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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
DRACiENA GOLDIEANA. 
One of the most magnificent omamental-foliagcd plants ever introduced, and altogether unique 
in character and aspect. It is a native of AVestern Tropical Africa. The plant is of erect habit, 
and the stems are closely set with stalked spreading leaves the petioles of which are of a greyish 
colour, terete, with a narrow furrow along the upper side, the base being dilated and sheathing the 
steni. Ihe blade of the leaf is cordate -ovate acuminate, with a yellowish green costa, and marbled 
and irregularly banded with dark green and silver-grey in alternate sti'aight or furcate transverse 
bands, the colours being about equally distributed. The back of the unfolded leaves is a pale 
reddish purple or wine colour, and the stem where visible at the upper joints is of similar hue, the 
lower parts becoming green. It is, without doubt, one of the most superb of ornamental stove 
plants, and indispensable in all first-class collections. This beautiful species lias been frequently 
shown in Mr. AV. B.’s winning collections of New Plants. 7s. (id., 10s. (id., 15s. and 1 guinea. 
DKAC.2ENA GOLD: 
