NEW PLANTS. 
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NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BT 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
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ANEUIA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 
This pretty oniainental species is one of those popularly known as flowering Ferns. It is of 
tufted habit with spreading barren fronds and erect fertile ones. The stalks are at first coarsely 
hairy, subsequently becoming glabrescent ; sterile fronds oblong, ending in a long curled tendril. 
The pinna; are numerous and alternate, each broadly oblong obtuse, oblique and coareely toothed. 
When young tlie fronds are pinkish bronze, turning to green as they become mature. Tlie fertile 
fronds are in pairs, arising from between the basal pair of pinnse ; erect, linear oblong with 
numerous spore cases, borne in graceful spike-like panicles. Vide illustration, page 3. Has been 
awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 10s. 6d. and 16«. 
CEROFEOIA WOODI. 
A very ornamental and graceful trailing plant with slender greyish branches bearing small 
orbicular fleshy leaves, most prettily marbled with silvery white on the upper surface. Intermingled 
with the loaves are small globose tubers from which roots emerge. The flowers are pinkish in 
colour, tubular, distended at the base and expanding at the top into five dark pui-ple segments united 
at the tips in the form of a crown. The variegated foliage and curious structure commend this 
plant alike to the connoisseur and to the botanist. It is a native of Natal, and will form a most 
interesting and excellent basket plant for a warm greenhouse, and is suitable for rockeries or other 
decorative puiproses. lOj. 6rf. 
CRYPTANTHUS NITIDTJM. 
This exceedingly pretty omamental-foliaged Bromeliad has been imported from Brazil, and is 
remarkable for its compact rosette-like growth. It is a stemless species with densely crowded) 
spreading foliage of a most attractive character and neat growth. The leaves are sessile, lanceolate 
acuminate, wavy and denticulate at the margins, dark olive green, with a broad band of cream 
colour on either side of the midrib, heavily suffused with reddish pink. The under surface is silvery 
white with raised reticulations. 10«. 6rf. 
CYRTANTHUS, FLAMBEAU. 
A pretty hybrid variety of these charming free-flowering greenhouse bulbous plants. The 
flowers, which are borne in umbels on erect scapes, are of a bright carmine red, the segments being 
round and full and of good shape. 6j. 
DICKSONIA (CIBOTIUM) GLAUCA. 
This elegant Tree Fern has been introduced from the Sandwich Isles, and in the young state 
will be found a striking and ornamental Fern for the greenhouse. The fronds are spreading and 
bipinnate, oblong, acute in outline and glaucous beneath ; pinnse very numerous, alternate and 
linear lanceolate ; pinnules curved, oblong acute, with spore cases along the margins. The fronds are 
covered with rich golden brown hair. 10». 6rf. 
