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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS FULGIDUS. 
This magTiificcut variety, which was obtained from the South Sea Islands, is remarkable alike 
for the size, colour and marking’ of its brilliant flowers. The leaves are broadly ovate, with coarsely 
serrated mai’gins. The flowers are of very large size (five inches in diameter), composed of fine 
broad, rounded and beautifully undulated petals, of an intense cannine scai’let, paler and somewhat 
rosy-tinted towards the base, where on each petal is an oblong blotch of deep^ crimson, fonuing a 
blunt-rayed star in the centi-e of the flower. It is one of the finest varieties yet introduced. 3s. 6rf. 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS VIVICANS. 
A fine free-flowering stove plant of vigorous habit, with ovate stalked leaves, and remarkably 
large flowers, foui* and a half to five inches in diameter, full double, the centre being completely 
filled up with broad convolute petals, having tufts of stamens intermixed. The colour is a brilliant 
crimson scarlet. It is a very showy vaiiety, and was imported from the South Sea Islands. 5s, 
