NEW, EAEE AND DESIEABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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HIBISCUS EOSA SINENSIS MINIATUS SEMI-PLENUS. 
This remarkably showy stove plant has fii’m, almost leathery, ovate leaves, which are coarsely 
toothed, and brilliant flowers of a vennilion scarlet colour, darker towards the base of the petals. 
The flowers arc semi-double, the petals very much waved and recurved, forming an irregular 
undulated mass four inches across, from wliich the partially petaloid staminal column projects two 
inches. The brilliant and attractive flowers are remarkable for the absence of fonnality, the shape 
being wild, and abounding in fantastic curves, but nevertheless they are remarkably handsome. It 
has been imported from the South Sea Islands. 3s. 6(L 
HIBISCUS ROSA SINENSIS ZEBRINUS. 
A very distinct and handsome variety with double flowers, which are beautifully flaked and striped. 
The individual blossoms are about three and a half inches in breadth, and two and a half inches in 
depth ; the five outer petals scarlet edged with creamy-yellow in the lower part. The staminal 
column is entirely petaloid, with a few large pctal-like bodies, forming numerous irregular tufts at the 
apex, of a creamy -yellow colour, variously and irregularly striped and flaked with scarlet. 3«. Gd. 
