NEW PLANTS. 
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NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME, 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
AGLAONEMA PICTA COMPACTA. 
An ornamental and interesting- stove plant, witli very short erect green stems and stalked leaves, 
the petioles of -n-hich are slieathing green, -with a membranous whitish margin. The leaf-blades are 
short, oblong-ovate, acuminate, unequal-sided, of a dark sai) green, sparingly blotched with grey, 
and of a pale green beneath. The spathes are green, pointed, with the outer surface shining. This 
plant is a native of Java. lOj. Cd. 
ALOCASIA MARGINATA. 
A striking and ornamental Aroidaccous plant, introduced from Brazil. TIic leaf-blade is about 
twenty inches long by twelve inches wide, broadly coi-date, rounded into a sharply pointed apex ; 
the basal lobes are five to six inches long, oblong, very obtusely rounded at the apex, with a deep 
narrow sinus between. The upper leaf sm-face is of a dai-k gi-een colour, the reverse being slightly 
tinted purple, with pale reddish midrib and nerves. The petioles, which are sheathing for nearly 
half their length, are marked with u-regular zig-zag bars of blackish-brown, the margin of th<i 
sheath having a band of the same colour, in reference to which the plant has been named. 15s. 
ALOCASIA PRINCEPS. 
Tills ornamental and effective stove plant has been imported from the Malay Ai-chipciago. 
It has slender petioles of a greyish -green colour, heavily marmorated with chocolate-brown ; the 
leaf-blades are saggitate, the hinder lobes narrow and spreading, forming a triangular open sinus, 
while the margins are deeply sinuous, imparting to the plant a very distinct character. On the 
upper surface the leaves are of a metallic olive-green colour, darkening along the midrib and 
primary veins ; the under surface is g-i-eyish green, the veins being round and prominent, of a dark 
chocolate-brown colour, a well defined marg-in of the same tint .sun-ounding the entire leaf. 
1^ guinea. 
APHELANDRA AM(ENA. 
A very pretty ornamental foliaged stove plant, with ovate acuminate leaves of a deep green 
colour, very attractively variegated with silvery grey on each side of the midi-ib and primary veins, 
which curve gi-acefully forward in the direction of the apex. It has been introduced from 
Brazil. 10s. fid. 
ARDISIA POLYCEPHALA. 
An attractive ben-y-bearing stove shrub, introduced from the East Indies. It is of free growth, 
and has opposite dark glossy green leaves, which, when young, are of a charming bright crimson 
colour, imparting to tlie plant a most distinct appearan<!e. Tlie flowers are white, borne in umbels 
on short lateral branches, being succeeded in due cour.se by jet black berries. 10s. 6 ( 1 . & 1.5s. 
CROTON DELIGHT. 
An extremely handsome variety, imported from the Antipode.s. It has oblong acute leaves, six 
to eight inches long by one and a half to two inches wide. In the yomig state they arc of a bright 
yellow colour, margined with green, the costa and pi-imary veins being cream coloui-ed ; as the leaves 
attain maturity, the bright central variegation changes to a clear ivory-white, with here and there a 
few dots of the same colour scattered through the margin of the leaf. A very effective and pleasing 
variety. 21s. 
CROTON JUNIUS, 
A very elegant variety, with long naiTOW foliage of varying character ; in some instances the 
midrib is excurrently extended and attached to another portion of the leaf-blade, while in others the 
leaves are entire, with slightly undulate margins. In the young state the lower half of the leaves 
is bright lemon-yellow, which, as the foliage attains age, becomes suffused with crimson, the 
remaining portion being rich bronzy green, a coloration in striking contrast to the bright orange- 
scarlet of the stem and petioles. 21.?. 
