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NEW AND RARE STOVE PLANTS. 
ANTHURIUM SCHERZERIANUM. 
This has been introduced from Costa Rica, and is one of the most striking and beautiful dwarf- 
flowering plants of recent introduction, producing beautiful brilliant scarlet flowers, each of which 
remains from two to three months in bloom. This charming and novel plant is of easy culture, and 
a most abundant bloomer. 
It has received numerous First Class Prizes at all the principal English and Continental 
Exhibitions. 
Price 1 A and 2 guineas each. 
ARISTOLOCHIA ORNITHOCEPHALA. 
A stove climber of very remarkable character; the blossoms are very large, and of the most 
singular structure imaginable. To render any description of it at all familiar, it may be said to 
have the head of a hawk and the beak of a heron, with the wattles of the Spanish fowl, which, 
however, are grey, netted with brown ; the head the same colour, veined, whilst the beak is grey. 
Price 7s. 6 il. each. 
ARISTOLOCHIA LABIOSA, 7x.Grf.aud lOx.firf. | ARISTOLOCHIA TRILOB ATA, 3s. M. and 5s. 
BERTOLONIA GUTTATA. 
A very fine variegated Melastomad, received by us from Madagascar, although its native habitat 
is probably Brazil. Its ovate leaves, which exceed 5 inches in length by 3 in breadth, are of a dar - 
olive green colour, profusely marked with lines of beautiful rose coloured spots, which present a 
charming contrast. 
It forms a handsome dwarf stove foliage plant, of good habit and free growth, and can be recom- 
mended as a deoided acquisition to any collection. , 
It is figured in the Botanical Magazine , and has received a First Class Certificate from the Moral 
Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society. 
Price 15 s. each. 
BERTOLONIA MARGARITACEA. 
This charming plant has been introduced from Brazil ; its ovate acuminate leaves, which are from 
4 to G inches long, and 3 to 4 inches broad, are of a deep olive colour, with a narrow shade of purple 
alon- the ribs, each leaf regularly marked with rows of clear circular spots, giving the plant the 
appearance as if dotted all over with pearls, and the under part of the leal a bright pink; its flowers 
are produced in clusters, and are of snowy whiteness, with bright red calyx and yellow stamens, 
description can exaggerate, or hardly do justice to, the beauty of this plant ; mfac^rt may be 
looked upon as one of the prettiest objects for the stove that has been introduced foi some tin e. 
It was exhibited and comprised in the six New Plants with which Mr. William Bull gamed the 
First Prize at the London International Horticultural Exhibition. It has also received First Class 
Certificates from the Royal Horticultural and Royal Botanic Societies, as well as the First Prize at 
the Crystal Palace Flower Show, and elicited great admiration whenever exhibited. 
Price 1, 1J, and 2 guineas each. 
BERTOLONIA PUBESCENS. 
This plant has been introduced from Ecuador. Its leaves are light green, broadly banded down 
tlie centre with dark chocolate, 
and .Royal Botanic Societies 
It received First Class Certificates from the Royal Horticultural 
Price 3.?. 6 d. each. 
BIGNONIA ARGYREA VIOLASCENS. 
A pretty ornamental climber, introduced from South America. The leaves of this p 
exquisite, showing two or three forms of variegation at the same time ; w cn youn ^ _ 
purplish green, with the mid-rib and veins bordered on each side with bright ™letiose, and as 
they become matured change to a bright green ground colour, with 01 e,S • Qn s0 
mid-rib and veins of silvery whiteness ; the under surface of the leav es is i ig P P " > 
that with all these colours tho plant produces an effect of the most pleasing description. 
Price 3s. 6 d., 5s., to 10s. 6( l. each. 
