NEW PLANTS. 
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PANAX CKISPATTJM. 
A very dwarf and compact growing stove plant, introduced from Brazil. It is densely furnished 
with triangular pinnately divided deep green leaves, consisting of several pairs of overlapping 
leaflets and a terminal one, each of which is deeply incised and slightly toothed on the margin, thus 
giving the plants a crispy and very ornamental appearance. The stem and petioles are of a deep 
olive green colour, sparsely spotted with lighter green. 10s. 
PANAX LEPIDUM. 
This distinct and compact ornamental stove plant is of dense habit ■with bitematc leaves of a 
rich deep green colour, the leading division surpassing the others in size ; in the secondary divisions 
the lateral pinnulte are obliquely obovate, the inner portions of the two blades almost covering the 
small centre pinnule, which is deflexed and in some instances almost rudimentary. The outside 
margins are deeply incised in an irregular manner and spinosely toothed. It has been imported from 
Brazil. 7s. 6d. 
PANAX NITIDUM. 
A pretty evergreen stove plant of dense and compact habit, imported from Brazil. The stems 
and petioles are of a brownish or deep olive green colour, spotted or inarmorated with yellowish- 
green ; the deep green leaves are roundish obovate appressed at the apex, the margins being furnished 
with short teeth slightly spinose ; the front portion of the leaves is sometimes deeply indented with 
two, three, or more incisions. 7s. Qd. 
PANAX ORNATUM. 
An elegant growing ornamental stove i)lant introduced from Brazil. It has long pinnate leaves, 
the piniue being naiTow lanceolate deeply toothed on the margins, the indentations often foi’ming 
long iiTOgularly shaped blunt teeth. The stems diid petioles are dark brownish -green freckled or 
spotted with light green. 7s. 6d. 
PAVETTA NATALENSIS. 
A shrubby growing stove plant, imported from Natal, producing large and extremely handsome 
dense c}Tnose heads of salver shaped snow-white flowers, furnished with very long exserted styles. 
The leaves are lanceolate and of a bright shining dark green colour. For illustration, vide page 4. 
1 guinea. 
PINANGA LEPIBA. 
An elegant growing stove palm, introduced from the East Indies. In the young state it has 
short rufescent petioles, the laminee being pinnately parted into iineqnal segments, proininoiitly 
veined on the iipper surface. When first developed the leaves have a brownish-crimson tint, 
gradually changing, as the foliage matures, to a deep lustrous green, faintly mottled with a darker 
shade. 1 guinea. 
GREENHOUSE RHOBOBENDRON, BIANA. 
An extremely free flowering hybrid, producing fine heads of bloom even on small plants. The 
individual flowers have long tubes, and are of a delicate blush pink colour, the petals being somewhat 
crimped and wa\'y. I0,v. 6^/. 
GREENHOUSE RHODODENDRON, FAIR ROSAMOND. 
A most charming variety producing fine trusses of delicate blush tinted flowers of large size, 
the petals being of good .'<hape and substance, prettily ciimped and undulated on the margins. This 
handsome hybrid is extremely free flowering, and forms a desirable addition to the greenhouse or 
conservatoiy. 10.?. Gd. 
NEW ERECT FLOWERED GLOXINIAS. 
ALPHA, dark crimson lobes and throat, the base of throat spotted with crimson ; lobes shading off 
to rose. 5.?. 
CASINO, the mouth of throat rich crimson ; lobes shading off to rose; base of throat spotted with 
rose. 5s. 
LUCRECB, mouth of throat rich magenta, surrounded with purplish-lilac ; white margin, os. 
SARNIA, throat spotted with rose, mouth fiery crimson, lobes blush pink. 5-t. 
For General Collection, vide page 112. 
NEW SPOTTED PELARGONIUMS. 
ARGUS, blush ground suffused with pink, a maroon blotch on all the petals, surrounded with fiery 
crimson, feathered at the base. 10«. i i • i j. 
RUBIS, centre of upper petals dark maroon, surrounded with fiery crimson, margined with bright 
rose ; lower petals clear rose spotted with crimson. lOs. Gd. 
For General Collection, vide page 114. 
