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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
CROTON EXCURRENS. 
A peculiar variety, which is characterised by its oblong-stalked loaves having the mid-rib or costa 
excurrent in the form of a small horn near the apex of the leaf. The colours are green and yellow, 
very regularly disposed. A distinct and attractive plant. 15s. 
CROTON FORMOSUS. 
A handsome hybrid variety of moderate growth. The leaf-stalks are crimson, the leaf-blade 
bright green, with a pale yellow central baud running out into veins or small irregular blotches ; the 
principal veins are yellow, enclosing oblong areoles, while the marginal veins, which are also yellow, 
are more closely reticulated, the surface being here and there sprinkled with yellow spots. These 
yellow portions take on at a later period a glowing crimson hue, the mid-rib and margin especially 
being of a bright magenta-crimson. It was one of the New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained 
the First Prize at the Intel-national Horticultural Exhibition, held at Carlisle, and at tho Provincial 
Show of the Royal Horticultural Socioty, held at Preston. 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
CROTON gloriosus (Princess of Wales), 3s. 
gracilis, 10«. Gd. 
Haxburyanus, os. 
hastiferus, 3s. Gd. 
Gd. 
CROTON Harwoodianus, ride C. triumphans 
Hawkeru, 5s. 
Hector, 5s. 
CROTON HEROICUS. 
An attractive hybrid of the Bismarcki type. The colour is bright green freely marked with 
deep yellow, the central bar and the veins, and in many cases the half, or even the whole of the 
leaf-surface being yellow, arid this in some leaves flushed or lined with a tint of rosy crimson. 
When regularly yellow-barred, and marked with yellow veins, and these parts also striated with 
crimson veins, the leaves are particularly handsome. 10s. Gd. 
CROTON IIendersoni (fasciatus), 3s. Gd. 
Icarus, 3s. Gd. 
illusteis, ride page 29. 
CROTON Imperator, ride C. Challenger 
imperials, 7s. 6d. 
INTERRUPTUS aureus, 5s. 
CROTON INSIGNIS. 
A fine form of great beauty, with long narrow foliage. The leaves are deep green, with tho 
mid-rib and veins beautifully picked out with golden-yellow, the margins and mid-rib rosy crimson. 
In the older leaves the markings run in from the edge, and become suffused over the central bar, in 
which state it is very handsome. This was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W B 
gained tho First Prize at the Great Show of the Royal Horticultural Society, held at Kensington in 
1880. 10s. Gd. and 15s. 
CROTON Jajiesii, 3si 6d. I CROTON jucundus, 7s. Gd. 
Jubilee, 3s. 6d. | J i-xox, 3s. Gd. 
CROTON KINGIANUS. 
Probably the noblest and grandest form of this beautiful group of plants that has yet been 
obtained. The immense leaves are twelve to eighteen inches in length, and five to eight inches in 
breadth, brilliantly marked with golden variegations. The ground colour is a deep green, on which 
is displayed a series of coloured reticulations; the principal veins are distant and pass from the 
mid-rib nearly to the edge, where they arch to meet each other, exterior to which they become more 
closely reticulated, and all picked out in gold. 5s. and 7s. 6d. 
CROTON lacteus, 3s. Gd, | CROTON laxcifolius, 5s. 
CROTON LINEARIS. 
A small -growing variety of remarkably neat habit. The leaves are from four to six inches 
long, linear, usually obtuse, but sometimes nan-owed to the noint. dark in-een. with n vnllow m Li- 
no and a few lateral blotches of the same colour, 
CROTON Macafeeanus, 3s. Gd. 
Macarthuri, 3s. Gd. 
majesticus, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
Massanqeaxus, 5s. 
Memxon, 7s. Gd. 
Mooreaxus, 3s. 6d. 
Mortii, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
occasionally almost wholly yellow. 7s. Gd. 
CROTON mutabilis, ride C. princeps 
Neptune, 3s. Gd. and 5s. 
Nimrod, 10s. 6d. 
nobilis, 3s. Gd. 
Oberon, 5s. 
Orestes, 7s. 6d. 
CROTON ORNATUS. 
An attractive and distinct variety. The leaves slightly undulated at the margin, deep green 
with a narrow central band of creamy yellow, and long parallel veins of the same colour, the surface 
being here and there marked by blotches of yellow, the yellow parts becoming tinged with crimson. 
In some conditions the lines and blotches are rosy pink, and the mid-rib of a deeper rosy crimson 
10s. Gd. and 15s. J 
