NEW AND RARE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
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MUSA ENSETE. 
This is the grand Banana of Abyssinia. In growth it is one of the most striking and noble of 
ornamental plants, and it is without doubt one of the most effective for summer out-door gardening. 
It is so hardy that, planted in rich soil, it grows freely during the summer months in the open air, 
and requires to be wintered only in a cool house. Its immense leaves attain a length of 8 to 10 feet, 
and are of a beautiful dark green, the mid-rib being bright crimson, forming an admirable and 
striking contrast. It attains altogether an average growth of 12 to 15 feet in height. 
This splendid plant cannot be too strongly recommended, for it is also admirably adapted for 
conservatory decoration, and will be more extensively cultivated when it becomes better known. 
MTTTISIA DECUKRENS, 5s. 
MYKTtrS, of sorts. Is. and Is. Gd. 
NERINES, of sorts. Is. Gd. and 2s. 6rf. 
MYRSIPHYLLUM ASPARAGOIDES, 
7s. Gd, 
NERIUMS, of sorts, 2s. 6d. 
NIEREMBERGIA RIVULARIS. 
A perennial, very handsome, and of a trailing habit; its flowers are sessile, very large, of a 
yellowish white colour, elevated on a slender tube. Gd. 
ORANGE TREES. 
Fine healthy plants, in all sizes, from 15s., 1, 1§, 2, to 8 guineas each. 
PALMS, OF SORTS, vide Index. 
PANAX RULEI. 
A shrubby plant, furnished with opposite leaves, on longish petioles. The leaves are trifoliolate, 
with ovate leaflets 2 to 3 inches long, the central one narrowed to a stalk-like base, and the two 
lateral ones sessile and unequal-sided. It is a 
obtained from Melbourne. 3s. 6<f. 
PASSIFLORA CCERTTLEA GRANDI- 
FLORA, 2s. Ctf. 
„ LOUDONI, 2s. 6rf. 
, , of sorts, ls.C(i.,2s. 6i2.,and 3s.6rf . 
PHILESIA BUXIFOLIA, 5s. and 7s. 6(2. 
distinct free-growing evergreen plant, and was 
PASSIFLORA EDITLIS, 2s. Gd. 
„ IMPERATRIOE EUGENIE, 
2s. Gd. 
PHCENOCOMA PROLIFERA BARNESII, 
2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
PHORMIUM COLENSOI VARIEGATUM. 
This very beautiful plant has narrowish erect pointed leaves, scarcely an inch in width, elegantly 
banded at the margin with one or sometimes two narrow stripes of creamy white. It has the same 
distichous mode of growth as P. ienax^ but is altogether a smaller and more elegant plant, while 
its more erect habit and narrower leaves give it quite a distinct appearance from that of the 
variegated Phormium tenacn. The leaves grow about 3 feet high, and are of a dark green in the 
central portion, with a narrow coloured margin. The flowering scape grows from 3 to 6 feet high, 
and the flowers are described as being an inch and a half long, with their inner segments acuminate 
and reflexed. The plant is a native of New Zealand, and is a free-growing greenhouse perennial. 
4 guineas. 
PHORMITTM TENAX, highly ornamental, strong plants, Zs. Gd., 5$., 7s. Gd., IGs. Gd., and 155. 
PHORMIUM TENAX VARIEGATUM. 
This is a finely variegated form of the well-known Now Zealand Flax, The leaves are of the 
same size as the species, with conspicuous broad stripes of creamy white running out their whole 
length, and contrasting well with the light shining green ground colour. It is a truly noble plant, 
and is well adapted both for planting out in the flower garden and lawn, for pot culture, and for 
conservatory decoration. It is, moreover, one of our finest ornamental-leaved plants for exhibition. 
1^, 2, and 3 guineas. 
PIMELEA DECXJSSATA, Is. Gd. and 2s. Gd. \ PIMELEA KENDEBSONI, 2s.6i/. and 3s.6c2. 
„ NEIPPERGIANA,2s.6(^.&3s.6''A I » SPECTABILIS, 2s. 6(/.and 3s. GiZ. 
PITHECOLOBIUM PRUINOSUM. 
A beautiful woody leguminous plant, related to Inga and Calliandra, having the young branches, 
foliage, and inflorescence clothed with a rusty pubescence. The leaves are bipinnate, with oblong 
acuminate leaflets, and the flowers, with their long exserted white stamens, grow in globular umbels 
from tbo axils of the upper leaves. It is a native of Queensland. 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
