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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
SPH/EROGYNE CINNAMOMEA. 
An ornamental plant introduced from Costa Rica, the aspect of which is really noble, for the 
leaves are about 1} feet long, by 9 inches broad. Its cultivation is easy, and it succeeds admirably 
in a stove. The specific name is derived from the cinnamon-like character and colour of its stem, 
which makes a pleasing contrast to the massive light green foliago. 
This plant oan be recommended as a first-class novelty, well adapted for exhibiting as a foliago 
plant. 
It has received various Certificates of Merit for its ornamental character. 
Price 5s. and 7s. Gd. each. 
THE MUSTARD TREE OF SCRIPTURE, “SALVADORA PERSICA.” 
About a plant so historically associated it is not surprising there should be a considerable degree 
of interest ; and this interest has boen intensified, within the last few years, by scientific men 
determining, with something like accuracy, that Salvadora Pevsica was the plant parabolically 
referred to in Scripture nearly 19 centuries ago. 
The difficulty in identifying this plant as the Mustard Tree of Scripture has arisen from many 
causes, one of which has been, that it is not what is now commonly understood as the mustard 
plant Sinaph (Linnseus)— indeed, reference could hardly have been made in the parable to the latter, 
because it is not perennial, nor docs it grow into a large tree whero fowls of the air can lodge in its 
branches. The ancients could not class plants botanically, and did not group them from their 
external resemblance, but from their possessing similar properties, whether medicinal or chemical ; 
and so the Salvadora Pcrsica was called Chardal in Hebrew, Khurdal in Arabic, which signifies 
mustard throughout the East, the seed of this plant being usually employed in Palestine for the 
ordinary purposes of mustard. This Khurdal ( Salvadora ) is found in Arabia, Syria, Persia, India, 
along the banks of the Jordan, is abundant in the neighbourhood of the Lake of Tiberias and the 
Dead Sea, as also near Damascus, and is recognised in Syria as tho Mustard Tree of Scripture ; is 
known as Kharjal in Northern India, and is the Chardal Tree alluded to by Talmudical writers ; all 
of which have been very ably traced and explained by the late Dr. J. Forbes Royle, in a pamphlet 
published by him ; previous to which, no less authority than the late Dr. Lindloy, in his Plora 
Medica, mentions Salvadora Pcrsica as the supposed Mustard Tree of Scripture. 
Although in its native habitat it becomes a tree, yet it can bo easily cultivated as a small shrubby 
plant ; and though when compared with other plants it may lack beauty, still there is connected 
with it such an important historical association, that it makes it a plant of the highest and deepest 
interest. The foliage of the Salvadora is neat and comparatively small, much resembling that of the 
Myrtle ; the flowers are dispersed in clusters on the tops of the shoots, and are like those of tho Vine. 
Price 5s. and 7s. 6d. each. 
TERMINALIA ELEGANS. 
This exquisite foliage plant has been introduced from Madagascar ; it is one that ranks foremost 
in the ornamental section —the leaves are lanceolate, trifoliate^, and elegantly reticulated, glossy, 
with bright red mid-rib, and richly netted with dark veins on a bright green ground. 
To oonvey a familiar notion of this plant, it may be said to be somewhat like Pavetta lorbonicu, 
but with trifoliate leaves, which add materially to its beauty. 
It has received First Class Certificates firom the Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanic Socioties, 
as also a First Prize at the Crystal Palace Flower Show. 
Price 2 guineas each. 
TRADESCANTIA REPENS VITTATA. 
A pretty trailing plant, extremely useful for vases, hanging baskets, &c. ; in habit it is similar to 
the olcl Tradeseantia zebrina, but the foliage is of a bright green, blotched with white— in many 
instances the entire half of the leaf is white. 
Price 5s. each, 
TRADESCANTIA REPENS VARIEGATA. 
A similar plant to the preceding, but with the foliage irregularly striped with white j which 
makes a pretty contrast with the other bright green portion. 
It has received a Certificate of Merit from the Floral Committoo of tho Royal Horticultural Society. 
Price 5s. each . 
