NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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SANCHEZIA NOBILIS VARIEGATA. 
A very handsome plant for exhibition purposes ; the leaves, which are from 12 to 15 inches long, 
are of the richest green, whilst the veins and margin are a brilliant yellow, which contrast produces 
a most striking effeot. 
Price 10s. Gd. and 15s. each. 
SAURAUJA SARAPIGIENSIS. 
This handsome-foliaged plant is an introduction from Costa Rica. It produces leaves 20 inches 
long by 9 wide, which when young are of a pleasant reddish tint, and the mid-rib in all the leaves is 
of a bright red, which latter contrasts prettily with the green leaves. 
Price 7s. Gd. each . 
SAMYDA NOBILIS. 
An extremely handsome ornamental plant, with large dark green elliptic-lanceolate leaves, which 
are upwards of a foot in length, and about half as much in breadth, serrated on the margin and 
woolly beneath ; the stem is covered with a light brown puberescence, the leaves are pendulous, 
and being so largo they give to the plant a rich attractive character. 
It has been introduced from the Province of Saint Catherine, Brazil. 
Price 1$ guineas each. 
SELAGINELLA MERTENSI ALBO VARIEGATA. 
Another pretty variegated kind. Tts very conspicuous white blotches, contrasted with the green, 
appear at a short distanoe as if speckled with silver, or half covered with snow flakes. 
Price Is. 6 d. and 2s. Gd. each. 
SIPHOCAMPYLUS HUMBOLDT! ANUS (FULGENS). 
This free-flowering effective plant has boon introduced from South America, and is a great 
acquisition to our stoves, for it perpetuates its showy blossoms nearly throughout the yoar ; it is of 
oompact habit, foliage dark green, ovate-acuminate, the blossoms rich orange scarlet with yellow 
throat. 
Being such a free bloomer, and producing its attractive flowers over such a lengthened period, it 
is a most desirable decorative plant ; added to which, its flowers are extremoly useful for bouquets. 
Price 3s. Gd., 5s., and 7s. Gd. each. 
SMILAX MACROPHYLLA MACULATA. 
A variegated-foliaged climber, with largo ovate-acuminate loaves, which are bright green, spotted 
and maculated with white. 
It has been introduced from Mexico, and is of easy culture. 
Price 5s. each. 
SOLANUM ANTHROPOPHAGORUM. 
A bushy shrub, with a dark glossy foliage, and berries of the shape and colour of tomatoes. This 
fruit has a faint aromatic smell, and is occasionally prepared like tomato sauce. 
Price 7s. Gd. each. 
SPH/EROGYNE CINNAMOMEA. 
An ornamontal plant, introduced from Costa Rica, the aspect of which is really noble, for the 
leaves are about 1 1 feet long, by 9 inches broad. Its cultivation is easy, and it succeeds admirably 
in a stove. The specific name is derived from the cinnamon-like character and colour' of its stem, 
which makes a pleasing contrast to the massive light green foliage. 
Price 3.i. Gd. and os. each. 
