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NEW AND RARE BTOVE PLANTS. 
WILLS’ NEW PELARGONIUMS— confmued. 
FIREBRAND.— This variety has a very dwarf, compact style of growth ; the foliage is very handsome, 
of a bright yellow and bronze shade ; the zone is of a very striking reddish-brown colom-, and as the 
leaves become developed, the zone changes to a bright flame colour. It is a most distinct and beau- 
tiful variety. Price 1 guinea each. 
MODEL. — Flowers bright violet shaded cerise, of fine shape and substance, and borne in large trusses 
well above its unique foliage ; the leaf is deeply lobed, and of great substance j brown and chocolate 
zone on a yellow and green ground, with a distiuot margin of yeUow outside the zone. Price IJ 
guineas each. 
PERILLA. — Flowers of a bright orange-scarlet, borne in large trusses on stout footstalks weU above the 
foliage ; the leaves are very attractive, shewing a deep, broad, and well-defined zone, somewhat the 
colour of Perilla Nankinensis, on a magnificent yellow and green ground. No idea can be formed 
of the beauty of a mass of this most novel and striking bedding plant when the sun is shining upon 
it in its various stages of development ; it shows different shades of colour ; the young leaves 
are nearly scarlet and black ; those half developed, yellow and very dark maroon ; whilst those 
that are fully matured have a beautiful reddish tint, which, with the bright orange-scarlet flowers, 
give to the whole a most pleasing and effective appearance. The habit of the plant is free and 
vigorous, and each leaf is a perfect model of symmetry. Price IJ guineas each. 
Plants of the above will be exhibited at most of the forthcoming London and provincial Horticul- 
tural Exhibitions, when their superior merits wiU be readily distinguished from everything else in their 
several sections. Plants %oiU Oe ready for- sending out the iirst weeh in June, 
DALECHAMPIA ROEZLIANA ROSEA. 
Tliis attractive plant has been introduced from V era Cruz, Mexico. It differs from the great majority 
of its congeners in its ereet, not climbing, stem, and in its undivided leaves. 
The leaves are 5 to 9 inches long, 1 to 3 inches wide at the widest portion, are very shortly stalked, 
subcordate, obovate or spoon-shaped, tapering towards the base, acuminate at the apex, and smooth, or 
nearly so, on both surfaces. The peduncles are slender, thread-like, angular, slightly downy stalks, 2 to 
3 inches long ; they bear at the top two small ovate bracts, placed at the base of two large, broadly 
egg-shaped, acuminate, denticulate, rosy-pink floral leaves. Within those two latter are other smaller 
bracts, placed around and among the male and female flowers, some of them thick and club-shaped, and 
bearing at the top a fringe of short, yellow, waxy-looking threads, which give a singular appearance to 
the blossoms. 
The large rosy bracts recall those of BougainviUea, and wiU render the plant acceptable in om- 
stoves, and specially in bouquets and for pui-poses of table decoration. 
It blooms very freely, even on plants a few inches high ; moreover, it produces its flowers throughout 
the year, and especially so in the winter ; individually they last in beauty several weeks, owing to the 
persistent nature of the coloured bracts ; added to all these recommendations, it is sweet-scented. 
Doubtless it will prove the best plant of the season. 
It will be sent out during the summer at 42s. each ; meantime, Mr. William BuU will be happy to 
show it to those favouring his establishment with a visit. 
MW MD RARE STOVE PLiRTS. 
ACANTHUS MONTANUS. 
This plant, handsome alike for foliage and blossom, has been introduced from Africa ; the leaves are 
nearly a foot long and 3 to 5 inches broad, dentated, spiued, and sinuated, the flowers one-lipped, pink 
or lilac rose, produced in spikes. 
A figure of it appeared in the last volume of the Botanical Magazine. 
Price 6s. each. 
ALLAMANDA HENDERSONI. 
Tills remarkalJly fine variety has been imported from Guiana. It is the largest flowered orange- 
yellow AUamanda Imown, lobes finely formed, immensely thick and wax-like, and tinged with brown on 
the reverse side. The plant begins to flower about the same time as the other Allamandas, but when 
once it commences it possesses the excellent characteristic of being continuous flowering j thus the 
