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NEW, EAP.E AND DESIEABLE STOVE TLANTS. 
NEPHTHYTIS PICTURATA. 
A very diftinct and ornamental stove Aroid from the Congo, remarkable for the Ijandsomo 
variegated eharaoter of its foliage. Tlie plant is atemlese, with terete green petioles growing about 
a foot high, and broadly ovate-hastate leaves, wliich are abruptly pointed at the apex ; the colour is 
bright green with a silvery- white variegation between the nerves. This variegation is peouliar and 
quite unique in character, forming a pattern resembling in outline the tips of fern fronds laid 
between the mrvcs, with tlieir pointe all duected towards the base of the leaf. 2Is. 
