NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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UROSPATHAS. 
This is an entirely new 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 
fantastic foliage. Two of the varieties were exhibited and comprised in the 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 Royal Horticultural, Royal 
Botanic, and Crystal Palace Exhibitions. To give a complete notion of their character, the 
annexed description of them is quoted from the Gardeners’ Chronicle : — 
“ Passing by some new Marantas, I come to a olass of plants said to be new to science — the genus 
Urospatha, 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 loaf 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 ; in their present state not large, 
but probably they are not nearly so quick-growing as tho Caladiums, the more especially as they 
are loaves 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 onlargod after reoeding 
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 be by a double channel and a reversed outlet.” 
UROSPATHA ELEGANS. 
One of a group of singular and grotesque-looking stove perennials, with persistent mottled arrow- 
shaped leaves. In this the basal lobes of the leaf are elongate and divergent, and the colour is 
green, marked with dull pale roseate blotches, longitudinally disposed and irregularly confluent. 
Pi 'ice 7 s. 6d. } 10$. Gd. y and 15$. each . 
UROSPATHA GRANDIS. 
A very ourious and singular-looking stove perennial, with creeping rhizomes, and arrow-shaped 
leaves, so deeply lobed from the baso with divergent lobes as to assume the figure of the letter V ; 
they are of a pale yellow green, with somewhat darker coloured veins. 
Price 7s. 6 d., 10s. 6 d., and 15s. each. 
UROSPATHA PICTURATA. 
A singular-looking stove perennial, having a creeping rhizome and arrow-shaped leaves, with 
the basal lobes erect, and longer than the anterior one ; they are green, with a bronzy tinge, more 
evident in the young state, and are mottled over with confluent but scattered blotches of grey. 
Price 7s. 6d., 10$. 6d., and 15$. each. 
UROSPATHA SPECTABILIS. 
A grotesque and peculiar-looking stove perennial, with creeping rhizomes and arrow-shaped 
leaves, having long divergent basal lobes about one -third longer than the anterior one ; they are 
curiously mottled over the greater part of their surface with two or three shades of yellowish and 
greyish green, the edges and interspaces being deep green. 
Price 7s. Gd.> 10$. 6d. 3 and 15$. each. 
UROSPATHA SPLENDENS. 
A curious and grotesque ornamental stove perennial, with creeping rhizomes and arrow-shaped 
leaves, remarkable for the length of the basal lobes, which are nearly erect ; they are deep green, 
fretted nearly over the whole surface, except the margins, with rosy rod, amongst which the course 
of the smaller veins is marked out by fine, green, retioulated lines. 
Price 7s. 6 d. 9 10$. 6rf., and 15$. each. 
