NEW, llAEE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS 
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HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS FULGIDUS. 
Tliis magrnificent variety, which was obtained from the South Sea Islands, is remarkable alike 
for the size, colour and marking of its brilliant flowers. The leaves are broadly ovate, with coarsely 
serrated margins. The flowers are of very largo size (five inches in diameter), composed of fine 
broad, rounded and beautifully undulated petals, of an intense carmine scarlet, paler and somewhat 
rosy-tinted towards the base, where on each petal is an oblong blotch of deep crimson, forming a 
blunt-rayed star in the centre of the flower. It is one of the finest varieties yet introduced. 3«. 6rf. 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS KERMESINUS. 
A grand flowering stove jAant, with the foliage and general habit of other varieties of this 
extremely ornamental species. The flowers are large and showy, full double, the petals broad, 
rounded, and undidated, the three or four outer series reflexed, the central ones erect, the innermost 
consisting of the transfonned column developed into numerous petaliferous lobes bearing stamens on 
their margins. The colour is a fine rich carmine crimson. The plant has been imported from tho 
South Sea Islands. 5s. 
