NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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PENTAPETES PHCENICEA. 
Flowers five-potaled, axillary, drooping, on short podunoles, saucer-shaped, with projecting 
stamens, from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, of a coppery scarlet, a goed deal 
resembling these of some of the large-flowered red varieties of Anagallis. These flowers are very 
freely produced, even on young plants. It is a native of the East Indies. Zs. 6d. 
PENTAPETES PHCENICEA ALBA. 
In general character similar to the preceding, but with white flowers. Zs. Gd. 
PEPEROMIA ARGENTEA. 
A pretty little silvery wax-like plant, introduced from South America, easily cultivated, and, 
being small and compact growing, quite an acquisition. 3«. Gd. 
PEPEROMIA ARGYREA, 2j. 6rf. and Zs. Gd. 
„ „ ROBtrSTA, 2i. Gd. 
„ MACULOSA, 2s. Gd. 
PHILODENDRON DISCOLOR, 3s. 6rf. 
„ RADIATUM, 5s. 
PEPEROMIA ARIPOLIA, 2s. Gd. 
„ LESOHENAULTIANA, 2s. Gd. 
„ VERSCHAPEELTII, 5s. 
PHILODENDRON Bl PINNATIFIDUM. 
An ornamental species from Brazil, requiring only an intermediate house or cool stove ; indeed, 
it is a plant so easily grown, as to be admirably adapted for cultivating in the rooms of a dwelling 
house. Its leaves attain a length of about 2 feet by in breadth ; they arc of a bright green, and 
bipinnatifldly divided, and rendered handsome by this character. 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
PHILODENDRON CRINIPES, 3s. 6<f. and os. 
, , PERTUSUM, 1 0s.6(f . and 1 5s. 
PHILODENDRON LINDENIANUM. 
This Philodendron has heart-shaped leaves of delicate satiny green, shaded with metallic olive 
colour on the upper surface, the under part pale green, ornamented with bands of maroon. The 
young leaves are of a bright chamois colour, and the maroon bands of the under parts penetrate 
through to the upper, so that the appearance of the plants produces a glistening and indescribable 
eSect. One of the most brilliant introductions of our epoch. It was found in the low and damp 
forests in the Republic of Ecuador. 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
PEPINIA APHELANDR-ffiPLORA, 1 
guinea 
PILEA MUSCOSA, “ The Artillery Plant,” 
Is. Gd. 
PINCENECTICIA TUBERCULATA, 15s. 
PLUMBAGO COCCINEA SUPERBA, 2s. 6d. 
PLATYMISCIUM 
PIPERS, of sorts, Is. Cd. and 2s. Gd. 
PITCAIRNEA DASYLIRIOIDES, 7s. Gd. 
„ TABULiEFORMIS, 2s. Gd. 
and 3s. Gd. 
PLUMBAGO ROSEA, 2s. Gd. 
POLYSTACHYUM. 
A fine tropical tree, inhabiting Veragua in the Isthmus of Panama. It produces a beautiful hard 
wood, streaked black and red, and bears pinnate leaves, composed of from three to five ovate 
leaflets, and numerous short ovate racemes of smallish pea-shaped yellowish flowers. 7s. Gd. 
POINCIANA PULCHERRIMA. 
This is the celebrated “ Peacock’s Pride” of Barbadoes. 7s. Gd. 
POINCIANA REGIA. 
This is one of the most gorgeously beautiful flowering plants belonging to the Leguminosoe. 
7s, Gd. 
PSYCHOTRIA CYANOCOCCA. 
If one were to search the vegetable kingdom through, it would bo difficult to find any other 
plant which displays, either in its flowers, fruit, or seeds, such a beautiful ultramarine colour as is 
exhibited by the berries of this new species from Chontklcs, Nicaragua. In leaf there is scarcely 
anything to distinguish it from hundreds of congeners. The colour and size of the flowers is disap- 
pointing to the lovers of gay tints and large blossoms, but both are all the more calculated to prepare 
ns, as it were, for a surprise. As soon as the fruit begins to assume shape and substance, a tint is 
displayed which can be but imperfectly rendered by the Greek term cyancus. In its native woods, 
the plant grows as underwood, and is loaded throughout the winter with large blue berries, as many 
as from 30 to 35 growing on one bunch. Its introducer was Dr. Seemann, who also vouches for the 
plant being absolutely new to science. 15s. 
PSYCHOTRIA CHONTALENSIS. 
“I now beg to forward to you a second species of Psycliotria,” wrote Dr. Seemann to Mr. Bull 
from Central America, “ and in doing so I must in the first instance endeavour to disabuse your mind 
