NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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PASSI FLORA MACROCARPA. 
A free-growing climber introduced from the Eio Negio j the blossoms are very large, white and 
purple, but it possesses the remarkable feature of giving fruit, each weighing about eight pounds. 
Price 10s. 6c?. each. 
PEPEROMIA ARGENTEA. 
A pretty, silvery, wax-like little plant introduced from South America, easily cultivated, and, being 
small and compact-growing, quite an acquisition. 
Price 10s. Gd. each. 
PEPEROMIA ARGYREA. 
This pretty ornamental plant lias been introduced from Brazil, and is the handsomest species with 
which we are iicquainted. It is of easy cultivation, with ovate cordate leaves of wax -like character, and 
great substance, bright green ribs or veins with the inteiwening spaces white, giving the impression of 
burnished silver. 
# It has been awarded a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural 
Society. 
Price 7s. 6c?. and 10s. 6c?. each, 
PEPEROMIA ARIFOLIA. 
This exquisite little variegated plant has been inti*oduced by the Royal Horticultural Society, by 
their collector, Mr. Weir, from South America. Its leaves are thick, bright green with white variegation, 
the colours somewhat marbled or reticulated. 
It has received several Certificates of Merit, and is a plant that can be strongly recommended. 
Price 7s. 6c?. and 10s. 6c?. each. 
PEPEROMIA MACULOSA. 
The leaves of this plant are of great 
purple. 
substance, bright glossy green, footstalks richly spotted with 
Pi'ice 35. 6c?. each. 
PHILODENDRON BI-PINNATIFIDUM. 
An ornamental species from Brazil, requiring only an intermediate house or cool stove ; indeed, *it is 
a plant so easily grown, as to be admirably adapted for cultivating in the rooms of a dwelling-house. 
Its leaves attain a length of about 2 feet by in breadth, they are of a bright green and bipinnatifidly 
formed, and rendered handsome by this character. 
Price 155. each. 
PITCAIRNEA TABUL/EFORMIS. 
This veiy distinct species was sent to Europe by M. Ghiesbreght, who discovered it in Chiapa, in the 
province of Mexico. The leaves are regularly produced one above the other, and so closely as to give 
an almost flat or tabular character, especially when of large size. The flowers are produced from the 
centre in a dense spike, and are of a deep orange colour, which contrasts prettily with its light green 
foliage. 
The remarkable growth and appearance of the plant renders it a curious and attractive object. It 
has been figured in the Floral Magazine for July, 1866. 
Price 5s, each. 
ROGERIA GRATISSIMA. 
The flowers of this plant are perfect gems for bouquets. They are produced in elegant corymbs of a 
delicate pink colour. It blooms so freely that it is nearly always in flower, added to which it is deliciously 
fragi'ant, and the habit of the plant is neat and compact. 
It has been introduced from Teopisca, Ohiapa, at an altitude of 7,500 feet above the level of the sea, 
consequently in the cool region, so that cultivated in a cold stove it succeeds admirably. 
Price 105. 6(?. and l05. each. 
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