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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
MUSS/ENDA LUTEOLA. 
A pretty plant, collected by Captain Grant in the rooky ;'avines of Gani and Madi. It forms a 
neat-growing shrub ; the bracts or floral leaves which accompany tho flowers are white j the oalyx- 
tnbo is nearly an inch long, and flowers terminally produced, yellow, with bright orange centre. 
2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
OPLISMENtJS IMBECILLUS VARIE- I PANICTTM: PLICATUM NIVEO-VIT- 
GATTJS, ]«., li. Gd., and 2«. Gd. I TATUM, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
PALMS, OF SORTS, vide Index. 
PANCRATIUM NOTATUM. 
In consequence of a largo importation of this useful free-flowering plant, Mr. Wiiliam Buil can 
ofier fine strong-blooming Amaryllis-like bulbs. Its showy white flowers are produced in clusters of 
9 to 12 on stiir erect scapes, the outer segments 3 to 4 inches long, with funnel-shaped centre crown 
upwards of an inch in diameter. Tho blossoms are deliciously fragrant. 2 j,’. Gd. each ; 24s. per doz. 
PANCRATIUM ELEGANS, 15s. | PANCRATIUM SPECIOSUM, 5s. 
PANDANUS DECORUS. 
A distinct-looking and elegant species from the high mountains of New Caledonia, where it is 
said to form a highly ornamental object, producing long narrow leaves. The young plants are of 
neat habit, furnished with bright green leaves, about balfan inch broad, the upper surface somewhat 
channelled, and having two slight ridges, which are spiny near the apex, tho lower surface having 
a spiny keel, and the margins being furnished with very small close-set pale-coloured spines, which 
render them saw-like. It appears to be a moderate-sized useful decorative plant. 1 guinea. 
PANDANUS FURCATUS, vide page 6. | PANDANUS LAIS, vide page 6. 
PANDANUS SPIRALIS. 
An exceedingly elegant decorative plant, partaking of the general character and appearance of 
P . elegantissimns, but with the leaves longer and narrower than in that plant. 10s. Gd. 
PARMENTIERA CEREIFERA, 
This is the celebrated “Candle Tree,” discovered in the valley of the River Chagres, Isthmus of 
Panama, by Dr. Seemann. It has opposite trifoliate loaves, and large white blossoms, which, in its 
native habitat, are given throughout the year, but are produced in the greatest abuudanoe daring 
the rainy season. As in most of the Crescentiacem, the flowers grow out of tho old wood ; tho fruit 
is fleshy, and the seeds very small, not larger than lentils. 7s. 6rf. 
PASSIFLORA ALATA, 2s. Gd. 
„ BUONAPARTEA, 2s. Gd. 
„ EDULIS, 2s. Gd. 
„ LAURIFOLIA,2s.6d.&3s.6d. 
„ MADONNA, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
„ QUADRANGULARIS,2s.Cd. 
PASSIFLORA BIJOU, 3s. Gd. and 6s. 
„ CARDINALIS, 2s. Gd. 
„ KERMESINA, 2s. Gd. 
„ LOUDONI, 2s. Gd. 
„ PRINCEPS (RACEMOSA), 
2s, Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
PASSIFLORA FULGENS, vide Tacsonia Buchanani. 
PASSIFLORA ARBOREA (GLAUCA). 
This extremely interesting plant was found near the edge of the Great Guayaquilian Plain, 
between Loxa and Santa de Bogota. The flowers are small, similar to those of an ordinary 
Passion Flower ; the fliamentous portion white, the centre orange. The fruit is oval, about the 
size of a pigeon’s egg, of a very pale yellow colour, but covered, from its earliest stage, with a 
beautiful glaucous bloom. This plant can bo cultivated in an ordinary stove, and, being found at an 
elevation of upwards of 6,000 feet above tho sea, it will doubtless also thrive well in a warm green* 
house. 15^. 
PASSIFLORA MACROCARPA. 
A froe-growing climber, introduced from the Rio Negro. Tho blossoms are very large, white 
and purple, but it possesses tho remarkable feature of giving fruit, which weigh each about eight 
pounds. 2s. Gd. and 3«. Gd. 
PASSIFLORA TRIFASCIATA. 
A charming ornamental foliaged climber, each loaf being intersected with throe distinct broad 
bands of rosy carmine, which in a young state are white, changing to rose. 
This beautiful variety is in reality a handsomely variogated-foliaged Passion Flower. 2s. Gd. & 3*. Gd, 
PAVETTA BORBONICA, 10». Gd. and 15s. | PHARUS VITTATUS, 7s. Gd. 
