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NEW PLANTS. 
BIGNONIA ROEZLIANA. 
An exceedingly bandsome slender-growing stove climber, remarkable for the ricb tints displayed 
upon the younger leaves. It forms a swollen woody stem or rootstock, from which issues the 
slender climbing growths, furnished with opposite petiolato loaves, which in the lower parts of tho 
plant are entire, bnt on the upper parts become bij agate, with a triild tendril, dho loaves aro variable 
in form, from ovate to ovate-lanceolate, the margins entire or sot with a fewirregular teeth ; they are 
regularly reticulated, the costa and primary veins more strongly, with silvery grey, tho ground 
colour in the mature leaves being green, but in tho younger stages suffused with a rich lustrous 
violaceous tint, which renders them exceedingly beautiful. The under surface is of a rich purple. 
Scarcely anything can exceed tho beautiful colours of this plant when pushing its young growth. 
It has been sent to this country from Now Grenada by M. Roezl, and is of easy culture in an ordi- 
nary stove. 15«. 
CAMPSIDIUM (TECOMA) VALDIVIANA. 
This beautiful Bignouiad is a native of Chili. It is a very graceful greenhouse climber, with 
pinnate leaves, and produces abundant racemes of handsome orange coloured blossoms. This plant 
has no rooting branches, nor is it furnished with tendrils like most climbing species peculiar to 
America, but seems to be twining like Pandorea. Occurring in high southern latitudes, there is 
every reason to believe that it may prove hardy in the southern parts of England. Ts. Gd. 
CURCULIGO RECURVATA STRIATA. 
This remarkably handsome variety of a well-known and exceedingly ornamental stove perennial 
was awarded a First Class Certificate by tho Floral Committee of the Hoyal Horticultural Society on 
the 2nd of November last. It has the same long-stalked spreading lanceolate longitudinally plaited 
leaves as the parent, but differs in being marked with a distinct and effective central band of pure 
white, the back of the petiole being also whitish. It is a most telling decorative plant, on account of 
its bold and spreading habit. 3 guineas. 
DRACONTIUM ELATUM. 
This Aroid will not vie in size with Godwinin gif/as, but is very much like it in aspect, as hand- 
some if the element of size bo disregarded, closely allied to it in the construction of its flowers, and 
on botanical grounds equally interesting. The leaf stalks are from 5 to G feet in length, covered by 
an epidermis which is smooth and pinkish above, but from the middle downwards is marked by 
small, scattered, conical asperities, and wavy bands or blotches of a purplish colour, mottled with 
white. The leaf blades spread horizontally, measuring from 3 to 4 feet across, dark green above, 
paler beneath, and perfectly smooth. The flower spatbe, which is produced simultaneously with 
the leaves, is erect, boat-shaped, and leathery, of a purplish brown colour on the exterior, and rich 
purple in the interior. The spadix is erect, about 2 inches long, and densely covered with 
hermaphrodite flowers. The plant has been introduced from Western Tropical Africa. 15^. 
ERYTHRINA COMPACTA. 
This magnificent variety is the best and most useful in every respect of all the Erythrinas. It is 
of compact bushy growth, producing most profusely its splendid attractive bunches of corahlike 
blossoms. It is a variety of American origin, and has been introduced to this country by Mr. R. 
Buist, of Philadelphia. It will be found effective for sub-tropical gardening, and is a desirable plant 
for most decorative purposes, as it blooms very freely in quite a small state. 7«. 6d. 
FICUS ELEGANS. 
A free-growing ornamental stove plant, introduced from Java, the stem of which is covered with 
soR velvety hairs, as also are tho leafstalks. The leaves are ample, cordate-ovate, or rarely lobed, 
nearly or quite 2 feet long, on stout petioles 8 to 10 inches long, thin and herbaceous in texture 
when yonng, becoming firm and papery when mature, dark green and hairy above, with tho principal 
ribs pallid and densely covered beneath with cobwebby white hairs, which clothe tho surface so as 
to give it a silvery hue ; the margin is repandly toothed. A distinct plant, of noble aspect from the 
spread of its leaves, and ornamental on account of their white under suriace. li guinea. 
GASTRONEMA SANGUINEUM FLAMMEUM. 
This beautiful dwarf-growing Amaryllidaceous plant, imported from South Africa under the namo 
of Valhtajl'-mmeu, is evidently a near ally of Gastronema sanguineum from the same country. It is, 
however, a well-marked variety, generally producing two-flowered instead of single-flowered scapes, 
and having a more roseate less sanguineous hue in the flowers. Tho dark brown ovate bulb has a 
long narrow neck, from which issue the flower scape, and the plane erect linear-lanceolate acute 
dark green leaves, which taper gradually into a stalk at the base. The flowers are of a lovely rosy 
carmine hue, decurved, funnel-shaped, with a recurved limb, tho striped interior of the tube being 
