NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DIPLADENIA (ECHITES) AMCENA. 
This beautiful variety is a most valuable acquisition amongst stove plants. The flowers are of a 
lovely pink colour, sulfused with rose, somewhat resembling D. splendens, but in every respect a 
great improvement on that variety, being of superior form, the lobes being stiflf and round instead 
of refiezed and pointed. It is as free a bloomer as D. aviubilia, and has better foliage than that 
variety. 3s. 3d., 5s., and 7s. Gd. 
DIPLADENIA (ECHITES) MARTIANA. 
This plant has been distributed and is generally known under the name of D. crassinoda, which, 
it has recently been ascertained, belongs to a totally distinct species. 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
DISTIACANTHUS SCARLATINUS. 
A magnificent Bromeliaceous plant, introduced from the borders of the Amazon. The central 
leaves are of a most intense vivid scarlet colour. 1 J guinea. 
DORSTENIA ARGENTATA. 
This very pretty perennial, which is a native of Bahia, in Brazil, has been figured in the Botanical 
Magazine (Tab. 5,795). It is of erect habit, with a downy purplish stem, furnished with elliptic or 
oblong-lanoeolate leaves, 8 to 5 inches long, dark green at the margins, and having a broad silvery 
central band, which is irregularly extended towards the margin of the leaf. 3s. Gd. 
DRACsENA ALBICANS. 
A perfectly distinct plant, furnished with long narrow pointed leaves, about 2 inches broad, and 
narrowing into a long channelled petiole. The colour is bright green, with a pale green or whitish 
border, breaking out in well-grown matured plants into a conspicuous white variegation. The leaf 
stalks are green. It is a plant of very elegant habit, and has been imported from the South Sea 
Islands. 1 guinea. i 
DRAC/ENA ANGUSTA. 
A slender-growing ornamental plant, with narrow arching leaves, about an inch wide, narrowed 
and compressed at the base into a purplish stalk ; they are of a dull dark green above, tinted with 
purple beneath, and become slightly bronzed in age. The plant has been imported from the South 
Sea Islands. 1 guinea. 
DBAC-fflNA ARBOREA, 3s. fid. and 5s. | DRACAENA BRASILIENSIS, 3s. fid. and 5s. 
DRAC/ENA CHELSONI. 
This remarkably fine variety, from the South Sea Islands, is of bold free growth; its leaves are 
large and striking, the ground colour being a glossy dark green, almost black, which, as the plant 
attains size, becomes mottled and suffused with deep crimson, a broad liuo of the same colour bor* 
dering the leaves on each side. guinea. 
DRAC/ENA CONCINNA. 
A neat-growing species, with the same dwarf compact habit and narrow foliage as D. pulckella^ 
but in this the leaves are of a deep sombre green with purplish red margins, while the contracted 
stalk-like base is also green with a slight purplish tinge. It was imported from the ISouth Sea 
Islands, and will make a useful small-growing decorative plant. 
DRAC/ENA EXCELSA. 
A very beautiful South Sea Island plant, of stout habit, with erect spreading leaves, which are 
broadly oblong and acute, and narrowed at the base into a stalk. The colour is a rich bronzy red- 
dish brown, with a fine glaucous bloom beneath. Like D. tenninalia and others, the plants in the 
mature stage break into colour, and become distinctly marked at the margin, or on other parts of 
the leaf surface, with irregular bands of a delicate rosy red hue, while the stalks and stem are of a 
purplish red. guinea. 
DBACi3aNA COOPERI, Zs. Gd., 5j., and 7s. Gd. 1 DRAC-ffiNA CONaESTA(^ub^a),25.6^^.& Zs.Gd, 
„ DRACO, 7s. Crf. I „ FERREA, 2jf. tW. and Zs. Gd. 
DRAC/ENA FERREA VARIEGATA. 
This resembles D. ferrea in its habit, but the richer colouring of its foliage, which is variegated 
with bright rosy crimson, renders it one of the most beautiful decorative plants extant. Gd., 
7s. Gd,, and 10«. 6^^. 
