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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOYE PLANTS. 
COTJROUPITA GUIANENSIS. 
. The Cannon-Ball Tree, Couroupitn guiancn.iis, belongs to the Lecythis family, and forms a 
striking feature of the arborescent vegetation of British Guiana. It freely produces large highly- 
scented pink flowers which are followed by a profusion of remarkable cannon-ball like seed vessels 
attaining individually a diameter of about six inches. 10s. 6(7. 
CRINUM ATJGTJSTUM. 
This magnificent and noble species has large and deliciously-scented flowers, borne in immense 
heads consisting of from twenty to twenty-five blooms, supported on stout erect scapes. The 
individual flowers consist of six segments, each about six inches long, which contract at the base 
into a tube four inches in length. The segments inside are purplish white, contrasting in a very 
pleasing manner with the exterior, which is bright rosy purple. 10s. 6 d. 
CRINUM AMABILE, 10s. 6 (7. 
ERUBESCENS, 7s. 6 (7. 
FOllMOSUM, 3s. 6 (7. 
GIGANTEUM, 10s. 6 (7. 
Moorei, vide page 71. 
ornatum, 7s. 6 d . 
. Sanderianum, ride page 13. 
SCABRUM, 10s. 6 (7. 
CROSSANDEA undulata, os. 
INFUNDIBULIFORMIS, 3*. (id. 
CEOTON (Codueum) Andreanus, 3s. 6/7. 
angustifolius, 2s. 6(7. and 3s. 6(7. 
APPENDICULATUS, 3s. 6(7. 
Arous, 3s. 6(7. 
AUREO-LINEATUS, 3s. 6(7. 
Bauonne James be Rothschild, 3s. 6(7. 
CROTON AUREO-PUNCTATUS. 
A very distinct and pleasing small-growing busliy-habited Croton (Codiieum), with linear blunt- 
tipped leaves, which are straight or falcately curved, bright green,- thickly maculated with dots and 
larger spots ot bright golden yellow, producing a distinct and pleasing form of variegation. 10s. 6(7. 
CROTON BROOMFIELDII. 
A richly-marked golden variegated variety of great beauty. The leaves are nine or ten inches 
long, and about two and a half inches broad in the widest part. The green ground colour is very 
dark, but everywhere broken up by irregular yellow lines, spots, and blotches. The mid-rib has a 
slight tint of red, with a yellow central band, and the margins are similarly tinted. 7s. 6d. and 10*. Gd. 
CEOTON Bismabcki, 5s. I CROTON Cerberus, 5s. 
CAJirTOPUYLLUs, 3 s. 6(7. j Challenger (Impeisator), 5s. 
CROTON CHELSONI. 
Tins Croton was introduced to this country from New Guinea. It is a remarkably elegant 
narrow -leaved form of noli coloration. The leaves are sometimes plane, sometimes twisted spirally 
and in this latter state the variegation shows up most distinctly, being of a bright salmony orange 
tint, shaded with crimson. This was one of the twelve New Plants witli which Mr W B .-ained 
the First Prize at the International Horticultural Exhibition, held at Dundee. 3s. 6(7 and 5s° 
CROTON CHRYSOPHYLLUS, 7 S. 6(7. 
CONCINNUS, 3s. 6(7. 
Conquest, 10s. 6(7. 
CEOTON cornigerus, 10s. 6(7. 
Countess, 10s. 6(7. 
Cyrus, 5s. 
CROTON CRCESUS. 
One of the series of Crotons or Codiamms with golden variegation. The leaves are bright 
green, with a yellow costa, and freely blotched with bright yellow in irregular patches or freckled 
markings, occupying half or sometimes more than half the leaf surface. 10s. 6(7. 
CROTON decorus, 7s. 6(7. 
Diadem, 3s. 6(7. 
Diana, 5s. 
Disraeli, 3s. 6(7. 
Dormanianus, 3s. 6(7. and 5s. 
Duke op Buccleuoh, 3s. 6(7. 
Earl of Derby, 5s. 
EBURNEUS, 5s. 
CEOTON Eclipse, 10s. 6(7. 
elegantissimus, vide page 27. 
Emblem, 7s. 6(7. 
Ension, 3s. 6(7. 
Evansianus, 3s. 6(7. 
excurrens, vide page 28. 
FALCATUS, vide C. variabiiis 
fasciatus, vide C. Hendersoni 
CROTON EMINENS. 
, A dense-habited free-growing hybrid variety. The leaves are olosely set, broadly lance-shaned 
tapered at the apex to an acute point; they are of a bright glossy green, with an^vorv-coloured 
mid-nb, and a portion of the lateral veins of the same colour. The contrast is very striking 7 10s 6(7 
