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JASMINUM NITIDUM. 
A charming new species of slender growth, introduced from the Admiralty Islands, producing a 
profusion of deliciously scented snow-white flowers, home in three-flowered umbels. The blossoms, 
which are composed of ten to twelve ray-like petals, are large, and have an exceedingly elegant and 
graceful appearance. The leaves are obovate, of a bright sliining green colour. This pretty new 
species will be found a charming addition to warm-house climbers. Vide Illustration facing page 2. 
10». 6d. 
LICUALA MUELLERI. 
A pretty ornamental unarmed Palm of good habit, a native of Rockingham Bay. In a young 
state the leaves are plicate, divided nearly to the base into truncate lobes or segments obtusely 
toothed and jagged. The foliage is bright green, closely veined with dark green, thus giving it a 
maculated or mottled appearance. When more matiu'e the whole leaf is closed all round so as to 
appear peltate, forming a flat shield-like disc. 10». 6d., 16s. and 21». 
NEKINE CANDIDA. 
A lovely and chaste pure white variety of this well-known and favourite genus of greenhouse 
bulbous plants, bearing on erect scapes large heads consisting of from fifteen to twenty flowers, each 
about two inches in diameter. The blossoms are most elegant in form, the six segments extending 
in the shape of an open fan, undulated on the margins and of a glistening snowy whiteness, 
producing a most charming effect. The leaves are of a rich green colour-. lOj. Gd. 
POLYPODIUM IRIOIDES LOBATUM. 
A handsome variety with bright green coriaceous leaves contracted at the base into very short 
stipes. It is remarkable, and varies from the type in the tips of the fronds breaking up into lobes, 
some of the leaves bearing as many as ten to twelve segments at the apex. This Feni is of robust 
growth and valuable for decorative purposes. It has been introduced from Queensland. 10s, Gd. 
RHODODENDRON FORDII. 
This new species is a native of the Island of Lantao, China, where it was found by Mr. C. Ford’s 
native collector. It is of shrubby habit, bearing thick coriaceous leaves, varying considerably in 
shape at different periods of growth and in different plants, some being lanceolate, others nearly 
oval, and still others obovate ; the underside in the younger stages of growth is generally covered 
with a thick ferrugineous pubescence, becoming glabrous with age. The flowers are white, of 
medium size, and borne as usual in corymbs. 7». Gd. 
NEW GREENHOUSE RHODODENDRONS. 
The following are all Greenhouse varieties, bearing their charming heads of bloom in the most 
profuse manner. 
ANACSEON. — Very rich bright cherry carmine flowers, well shaped and most pleasing and 
distinct in colour. 10». Gd. 
AURELIA. — Rich golden yellow flowers of good shape, borne in fine trusses. 10*. Gd. 
CLAUDIA. — Grand trusses of large well-shaped, rich orange-buff flowers, anthers of a pretty 
magenta pink colour. 10s. Gd. 
CEDRUS. — Well-shaped salmon -scarlet flowers, tubes being of a light straw colour ; very bright 
and distinct. 10s. Gd. 
DORIS. — An exceedingly pretty variety bearing fine trusses of pretty creamy yellow flowers. 
10s. Gd. 
For other New Sorts, vide page 26. 
