islands. 3s. 6 d. 
HIBISCUS (ROSA SINENSIS) VIVICANS. 
A fine free-flowering stove plant of vigorous habit, with ovate stalked leaves, and remarkably large 
flowers, four and a half to five inches in diameter, full double, the centre being completely filled up 
with broad convolute petals, having tufts of stamens intermixed. The colour is a brilliant crimson 
scarlet. It is a very shorvy variety, and w-as imported from the South Sea Islands. 5s. 
