SELECT LIST OE NEW AND EARE STOVE PLANTS. 
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BILLBERGIA AM(ENA. 
This haiidsomo and freo-flowering species lias jialo green channelled leaves, minntely spined on 
the margins. Tlie inflorescence is extremely showy ; the peduncle, which is semi-ereot and about as 
long as the leaves, is clothed for the gi'eater part of its length with brilliant vermilion-scarlet bracts, 
and terminated by a loose spike of about seven green flowers with recurved petals and protruding 
orange anthers, in striking contrast to the deep bluish-purple tips of the calyx. It is a native of 
Ilrazil. 10». Cil. 
BILLBERGIA NOBILIS. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Koyal Horticultural Society. 
A magnificent species with semi-ereot broad serrated leaves marked transversely with a grey 
pulverescenee. The handsome inflorescence is produced on a long drooping spike, furnished 
on the central portion 
with large lanceolate, 
spreading bracts of 
the most ornamental 
character, the colour 
being a brilliant cerise 
carmine. The flowers 
are green, the petals 
rolling back and ex- 
posing the greyish-blue 
anthers. This handsome 
species is without doubt 
one of the most beautiful 
and striking of Brome- 
liads. 31.V. 6if. 
BOUGAINVILLEA 
FORMOSA. 
A showy and hand- 
some flowering variety 
introduced from Brazil. 
Owing to its free growth 
and abundant flowering 
( jualities un^er compara - 
tively cool treatment, 
this plant is admirably 
adapted for the decora- 
tion of warm green- 
houses and conserva- 
tories. It is of semi- 
scandent habit, and 
bears its richly coloured 
bright purplish mauve 
bracts in wonderful pro- 
fusion. 6«. 
BILLBEEGIA MOBILIS. 
CAMOENSIA MAXIMA. 
One of the most gorgeously beautiful of tropical climbers, a native of West Africa. The 
splendid bunches of pendulous milk-white flowers, tinged with gold on the edges of the petals, 
grow in erect racemes from the axils of the leaves; the petals are white, venose, ii t a le 
margin, where they are tinted with golden-yellow. This plant has been described and illustrated 
,n Vol. XXV. of the Transactions of the Linnajan Society, p. 301, t. 36. 21s. 
