NEW, EAEE AND DESIEABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS MINIATUS SEMI-PLENUS. 
This rcmarkiibly showy stove plant has firm, almost leathery, ovate leaves, which are coarsely 
toothed, and brilliant fiowers of a vermilion scarlet colour, darker towards the base of the petals. 
Tho flowers are semi-double, the petals very much waved and rcciu’ved, forming an iiregidar 
undulated mass four inches across, from which the partially pctaloid staminal columu projects two 
inches. Tho brilliant and attractive flowers are remarkable for the absence of fonnality, the shape 
being wild, and abounding in fantastic curves, but nevertheless they are remarkably handsome. It 
has been imported from the South Sea Islands. 3s. Gd. 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS VIVICANS. 
A fine free-flowering stove plant of vigorous habit, with ovate stalked leaves, and remarkably 
large flowei's, four and a half to five inches in diameter, full double, tho centre being completely 
filled up with broad convolute petals, having tufts of stamens intennixed. The colour is a brilliant 
crimson scarlet. It is a very showy variety, and was imported from the South Sea Islands, os. 
