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NEW PLANTS 
CTTRCTJLIGO DENSA. 
A short and compact liahitcd species imported from India. It lias oblong ovate acuto 
leaves which are smooth on the surface and strongly plicato-nervose, the apex running out into a 
small thread-like point ; the colour is dark green, with a silvery lustre on the surface, which is most 
evident on the newly developed leaves. It is a small-growing dwarf form of this genus and a 
pretty decorative plant. 10s. 6rf. 
DICH2EA VAGINATA. 
A charming epiphytal Orchid, for growing in a suspended basket in the stove, its neat habit and 
the symmetrical arrangement of its parts giving it an extremely elegant and pretty character. It is 
of creeping habit, and when planted in a small basket and suspended, its evergreen and peculiarly 
flattened stems, which have neatly arranged distichous leaves, luing down gracefully on all sides. 
It has been imported from Mexico. Vide illustration, page 12. 10s. 6 d. 
DRAC-ENA EXCELLENS. 
A magnificent hybrid variety of a strikingly handsome and effective style of growth. It has 
broad, oblong, drooping leaves, with rosy-edged petioles, the leaf blades being bronzy, irregularly 
coloured with bright rosy red, sometimes the whole leaf taking on this striking colour. It has the 
habit of D. Cooperii, but the leaves are at least twice as broad. 15s. 
ERYTHRINA VESPERTILIO. 
A very distinct and grotesque looking warm greenhouse shrub, introduced from Western 
Australia. It is of rather slender growth, erect in habit, moderately branched, and furnished with 
alternate peculiarly- shaped trifoliolate loaves on longish petioles. The leaflets are very remarkable 
and unusual in form, and it is this which imparts grotesqueness to the aspect of the plant ; they are 
obversely triangular, the base being cuneate, aud the front side deeply hollowed out, so as to leave 
the two front angles projecting, the hollowed portion being varied in outline — sometimes rounded, 
and sometimes squarish with a central apiculus. The two lateral leaflets have very short petioles, 
but that of the terminal one is considerably longer. The flowers are numerous in showy erect 
racemes, pendulous, ■with an ovate standard nearly an inch and a half long. The unusual and 
strikingly furcate character of its leaflets aud its elegant growth, renders this plant very captivating. 
Vide illustration, page 3. 10s. 0 d. 
GOVENIA DELICIOSA. 
A pretty terrestial Orchidaceous plant, introduced from Mexico. It produces spikes of fine 
white flowers having short lateral sepals and broad petals, marked with transverse purple bars 
inside ; the lip and column are white with dark brown spots. Is. Gd. 
HELIOTROPIUM INCANUM. 
A distinct species introduced from Peru. It has broad ovate tomentose leaves ; the flowers are 
borne in large and dense, globose, terminal cymes, and are of a purple colour-. A desirable 
acquisition, which in the hands of the hybridist will probably be the progenitor of a new race. 
Vide illustration, page 6. 7s. Gd. 
HEMIGRAPHIS COLORATA. 
A branching dwarf habited stove plant, which has been imported from India. The leavos are 
of moderate size, cordate, cremate at the margin, the upper surface slightly bullate aud tinted with 
silvery grey, the principal veins being traced out with dark green, the under snrface of a bright 
tint of purple. The flowers are small, white and axillary. 5s. 
IXORA EMINENS. 
A splendid variety of exceptional merit, giving trusses of fine, large, well-formed flowers, clear 
buff on opening, changing afterwards to light salmon pink. 21s. 
IXORA GEMMA. 
A fine addition to this showy aud effective genus. It has round and well-formed pips of a rich 
orange yellow colour, produced in large and compact trusses. Tliis variety will be found of the 
greatest value for exhibition purposes. 15s. 
MARANTA CONSPICTJA. 
A small growing species introduced from Brazil. The leaves are oblong ovate, purplish on the 
under surface, the upper sido dark green, marked with broken distant bauds of pale yellow green, 
forming a pinnated pattern, the bands curving slightly with the veins towards the apex of the 
leaf. 10s. Gd. 
