NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL & SONS. 
AGAPANTHUS INSIGNIS. 
This striking new Agapantlius has been imported from South Africa, and forms a very 
desirable addition to plants suitable for Conservatory deeoration. The strap-like arching leaves 
are bright green, the basal portion milk white, this colour extending some distance up the midrib. 
The inflorescence is produced on stout erect scapes crowned with immense heads, consisting of a 
multitude of elegant lilac flowers faintly shaded with lavender. The individual blossoms are 
borne on very long pedicels, thus forming magnificent spherical heads of bloom very striking and 
efl'ective in appearance. Vide illustration, page ii. 21s. 
CESPEDESIA DISCOLOR. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
This striking ornamental Stove Plant belongs to the Natural Order Ockiiacew, and is one 
of a small group of South American trees, bearing showy yellow flowers in lai’ge bractless 
panicles. The chief decorative feature of C. rlmolor, however, lies in the ornamental coloration 
of its young growth, which is rapidly developed from terminal buds, the five or six long 
drooping lanceolate leaves composing it being of a pale cinnamon buff, or biscuit colour, faintly 
suffused with rose and veined with pale yellow, forming a striking contrast to the dark green 
of the mature leaves. Tirfe illustration, page iii. 21s. 
EPIPHYLLUM DELICATUM. 
Awarded a First Claes Certificate by the Royal Horticultui’al Society. 
A charming new species introduced from Brazil, producing a profusion of wax-like blush- 
tinted flowers. It is in many respects similar to the well-known E. truncation, but differs in the 
following particulars : — The flowers are larger, much lighter in colour, of more regular formation, 
the petals being longer and less reflexed, while the tube of the corolla and style are less abruptly 
bent at the base. In growth it is more erect, the broad flat segments being oval in outline with 
three or four acute teeth on each margin. The flowers are terminal, white, tinted with delioate 
rose pink or blush, a narrow ring of carmine surrounding the mouth of tube, from which protrude 
the long curved style and yellow anthers. Vide illustration, page i. 21s. 
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