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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
COSTUS ZEBRINUS. 
An ornamental plant introduced from South America. It has rich satiny dark green leaves, 
shaded so as to appear striately marked -with pallid lines, the mid-rib grey, and the back of the 
leaves of a bright purplish crimson. 
Price 5s. and 7 «• 6 d. cadi. 
CRESCENTIA A LATA. 
A small treo, with simple and trifoliated leaves, purplish flowers, and round fruits looking liko 
oranges. The pulp of the fruit is used medicinally by the natives of Mexico, the sholl is made into 
drinking-cups, and the seeds are toasted and converted into a cooling drink, much esteemed by the 
people of Nicaragua. The tree is indigenous to Mexico and the Central American States, and is 
occasionally cultivated in tropical gardens. 
Seeds have been sent from Nicaragua by Dr. Seemanu, fVom which the plants now offered have 
been raisod. 
Price 7s. Gil. each. 
CYRTANDRA BICOLOR. 
A beautiful plant, having glossy dark bronzy leaves and white flowers. It has been introduced 
from Java. In 1865 it was exhibited as a new plant at tho International Horticultural Exhibition, 
held at Amsterdam, and obtained tho first prize, which award stamps it as a plant of the highest 
merit. 
Price 1 guinea each . 
DICHROSTACHYS PLATYCARPA. 
This elegant-growing shrub was discovered by Dr. Welwitsoh in the Highlands of the district of 
Golungo Alto, Angola. 
The flowers are produced in pendulous spikes about lj inches long, the lower half of which aro 
bright yellow, the other half rose coloured, the foliage is of a glaucous green, and tho leaves are 
bipiunate, fourteen and more jugate, the leaflets from twenty-six to thirty pairs ; the legume is 
nearly an inch broad, and peculiarly twisted. 
Price 15s. each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA BARAQUINIANA. 
This ivory-like stemmed introduction is from Brazil ; its footstalks and mid-ribs are pure white, 
leaves pale green, beautifully spotted with white. 
Price 7s. (id., 1 Os. Or/., 15s., and 1 guinea each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA GIGANTEA. 
The stem and leaf stalks of this species are prettily marked with green and white. This plant 
combines the stem and foliage of both D. Baraguiniana and B. grand is. 
Price 10s. Or/., 15s., and 1 guinea each. 
DIEFFENBACHIA GRANDIS. 
Introduced from Brazil ; leaves pale green, with spotted leaf stalks, and stem elegantly mottled. 
Price 6s., 7s. 6 d,, and 10s. 6 d. each, 
DIEFFENBACHIA WEIRI. 
This has been introduced by the Royal Horticultural Society from South America, through their 
collector, Mr. Weir, after whom it is named. It is of dwarf habit, foliage of a bright green colour, 
thickly blotched and spotted with pale yellow. This is probably the finest of all the Dicffenbacbias, 
and can be recommended as a very ornamental-foliaged stove plant. 
Price lj guineas each, 
