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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
PASSIFLORA MACROCARPA. 
A free-growing climber introduced from tho Kio Negro. Tlio blossoms are very large, white and 
purple, but it possesses the remarkable feature of giving fruit, each weighing about eight pounds. 
Price 5s. and 7*. (id. each, 
PEPEROMIA ARGENTEA. 
A pretty, silvery, wax-like little plant, introduced from South America, easily cultivated, and, 
being small and compaot growing, quite an acquisition. 
Price 10s. 6rf, each, 
PEPEROMIA ARGYREA, 
This pretty ornamental plant has been introduced from Brazil, and is the handsomest species with 
which we are acquainted. It is of easy cultivation, with ovate cordate leaves of wax-like charaotor, 
and great ^substance, bright gro on ribs or veius, with tho intervening spaces white, giving tho 
impression of burnished silver. 
It has been awarded a First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Koyal Horticultural 
Society. 
Price 5s. and 7s. Gd, each, 
PEPEROMIA ARIFOLIA, 
This exquisite little variegated plant has been introduced by the Koyal Horticultural Society, by 
their collector, Mr. Weir, from South America. Its leaves are thick, bright green with white 
variegation, the colours somewhat mai’bled or reticulated. 
It has received several Certificates of Merit, and is a plant that can be strongly recommended. 
Price 5s. and 7s. Gd. each. 
PEPEROMIA MACULOSA. 
The leaves of this plant are of great 
purple. 
substance, bright glossy green, footstalks richly spotted with 
Price 8s. Gd. each, 
PHILODENDRON BIPINNATIFIDUM. 
An ornamental species from Brazil, requiring only an intermediate house or cool stove ; indeed, 
it is a plant so easily grown, as to be admirably adapted for cultivating in the rooms of a dwelling- 
house. Its leaves attain a length of about 2 feet by li in breadth, they aro of a bright green and 
bipinnatifidly formed, and rendered handsome by this character. 
Price 1.5s. each, 
PITCAIRNEA TABUL/EFORMIS. 
This very distinct speoies was sent to Europe by M. Gliiesbreght, who discovered it in Chiapa, in 
the province of Mexico. Tho leaves are regularly produced one above the other, and so closely as 
to give an almost flat or tabular character, especially when of large size ; the flowers are produced 
from the centre in a dense spike, aud aro of a deep orange colour, which contrasts prettily with its 
light green foliage. 
The remarkable growth and appearance of the plant renders it a curious and attractive object ; it 
has been figured in the Floral Magazine for July, 1866. 
Price 3s. Gd. and 5s. each. 
ROGERIA GRATISSIMA. 
The flowers of this plant are perfect gems for bouquets. They are produced in elegant corymbs 
of a delicate pink colour. It blooms so freely that it is nearly always in flower, added to which it is 
deliciously fragrant, and the habit of the plant is neat and compact. 
It has been introduced from Teopisca, Chiapa, at an altitude of 7,500 feet above the level of tho 
sea, consequently in the cool region, so that cultivated in a cold stove it succeeds admirably. 
Price 7s. Gd, and 10s, 6:/. each. 
