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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
ANTIGONON LEPTOPUS. 
“ The first time I saw this plant,” writes Dr. Seemann (vide Gardener.^ ChronioU, June 20th 1868) 
» was in the autumn of 1848, when making a botanical excursion from Mazatlan, on the West Coast 
of Mexico • and in aletter addressed to the late Sir W. J. Hooker (published m Iloohtv s Journal and 
Sen, Mucdlann page 149), I wrote, full of enthusiasm, ‘The finest flower wo saw during thejourney 
was your Antiqmon lrptopu>. It covered nearly every bush, and the deep rose coloured Wossoms 
were^so abundLt that scarcely a leaf could be seen.’ In that part of Mexico where I first met with 
the plant, the natives term it ‘ Kosa de Mayito and in Nicaragua ‘ 
Eose Of course, when looking closely at the s/.apo of the flowers, there is not the faintest resem 
blance to a Rose ; but at a distance, a comparison with the Queen 
itself, the outer three sepals being of a beautiful rose colour, the centre of a “"f 
flowers, arranged in racemes and panicles, appear in the greatest profusion, and ‘he “ 
if a large rose coloured sheet had been spread over them-a sight never to be forgotten. The 
Iflowers, as those of most Polygonace®, last for some weeks.' 6s. and 7s. 6d. 
APHELANDBA CRISTATA, 2s. 6d. 
liEOPOLDII, 2s.6(f. cfe3».6rf. 
POE.TEANA, 2s.6d. & 3s.6d. 
ABISTOLOCHIA DUCHABTBEI, lOs. 6d. 
and 15^. 
,, TBICATTDATA, 7s. 6d. 
and lOx. 6if. 
APHELANDBA AHBANTIACA, 2s. dd. 
BOEZLII,3x.6<f. 
ABDISIA 'WALLICHII, 5s. 
ABDISIAS, of sorts, 1.?. 6rf. and 2s. Sd. 
ABISTOLOCHIA INDIO A, 2i. Gd. 
„ LABIOSA, 6s. & 7s. Gd. 
TBILOBATA, 2s.Cd. & 3s.6if. 
ARISTOLOCHIA ORNITHOCEPHALA. 
A climber of remarkable character; the blossoms are very large, and 
structure Imaginable. To render any description of it at all intelligible, it may bo said to have the 
Jeadtf a hal and the beak of a heron, with the wattles of the 
grey, netted with brown ; the head of the same colour, veined, whilst the beak is grey. 5s. 
ARISTOLOCHIA RINGENS. 
Our first knowledge of this remarkable plant was derived from a beautiful plate of it given in the 
5 , 700 , smee the appearance of which, Mr. W. B. has imported it from 
^TtlTs genus there are to be observed two distinct groups, presenting features of considerable 
importance to the >>orticulturisfi ^In o^^^^ 
IreVoduLd^'TZ o3 section the flowers are developed on the young shoots, and this quality 
may be considered a great advantage, because the flowers are more readi y produced. 
To this latter free-flowertng group the present plant belongs. It is o s en ei wining , 
bright green, glabrous, roundish-reniform foliage. The blossoms are extremely g^^sque, 7 to 10 
incLsfong, pfle green, marbled and reticulated with black purple. The penan* has an obovoid 
ventricose sac two inches and a half long, which is woolly inside ; tube ascending 
the sac, terete, dividing into two very long lips, the upper of which (lower as the 
oblong-lanceolate, recurved, and hairy inside below the middle, while 
° j orbicular or almost reuiform limb. In Hew tirenaaa its 
recurved margins, and expanding into an ornicuiai 
roots are esteemed as an antidote for snake bites. 7s. 6 . an s. 
ABTOCABPtrS INCISA, J6s. and 1 guinea 
ATACCIA CBISTATA, 10s. Gd. and 15s. 
BAMBUSA MAXIMA, 6s. 
BABLEBIA LHPULINA, 7s. Gd. 
BAUHINIAS, of sorts, 3s. Gd. and 6s. 
BEGONIAS, vide Index. 
BERTOLONIA GUTTATA. 
A very fine variegated Melastomad, received from Madagascar, although its native habitat is 
probably Brazil. Its ovate leaves, which exceed 5 inches in length by 3 in breadth, are of a dark 
olive green colour, profusely marked with lines of beautiful rose coloured spots, which present a 
charming contrast. 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
BEBTOLONIA GUTTATA ALBA, vide BEBTOLONIA MABMOBEA, 2s. 6d. & 3s. Gd. 
ALBA, vide 
page 3 
,, SPLENDENS, 
vide page 3 
„ SUPEBBA, 
vide page 3 
MABGABITACEA SU- 
PEBBA, 16s. 
PUBESCENS, 2s. Gd. and 
3s. 6<f. 
PBIMUL.ffiFLOBA — see 
Monolena privndajlora. 
PUNCTATA, vide page 3. 
