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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE GREENHOUSE PLANTS. 
LIBERTIA GRANDIFLORA. 
A very handsome herbaceous perennial from New Zealand, which proves to ho nearly hardy, and 
an abundant flowerer. The plant is an evergreen, with tufts of distichous grassy leaves. The 
flower stems are 3 feet high, bearing spike-like panicles of showy pure white flowers, produced in 
succession for a month or six weeks. It is a very ornamental plant for the summer flower borders. 05 . 
LIBONIA floribunda, Is. 6 d. and 2*. 6 d. I LILIUM, of sorts, vide pages 90 to 92. 
PENBH08IENSIS, 1 s. 6d. and 2s. 6 d. | LINUM tbigynum, 2s. 6d. 
LITTONIA MODESTA. 
A pretty Liliaceous plant of a gen'us allied to Gloriosa ; it produces charming golden-yellow 
bell-shaped flowers, which are highly elegant and attractive. 3s. 6rf. 
LOMATIA FERRUGINEA, 5s. and 1$. 6d. | LUCULIA gbatissima, 5s. and 7 s. Gd. 
MACKAYA BELLA. 
This beautiful Acanthaceous plant is a native of the bed of the Tongat River, Natal. The 
flowers have a pale lilac corolla nearly two inches long, the throat ornamented with delicately pencilled 
reticulated purple veins, tubular below, campanulate upwards, with a deeply five-lobed spreading 
limb. The plant is very floriferous, and when in full bloom, appears a mass of most delicate, 
pendent, campanulate flowers. This charming plant has been figured in the Botanical Magazine , 
tab. 5797. 3s. 6d. and 5s. 
MACADAMIA ternifolia, 5 s. and 7s. Or/. 
MACROPIPER. EXCF.LSUM, 5 S. 
MACROZAMIA, vide Index 
MAGNOLIA Campbellii, vide page 92. 
fuscata, 3s. GrZ. and os. 
MANDEVILLA suaveolens, 2s. 6i 7. and 3s. 6 il . 
MARICA NORTHIANA. 
An Iris-like plant, a native of Brazil. It has broad sword-shaped leaves, and the flower stems, 
which are flattened and leaf-like, bear singularly handsome flowers, which consist of three ovate- 
ivory-white sepals, spotted with brown at the base, and three yellowish petals marked with rich 
brown in the lower parts, and white veined with blue at the recurved tips. 7s. GrZ. and 10s. 6r/. 
METROSIDEROS FLORIBUNDA, 2s. 6 d. 
robusta, 3s. 6 d . and os. 
MITRARIA coccinea, 2s. Gr /. and 3s. Or/. 
MONOCHZETUM Lemonianum, 2s. Or/, and 3s. Or Z. 
SERICEUM multiflorum, 2s. Or/, and 3s. Or/. 
MUSA superba, vide page do 
MUSA ENSETE. 
This is the grand Banana of Abyssinia. In growth it is one of the most striking and noble of 
ornamental plants, and it is without doubt one of the most effective for summer out-door gardening. 
Its immense erect leaves attain a length of eight to ten feet, and are of a beautiful dark green, the 
mid-rib being bright crimson, forming an admirable and striking contrast. It attains altogether an 
average growth of twelve to fifteen feet in height. 5s., 7s. Gr/. and 10s. (id. 
MYRSIPHYLLUM asparagoides, 2s. Gr/. & 3s. 6r/. I NER1NE corusca, 2s. 6r/. 
MYRTUS, of sorts, Is. Gr/. and 2s. Gr/. | corusca major, 3s. Gr/. 
NERINE EXCELLENS. 
A novel and beautiful hybrid variety of this Amaryllidaceous genus. It is of the easiest culture, 
and of free-flowering habit. The flowers grow in umbels of from six to nine together, and 
have a very showy appearance, the reflexed perianth segments being two inches in length ; the 
colour is a bright rosy-pink, with a carmine -crimson rib down the centre of each segment. It is a 
very charming addition to the family. Figured in the Florist and Fomologist. 10s. Gr l. 
PASSIFLORA EDULIS, 3s. Gr i. 
Imperatkice Eugenie, 3s. Gr/. 
Loudoni, 3s. Gr/. 
NERINE FLEXUOSA MAJOR, 3s. 6r/. 
Fothergillii, 2s. Gr l. and 3s. Gr/. 
major, 6s. 
rosea, 2s. (id. 
venusta, 3s. Gr/. 
NERIUM Madoni grandiflorum, 2s. Gr/. 
of sorts, 2s. Gr/. and 3s. 6 d. 
OLEA fraorans, 3s. 6d. and os. 
OPHIOPOGON Jaburan aureo-variegatus, 
2s. 6d. and 3s. Ctf. 
SPICATU8 AliOENTEO- J1AHGINATU3, 2s. 6d. 
and 3s. Gd. 
ORCHIDS, of sorts, vide Index 
PALMS, of sorts, vide Index 
PANCRATIUM collinum, 2s. 6rZ. and 3s. 6rZ. 
PARDANTHUS cinxE.N-sis, Is. 6r/. 
PASSIFLORA Campbellii, 3s. Gr/. 
Clowesii, 3s. Gr/. 
CIERULEA GRANDIFLORA, 3s. Gr/. 
RACEMOSA, 2s. (id. 
Colvilui, 2s. Gr/. 
Munroi, 3s. (id. 
ONYCItINA, 3s. Gr/. 
SERRATIFOLIA, 3s. 6d. 
of sorts, 2S. Gr/., 3s. Gr/. and 5s. 
PELARGONIUM, vide Index 
PHALANGIUM aroenteo-lineare (Anthericum 
variegatum), 2s. Gr/. and 3s. (id. 
lineare elegans, 5s. 
PHILESIA buxifolia, 7 s. Gr/. and 10s. Gr/. 
PH/EDRANASSA ciiloraoea, Is. 6 d. and 2s. 6rZ. 
PHORMIUM ATROPURPUREUM, 7s. Gr/. & 10s. 6r/. 
Colensoi VARIEGATUM, 7 s. 6r/., 10s. 6r/., 
15s. and 1 guinea. 
nigro-limbatum, vide page 80 
nigro-pictum, 10s. (id. and 15s. 
tenax, 3s. Gr/. , 5s. and 7s. 6r/. 
variegatum, 1 and 2 guineas. 
Veitchii variegatum, 5s. and 7s. 6rZ. 
