SELECT LIST OF NEW AND EAEE STOVE PLANTS. 
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FICUS EADICANS VARIEGATA. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by tiie Royal Horticultural Society. 
Tliis charming and effective variety of Ficus radicans is without doubt destined to become “ a 
plant for everyone,” its easy culture, effective variegation and regular gi-owth making it one of the 
beat ornamental variegated plants ever sent out. The elegant aj)pcarance of this pretty plant and 
its effective variegation aj-e most striking, the leaves being freely and irregularly margined with white, 
the variegation sometimes extending to nearly the entire leaf, some of the young shoots and leaves 
being wholly white. As a variegated plant for a hanging pot or vase it cannot be excelled, while 
its bright and cheerful variegation will commend it to everyone as an ideal plant for the margins of 
stages and growing as single plants round sticks or on a trellis. I'idc illustration, page 8. 2». 6d. 
FICUS REPENS VARIEQATA. 
A variegated form of this useful wall ■ creeper, the leaves being prettily marmorated and speckled 
with creamy white. 3s. Crf. 
GMELINA HYSTRIX. 
A scaiident plant from the Fast Indies, with the habit of a Bougainvillea, and therefore 
most suitable for covering the I'oof's and piUars of stoves. Tlie flowers are of a very decorative 
character, most freely home in dense terminal drooping spikes formed of acuminate bracts, 
beautifully veined witli purplish red. The corolla is nearly 3 inches long and golden yellow. 3s. 6d. 
GRAPTOPHYLLUM PICTURATUM. 
A veiy striking and effective stove plant of free growth, furnished with opposite lanceolate 
leaves, having a central variegation of rich golden yoUow, maturing with age into creamy yellow . 5s. 
GRIFFIN lA HYACINTHINA. 
An extremely handsome and ornamental free-flowering bulbous plant from Brazil. The flower 
scape is about a foot high, and bears an umbel of from fifteen to twenty flowers of a beautiful bluish 
lilac colour, shading off to white at the base of the segments. 6s. and 7s. 6rf. 
HYPOLYTRUM SCHRADERIANUM. 
An ornamental Cyperaceous plant from Brazil. The leaves are crowded in bold triangular 
tufts, green witli purplish-red margins, traversed on the upper surface by two ribs running 
equidistant from base to apex. The bold triangular tuft of leaves, the colour, and the peculiar 
venation of the leaves, give to this plant a very distinct appearance. 31s. (>d. 
JASMINUM NITIDUM. 
A (diarming new species of slender growth, introduced from the Admiralty Islands, producing a 
profusion of deliciously scented snow-Avhite flowex’s, born in three-flow’cred umbels. Tlie blossoms, 
wliich are composed of ten to twelve ray-like petals, are large, and have an exceedingly elegant and 
graceful appearance. Tlie loaves are obovate, of a bright shining green colour. This pretty new 
species will be found a charming addition to warm-house climbers. Vide illu.stration, page 10. 5». 
KENDRICKIA WALZERI. 
A handsome climbing Mclastomaceous plant introduced from Ceylon. The flowers are large 
and are home in terminal umbels, the calyx ro.sy purple, the four fleshy petals nearly an inch long, 
being coloured bright red. The creeping stems, which support themselves by means of aerial roots, 
have opposite ovate or oblong fleshy loaves about 1^ inch long, the margins clothed with glandular 
hairs, and the surface with whitish dots, as in some Sonerilas. 6s. 
MARANTA PICTA. 
Aw'ard of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society. 
A most ornamental and distinct species introduced from Brazil. It is of compact growth, the 
blade of the leaf broadly lanceolate acuminate, wavy at the margin, of a rich velvety deep green 
colour, strikingly ornamented with a central variegation of yellowish green, the colour extending 
along the upper side of each principal vein nearly half-way across the loaf blade, thence decreasing 
in a premorse manner to the base of the next vein. The under side of the leaf is of a deep claret 
colour. 6«. and 7«. 6d. 
