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NEW PLANTS. 
MUSA AFRICANA. 
This fine dwarf-habited species of Musa has been imported from Angola, through the intervene 
tion of Dr. Welwitsch. The leaves are oblong, petiolate, in the young plant about 3 feet long, 
spreading, of a bright green colour, the petiole purplish, with a narrow purple margin. The 
pseudo-stems are also flushed with a purplish tinge, which is continued along the back of the 
prominent mid-rib. In its sturdy habit, it appears likely to become a rival to the deservedly 
popular u^usa Emcte, li guinea. 
MUSA ASSAMICA. 
This is a peculiarly dwarf-habited and elegant species, and has been imported from Upper Assam.- 
The slender pseudo-stems are about a foot and a half high, green, bearing a crowded tufoof several 
elliptic lanceolate leaves, which are stalked, about a foot in length, remarkably unequal-sided at the 
base, acute at the apex, and running out into a slender tendril-like point. The leaves are green, 
with a narrow purple border. It will make a good plant for table decoration, on account of its- 
exotic aspect and moderate size and stature. I5s. each j G guineas per dozen. 
ONCIDIUM CRYPTOCOPIS. 
The flowers of this interesting novelty are fully as large as those of the now well-known Onciditm. 
setv'attan. They are chestnut brown, with yellow streaks, and a yellow margin around the crisped 
and toothletted sepals and petals. The superior petal has a long claw, with two auricles at its 
base. The lower petals have very short and broad claws. The lip is highly curious, having 
triangular lacinise of a purplish brown colour, with a proclive anterior part, and many toothlcts on 
the posterior side. The claw of the lip is whitish flesh colour, and its border is sulphur yellow. 
Its wings are purplish brown, and under the stigmatic hollow there are two swordblade-like 
laminae — hence the name. Figured in the Botanical MagazinCy Tab. 5,858. 2 guineas. 
PANDANUS FURCATUS. 
This fine ornamental stove plant is furnished with spirally three-ranked leaves of a bright green 
colour, broadish, and very much acuminated, and armed both on the margins and on the keel with 
sharp spines, the lower of which are curved and those near the point straight, greenish at first, and 
becoming brown as they mature. In the young state the plants are very ornamental, and are of 
a light bright green colour. It is a species which is spread over India and the Indian Archipelago, 
the Indian form (there called “ Korr”) being abundant on the Himalayas. The plants now offered 
are the Javanese form, which differs from the Indian in the shape of its fruit. The name 
alludes to the little forked spine with which the drupes are crowned. This and the following have 
been occasionally in commerce before, but very rarely to be met with, and then only at a high 
price. 7s. 6<f. each ; £3 per dozen. 
PANDANUS LAIS. 
The fine ornamental character of the Screw Pines is well known to growers of fine-foliaged 
stove plants ; indeed, in the younger stages of growth, and up to a certain convenient size, there aro 
few more ornamental plants to be found in our stoves. The plant here offered is considered by 
botanists as a form or variety of P. J'urcatuSy but differs in producing racemose instead of solitary 
fruits. The young plants, raised from seeds imported from Java, while bearing considerable 
resemblance to P. furcatns, and equally ornamental, differ in being of a more slender habit, and in 
having the leaves more tapered towards the base. In both varieties the mature leaves are some- 
what glaucous beneath. 7«. each ; £3 per dozen. 
SYNGONIUM ALBO-LINEATUM. 
A climbing Arad from Central America, producing slender rooting stems, which are green, and 
boar at intervals the pedunculate pedatifid leaves, which are of a bright green colour, marked 
along the central rib, and sometimes also along the course of the principal veins, with a greyish or 
silvery hue. It is well adapted for decorating pillars, or shady walls in damp stoves, especially in 
cases where a picturesque distribution of the plants is attempted. 7s, (dd, 
TACSONIA TOMENTOSA SPECIOSA. 
This plant is a native of New Grenada ; it cannot be too highly recommended as a useful free- 
growing greenhouse climber, with clear rosy red or carnation coloured flowers. The branches are 
slightly angular, and downy, at least when young. The leaves are smooth and shining above, downy 
beneath, and deeply divided into three oblong, lanceolate, serrated lobes, the serratures being 
hooked. The flower tube is cylindrical, distended at the base, green, and 3 to 4 inches long ; the 
sepals externally green, internally red ; the petals, which are as long as the sepals, are of a puio» 
rosy red colour, 5 j, 
