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NEW, EAKE AND DESIEABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DKACiENA GOLDIEANA. 
One of tlie most magnificent omamental-foliagod plants ever introduced, and altogether unique 
in character and aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of erect habit, 
the leaves being marbled and irregularly banded with dark green and silver-grey in alteniate 
straight or furcate transverse bands, the colours being about equally distributed. The back of 
the imfoldod leaves is a pale reddisli purple or wine colour, and the stem where visible at the upper 
joints is of sui^ar hue. It is, without doubt, one of the most superb of ornamental stove 
plants, and indispensable in all first-class collections. Tills beautiful species has been frequently 
shown in Mr. W. B.’s winning collections of New Plants. 7«. 6U. and 10«. Gd. 
DEAC.ENA GOIDIEANA. 
