NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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DIEFFENBACHIA WEIRI. 
This has been introduced by the Royal Horticultural Society from South America, through their 
collector, Mr. Weir, after whom it is named. It is of dwarf habit, foliage of a bright green colour, 
thickly blotched and spotted with palo yellow. This is probably the finest of all the Dieffenbachias, 
and can be recommended as a very ornamental-foliaged stove plant. 
Price 1 guinea each. 
DIOSCOREA AN/ECTOCHILUS. 
This remarkable and handsome species has been introduced from the Amazon ; it has broadly 
ovate-acuminate leaves, which, when mature, are of a dark olive green marbled with gold, with 
broad central golden band running through them ; the young leaves are plain bright green, and the 
remarkable variation is developed as they acquire age. 
Price 3s. 6 d., 5s., and 7s. 6 d. each. 
DIOSCOREA DISCOLOR VARIEGATA. 
A handsome variegated foliage olimber, with broad roundish heart-shaped leaves, having the 
rich mottled colouring of D. discolor, and a broad silver bar along the centre. 
Price 5s. and 7s. 6 d. each. 
DIPLADENIA (ECHITES) AMABILIS. 
A beautiful climber of neat habit, producing freely deep rosy crimson flowers of large size (4 to 
5 inches in diameter) and exquisite beauty ; fine for exhibition purposes. 
Price 2s. (id., 3s. (id., and 5s. each. 
DRAC/ENA FERREA VARIEGATA. 
This resembles D. ferrea in its habit, but the rich colouring of its foliage, which is variegated 
with bright rosy crimson, renders it one of the most beautiful decorative plants extant. 
Price 155. each. 
ECHITES RUBRO-VENOSA. 
Every one admired this gem at the great Exhibitions of Amsterdam and London, and every one 
affirmed that the admirable net-work which covers the leaves, yields to nothing but the most bril- 
liant Aneectochilus. This net-work is speckled with bright red (sometimes a golden yellow), and 
stands out conspicuously from the emerald green ground. It is an admirable plant. 
Price 5s., 7s. Gd., and 10.S. 6 d., each . 
ENCEPHALARTOS GRACILIS. 
This remarkably elegant greenhouse plant has been recently received from South Africa, and 
proves to be quite distinct from the species already in cultivation. In the largest plants which have 
been received, the stems are from 8 to 10 inches high, and about 8 inches in diameter; they are 
clothed in the upper part with close entangled pale brown woolly hair, resembling fine sponge, and 
show the remains of as many aa 30 fronds in a whorl. The fronds are erect, slender, 3 to 4 foot 
long, and 6 inches broad in the widest part, lineardanceolate in outline, pinnate, with the rachis 
rounded behind, and channelled on each side where the pinnae are set on. The pinnae are narrowly 
linear and mucronately pointed, set on at intervals of one-fourth of an inch, convex on the upper, 
concave on the lower surface, woolly as is the rachis, with white cobwebby hairs while young, the 
hairs becoming at length straightened and appressed. The lower pinnae gradually diminish into 
short mucronate points. 
It has received a First Class Certificate from the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. 
Plants with two fronds, 1^ guineas ; three fronds, 2 guineas ; fve fronds, 4 guineas each. 
