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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
SAURAUJA SARAPIGIENSIS. 
This handsome foliage plant is an introduction from Costa Rica. From its noble aspect it is a 
worthy associate with Sphmrogyne and Cyanophyllunif and although only recently introduced it has already 
produced leaves twenty inches long by nine 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. 
The entire stock of this plant has been purchased from M. Linden, of Brussels. ' 
Pince 215. and 42s. each. 
SAMYDA NOBILIS. 
An extremely handsome oniamental 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 j the stem is covered with a light brown puberescence, the leaves are pendulous, and being so 
large they give to the plant a rich attractive character. 
It has been introduced from the Province of Saint Catherine, Brazil. 
It was awarded a First Class Certificate at the Exhibition of the Royal Botanic Society. 
Price 3 Guineas each. 
SELAGINELLA DENTiCULATA VARIEGATA. 
A very pretty variegated variety with all the branchlets pointed with white, looking in the winter 
as if tipped with snow ; but tliis character is peculiar to it in winter, for during the summer it assumes 
a somewhat greener aspect. 
Price 25. 6rf. and 35. 6d. each. 
SELAGINELLA MERTENSI ALBO-VARI EGATA. 
Another pretty variegated kind. Its very conspicuous wliite blotches, contrasted with the green, 
appear at a short distance as if speckled with silver, or halt covered with snow flakes. 
Price 2s. and 3s. Qd, each, 
SIPHOCAMPYLUS FULGENS. 
This free-flowering eiteotive plant has been introduced from South America and is a great acquisition 
to our stoves, for it perpetuates its showy blossoms nearly throughout the year ; it is of compact 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 extremely useful for bouquets. 
Price 10s. (id. and 15s. each. 
SMILAX MACROPHYLLA MACULATA. 
A variegated foliage climber with large ovate acuminate leaves, which are bright green, spotted 
and maculated with white. 
It has been introduced from Mexico, and is of easy culture. 
Price 7s. Gd. and IDs. C(Z. each. 
SOLANUM ANTHROPOPHAGORUM. 
This plant has been introduced by seeds from the Fiji Islands, through Dr. Seemann. 
The correspondence relative to the Fiji Islands, presented to both Houses of Parliament by 
command of Her Majesty, in May, 1862, is accompanied by an interesting Appendix, being a Report, 
by Dr. Seemann, on the “ Vegetable Productions and Resources of the Vitian or Fiji Islands,^ in which 
a chapter is devoted to “Vegetables eaten with Human Flesh,” fi’om which the following extract is 
made : — “ Human flesh, Fijians have repeatedly assured me, is extremely difficult to digest, and even 
the healthiest suffer for two or three days after partaking of it. Probably in order to assist the 
process of digestion, bokola, as dead men’s flesh is technically termed, is always eaten with the addition, 
of vegetables. The Boro dina {Solanum anthropophagoruirt) is 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 IO 5 . Gd. each. 
