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NEW PLANTS. 
CROTON MAGNIFICENT. 
A very striking’ and most handsome variety, with ovate lanceolate leaves, from six to eight 
inches long by two and a half inches wide. In the young state the leaves have a central variegation 
of rich golden yellow ; as the leaves mature the margins become deep olive green, while the midrib 
and primary veins, with a narrow band on each side of the costa, assume a bright carmine tint. In 
some instances the bright golden colour of the young loaves gradually becomes heavily suffused with 
bright carmine. 2U. 
CROTON MONARCH. 
A most ornamental and effective variety, introduced from the Antipodes. It is of good habit 
and has oblong acute, dark green leaves, richly spotted and maculated in the most pleasing manner 
with bright yellow. The leaves attain a length of abovit twelve inches, and are about two and a half 
inches in width, while the .spots vary in size, in some instances taking the form of large 
blotches. 15«. 
CROTON VICTORY. 
A magnificent variety with a very effective variegation of bright crimson. The mature leaves 
are about a foot long by two and a half inches bi’oad, of a deep olive green oolom-, with rich crimson 
veins and costa, from which extends in an arcuate manner, a rich coloration of reddish-crimson, the deep 
green of the laminae between the primary veins being broken up in an irregular manner by the same 
bright colour. Wlieu in a young state the leaves arc deep orange-yellow, suffused with crimson. 21s. 
CYPRIPEDIUM SAUNDERSIANITM. 
One of the most remarkable and distinct hybrid Cypripedivims yet rai.sed, obtained by crossing 
C. caudalitm and C. SMimii. It has large bright red-mauve flowers ; the dor.sal sex>al, oblong 
triangular, white with purple and green stripes ; lateral sepals, broad and wavy, white, green at the 
top ; the broad ligulate petals arc undulate and of a fine rbddish-purple. The pouch is very hemis- 
pheric in front, and of a bright red-mauve colour. The leaves are bright green. Trico on application. 
DRACiENA ARGENTEO-STRIATA. 
An extremely elegant narrow-leaved species, imported from the South Sea Islands. It has linear 
lanceolate bright green leaves, beautifully striated and occasionally margined with creamy- white, the 
bright green being also relieved with streaks of silvery grey. It is of exceptionally neat habit, and 
admirably adapted for table decoration and other ornamental purposes. Por illustration, vide iiage 3. 
0 guineas. 
EOMICON CHIONANTHA. 
A very pretty half-hardy perennial Papaveraceous plant, a native of China. The flowers, which 
are borne on erect thin panicles about a foot high, are pure white, two inches in diameter, the 
numerous stamens and anthers being yellow. The pale green radicle leaves, are broadly eordiforin, 
thinly coriaceous in texture, with a sinuate margin, the petioles being long and slender, with a 
narrowly sheathing base. This chanuing and dcsii'able introduction should be grown in the cold 
greenhouse or frame. It has been figured in the ISotaiiicul Maaazine, Tab. G871. 10.«. 6rf. 
ESMERALDA BELLA. 
A new and very distinct Orchidaceous plant, with short and broad shining- unequally bilobed 
leaves, and elegant flowers. The sepals and petals are light ochre, mth fine bars of warm cinnamon ; 
the lip, white ; the side lacinise having pui-ple-brown stripes, margin chestnut-bren-n. The basilar 
roundish callus is white, spotted with brown, and tlio coliunn, ochre coloured, full of reddish spots. 
It has been fully described by Professor Reichenbach, in the Gardenm’ Chronicle for February 4th, 
1888. Price on application. 
MUSS^ENDA ERYTHROPHYLLA. 
A remarkable introduction from the Congo. It is of .shrubby habit, and produces heads of the 
richest dazzling scarlet bracts, which are roundish ovate in form, about three and a-half inches long, 
by three inches wide ; at the base of each bract are boi-ne on short pedicels three or four funnel- 
shaped flowers, of a sulphur-yellow colour, the whole plant, including the bracts and flowers, being 
covered with a silky pubescence. The leaves are opposite, roundish ovate, and of a bright green 
colour. For illustration, Wrff page 5. 1 guinea. 
NIDULARIUM STRIATUM. 
Tins striking and oi-namental Bromeliaceous plant has been imported from Brazil. It has bright 
green leaves from eight to twelve inches long, most effectively striped or striated with a central white 
variegation, deepening off to a creamy-yellow, rendering it a most charming and attractive decorative 
plant. The margins of the leaves are freely furnished with small spinose teeth. For illustration, 
ride page 6. 5 guineas. 
