NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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SPHiEROGYNECINNAM:OMEA,3s.Or7.&5i. | SPHiEBOGYNE LATIPOLIA, 5s.&7s.ed. 
SPH/EROGYNE FERRUGINEA. 
An elegant stove shrub, introduced from South America. It has a terete stem, covered with a 
close felt of short coarse cinnamon coloured hairs, and furnished with opposite leaves, which are 
three-rihbod, with penninerved secondary rihs. They are of a shaded green on the upper surface, 
and paler beneath, and while in a young state are stained with rod. The leaves are shortly stalked 
elliptio-oblong in outline, wider above the centre, and shortly acuminate, the base being tapered 
beyond the source of the triple ribs. It is a fine bold-leaved stove plant, of moderate size. 7». Od. 
SPONDIAS OLIV^EFORMIS. 
A small tree, with bright green shining foliage and large terminal panicles, bearing red, ultimately 
dark purple fruit, which in shape resembles olives, and being used as a substitute for them, the tree 
is termed “ Aoeituno ” (i.e., Olivo) by the natives. It was discovered by Dr. Seemanu in New 
Segovia, Central America, and is a genuine evergreen, being found in full leaf at the height of the 
dry season, when all the surrounding vegetation was either leafless or burnt up. 2 guineas. 
SYNGONIUM WENDLANDII, 2s. Gd. I TRADESCANTIA REPENS VARIE- 
TRADESCANTIA REPENS VITTATA, 3s. Gd. \ GATA, 2s. Gd. 
TACSONIA BUCHANANI. 
This charming novelty, recently introduced from Panama, is of free and vigorous growth; the 
flowers are very large, of a beautiful bright shining red colour, and, being produced in the greatest 
profusion, give this plant such an etlective and showy appearance as will always cause it to be very 
desirable and useful as a stove climber. 2.s\ Crf., 3.?. Or/., and 5s. 
TERMINALIA ELEGANS. 
This exquisite foliage plant has been introduced from Madagascar; it is one that ranks foremost 
in the ornamental section. The leaves are lanceolate, trifoliatod, and elegantly reticulated, glossy, 
with bright rod mid-rib, and richly netted with dark veins on a bright green ground. 
To convey a familiar notion of this plant, it may be said to be somewhat like Pavetta borbonica, 
but with trifoliate leaves, which add materially to its beauty. 1 and If guineas. 
TINNEA -ffiTHIOPICA (the Violet-scented Tinnea), 2s. Gd. 
UROSPATHAS. 
This is an entirely now class of plants that has been introduced from Para. They have not yet 
bloomed in this country, pending which they are offered for their variegated, ornamental, and fan- 
tastic foliago. Two of the varieties were exhibited in the group of six New Plants with which 
Mr. William Bull won the First Prize at the London International Horticultural Exhibition, 
besides which, several of the varieties have obtained Certificates at the Boyal Horticultural, Royal 
Botanic, and Crystal Palace Exhibitions. To give a complete notion of their character, the annexed 
description of them is quoted from the Gardeiicrs* Chronicle : — 
“ Passing by some new Marantas, I come to a class of plants said to bo now to science — the genus 
TJrospatha, of which Mr. W. Bull has a large stock — the species not yet named. They have creeping 
rhizomes like some Ferns. There are hundreds of rhizomes starting into growth, and an odd plant 
in leaf here and there, just sufficient to give one an idea of their distinct aspect. The leaves are of 
a firm leathery texture, mostly fretted and spotted over with pink j in their present state not large, 
but probably they are not nearly so quick-gi’owing as the Caladiums, the more especially as they 
are leaves that remain on all through the winter. They are mostly of a singular sagittate form — 
those of one kind looking exactly like a cordate leaf that had been cut from its centre to the middle 
of each shoulder with a pair of scissors. In others the basal lobes become enlarged after receding 
from the apex of the petiole, and taper again into an acuminate point. The lobes in this and 
another species being much larger than the apical portion, seem to have the effect of causing the 
leaves to hang with the basal lobes downwards, so that if distillation takes place in this section of 
the Arum family, it will probably bo by a double channel and a reversed outlet.*’ 
XTROSPATHA GRANDIS, 7^. Qd. and lO^. Qd. 1 UROSPATHA SPECTABILIS, 7s.G-i. & 105.6rf. 
„ PICTXTRATA, 7s. Crf. & IQs. Qd \ „ SPLENDENS, 7^. Qd. & IQs. Gd- 
