NEW COLEUS. 
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SHRUBBY GLOXINIA "INSIGNIS.” 
This distinct variety produces its flowers during the autumn and winter ; colour bluish lilac, 
marked with a large crimson blotch at the base of the tube. Is. 6d. 
GLOXINIA MACULATA ROSEA CHIRITIFORMIS. 
This novel hybrid will prove quite an acquisition, for it blooms during the whole of the winter. 
Its foliage is very beautiful, of a bronzy amaranth, and its flowery which are produced abundantly, 
arc of a beautiful bright rose, with a bluish tint. 2s. 6rf. and 3s. Gd. 
GLOXINIA MACULATA SCEPTRUM. 
A magnificent hybrid, with extra large erect foliage. It produces rigid terminal clusters of 
flowers, exceeding 20 inches in height, which bear majestically its large clear lilac well-formed 
blooms. The leaves are cordate and pinked. 2s. Gd. 
NEW COLEUS. 
Mr. W. B. has raised, by careful fertilisation, a large number of handsome and 
distinct varieties, which are of the most diversified character. In some the leaves are 
60 strikingly cut or serrated as to give them a fringed appearance, while, in 
contrast to this, others are almost smooth. The colours are of the richest description, 
embracing in the different varieties many shades of glowing red and rich dark 
crimson ; some shot with purple on a rosy leaf, others blotched with crimson on a 
green ground, while others, again, have, green leaves margined with crimson, and, 
vice versa, crimson margined with green, and some are blotched with crimson on an 
olive ground. The leaves of some of the varieties are quite flat, while others are of 
the old Verschaffeltii shape. They present, moreover, a great variety in the colour of 
the stems, being respectively green, crimson, and purple. 
The utility of the Coleus for ornamental purposes, whether for bedding or for 
decorations where coloured-leaved plants are desired, is so well known, and they are 
grown so easily, and make such fine specimens in so short a time, that the merit of 
the varieties now offered can scarcely be over-estimated. 
For New Varieties offered for the first time, see page 7. 
ACHILLES, one of tho fringed varieties, and a very handsome one. The colour is a rich reddish 
brown, margined with green, and more or less mottled with green towards the base. Is. 
ACIS, a beautiful bright-coloured sort, with flat ovate-orenate leaves, of a bright bronzy magenta, 
with a gold beaded edge. It oombinos the purplish rose tint soon in Princess of Wales with the 
bright golden border of Queen Victoria, One of the best, and of remarkably neat habit. Ir. 
AJAX, a variety with fringe-toothed leaves, which are of a bronzy crimson, traversed by a few 
purple veins, and everywhere elegantly edged with yellow. This is remarkably handsome, and 
the finest variety of Coleus which has yet been raised. If. Gd. 
AMBASSADOB, this variety has very deeply tocthed and fringed leaves, of a rich bronzy crimson 
margined with yellow. If. Gd. 
ATROPUBPITBEUS, this is a bronzy variety of Blumci, with pale green stems, and small flat 
lozenge-shaped leaves, which are entirely of a bronzy red, except that just the very tips of the 
marginal teeth are of a yellow green, not always at first apparent. If. 
BARON, a variety with elongated frilled leaves of a deep maroon, shaded with dark brown purple, 
the tips of the teeth and the base of the leaf being bronzy green ; tho stems purplish. If. 
BEAUTY, rich velvety purple, margined with pale green ; stem green, mottled with purple ; very 
distinct and attractive. If. 
BRILLIANT, rich reddish crimson, veined with purple and broadly margined with bright golden 
yellow; tho margins blotched with rich crimson. If. Gd. 
CHANCELLOR, distinct, with ovate coarsely crenato-serrate leaves, having the centre covered 
by a broad bronzy patch breaking outwards at tho margin, and picked ont by purple ribs and 
veins ; it has a broad green irregular border, and tho extreme margins of the teeth are brown. 
The whole surface is furnished with scattered purple freckles. If. 
CHARM, a fine showy variety, with rich chocolate brown leaves, margined with green ; stem 
reddish purple. If. 
