NEW AND EAEE STOVE PLANTS. 
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FITTONIA ARGYRONEURA. 
This exquisite, neat, and compact-growing plant is well worthy of a place in every collection of 
Stove Plants, its singular beauty always commanding attention. The leaves, which vary from two to 
four inches long and one and a-half to three inches wide, are of a bright green, very glossy, beautifully 
veined and netted with silvery white ; the contrast of white and green giving the plant a most effective 
appearance. It grows freely and can be easily cultivated. 
It has been introduced from Peru, and is offered for the ornament of its foliage alone, for its flowers 
are small and insignificant. 
A beautiful drawing of this plant has just been given in the Flore des Serrea et des Jardins de 
VEm-ope, 
Whenever exhibited it received the highest awards that could be made. 
Price 5s., 7s. Gd., and 10s. Gd. each. 
FRANCISCEA LINDENI. 
A free-flowering attractive variety, producing very large violet-mauve flowers ; introduced from the 
interior of the province of St. Catherine’s, Brasil. It is one of the best Fr^noisceas ever offered, and a 
plant that can be strongly recommended. 
It is of excellent habit, and free growth, merely requiring ordinary stove cultivation. 
Price 5s., 7s. 6d., 10s. 6d., to 21s. each. 
HABENARIA MARGARITACEA.' 
A pretty neat-growing variegated plant, with oblong acuminate dark green leaves, which are irregu- 
larly blotched and spotted with pure white ; the flowers are wliite, small, and produced on spikes, spirally 
arranged, which has an interesting effect. 
It has been introduced from South America. 
Price 5 guineas each. 
LANKESTERIA BARTERI. 
A free-blooming species introduced from West Africa ; the flowers are produced on spikes, and are 
of an orange colour. 
A figure of it can be seen in the last volume of the Botanical Magazine^ 
Price 5s. each. 
MARANTA LINDENI. 
This is an exceedingly beautiful plant, introduced from Peni ; the surface of the leaves olive green 
and the reverse side purplish rose, both sides blotched with yellowish green almost transparent, which 
produces a striking, attractive, and pleasing contrast. 
Price 21s, each. 
MARANTA PICTURATA. 
Rich bright-green glossy leaves, with conspicuous white mid-rib, and white bands running length- 
ways, compaet habit. 
Introduced from Para. 
Price 15s. each. 
MARANTA ROSEO-PICTA. 
^ A variegated plant introduced from the Upper Amazon, of dwarf, compact habit and attractive 
appearance j the leaves are of a very dark green on the surface, richly marked or banded with red and 
white, with rosy coloured mid-rib, the back of the leaves of a bright purplish crimson. 
This and the preceding elicited immense admiration at the International Horticultural Exhibition. 
Price 21s. each. 
