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NEW PLANTS, 1901. 
GMELINA HYSTRIX. 
A semi-climbing plant from the East Indies, with the habit of a Bougainvillea, and therefore 
most suitable for covering the roofs and pillars of stoves. Tlie flowers are of a very decorative 
character, most freely borne in dense terminal diooping spikes formed of acuminate bracts, 
beautifully veined with purplish red. The corolla is nearly 3 inches long and golden yellow, os. 
PLEROMA CANDIDA. 
This pretty free flowering Melastomaceous plant has been introduced from South Australia. 
It is of shrubby habit, well furnished with dark green ovate-lanceolate leaves, densely covered with 
soft silky hair, the five longitudinal veins very prominent on the under side. The flowers, 
which are borne in loose terminal heads, are individually about 1 i to If inch in diameter, the petals 
being of snowy whiteness. This will be found a desirable flowering plant for the warm 
conservatory or stove, os. 
NEW WINTER-FLOWERING 
BEGONIAS. 
BEGONIA, “ CALEDONIA." 
(The White “Gloire de Lorraine.”) 
An introduction which promises to become as popular as the well-known “ Gloire de Lorraine." 
Alike in habit of growth and foliage, it only differs from that variety in having flowers of snowy 
whiteness, borne, like the typical variety, in the most abundant profusion. 10s. Crf. 
BEGONIA, CORAIL. 
A bright coral scarlet flowered variety of robust growth, raised from li. sempirjlormt crossed 
with B. fuchsioides miniata, and is a welcome addition to winter-flowering plants. 3s. 6d. 
BEGONIA, FULGURANT. 
This is of the same parentage as the preceding, but the flowers are of much brighter hue and 
borne in rigid panicles, in a most profuse manner. It is admirably adapted for massing and for 
the decoration of warm greenhouses through the winter. 3s. 6d. 
NEW FUCHSIAS (1901). 
The following beautiful kinds are now being sent out for the first time. 
They are all very desirable, and of unusual excellence. 
The varieties marked * have double flowers. 
•BKITON, fine large semi-double reddish purple corolla ; long and broad sepals nicely recurved, of 
a reddish scarlet colour. 6s. 
BETTTnS, a very elegant variety, with short tube and long, narrow, elegantly reflexed, bright 
crimson scarlet sepals ; single corolla of good shape, bright purplish crimson. 6s. 
♦BUDGET, large and broad sepals completely recurved over very short tube ; large expanding 
semi-double corolla of a rich purple colour. 6s. 
