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NEW PLANTS. 
NEW ANyCCTOCHILUS. 
The following four new species are very striking and attractive kinds of this 
interesting family. 
A. MAQNIFICA. 
Leaves lanceolate acuminate, five inches long and about ono and a half in width, 
with broad golden stripe down the centre of each leaf, and the remaining portions 
of the leaves distinctly and heavily veined and netted with gold. Introduced fiom 
Borneo. 105s. each. 
A. SPECIOSTJS. 
Leaves four inches long and two broad, ovate oblong aciuninate, dark green 
satiny surface mottled with large irregular blotches of white or pale green. Intro- 
duced from Cortago, in Central America. 63s. each. 
A. SPECTABILIS. 
Leaves broadly ovate, between A. Lowi and A. setaceous; ground colour of the 
foliage dark olive, troversed or netted with golden veins of a pink hue. Introduced 
from Borneo. 105s. each. 
A. ZEBBINUS. 
Leaves ovate lanceolate, about two inches long and three-fourths of an inch broad, 
of a deep velvety olive green, marked with three or sometimes five distinct longi- 
tudinal golden-coloured lustrous stripes, representing the principal veins. Introduced 
from India. 105s. each. 
CLEEODENDRON BALFOITRI. 
An exceedingly beautiful stove climber, throe times handsomer than C. Thompsons 
foliage dark green, smooth oblong-ovate ; flowers produced in immensely largo and 
dense dichotomous cymes, pure white calyx of immense size, and bright scarlet 
corolla. 31s. 6d. 
ARAUCARIA RULEII. 
This truly noble plant was discovered and introduced from Port MoUe, by Mr. 
W . Duncan, who thus speaks of it ; — “ Although the nearest approach in appearance 
to A. Xuleii is A. imbricata, the latter is not for one moment to be compared with 
the grandeur of the former, being without exception the grandest and most 
beautiful tree at present existing on the face of the whole earth. Only imagine,” 
he adds, "A. Ruleii growing to the height of about 60 feet, and 30 feet in diameter, 
with six times the number of branches of A. imbricata^ but of a more rigid and 
tabular form, forking in all directions at equidistances in the most symmetiical 
