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NEW, EAEE AND DESIEABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
FICUS RADICANS VAEIEGATA. 
This chaniiing and effective variety of Ficus radicans is without doubt destined to become ‘ ‘ a 
plant for everyone,” its easy culture, effective variegation and regular growth making it one of the 
best ornamental variegated plants ever sent out. The elegant appearance of this j)rctty plant and 
its effective variegation is most striking, the leaves being freely and irregularly margined with white, 
the variegation sometimes extending to nearly the entire leaf, some of the young shoots and leaves 
being wholly white. As a variegated plant for a hanging pot or vase it cannot be excelled, while 
its bright and cheerful variegation wiU commend it to everyone as an ideal plant for the margins of 
stages and growing as single plants round sticks or on a trellis. It was unanimously awarded a 
First Class Certificate by the Floral Committee of the Koyal Horticultural Society. illustration, 
page 12. 10.S. 6d. 
FITTONIA AnoTBONEUKA, 2». 6rf. 
0I8ASTEA, 2s. 6d. 
Peaboei, 2s. Grf. 
FBANCISCEA oalyoina, Ss. Gd. and 5s. 
OONFEBTIFLOBA (lauBIFOLIa), 3s. Gd. 
KXIMIA, 3s. Gd. 
LlfTDENI, 3s. Gd. 
• MAONIFIOA, 6s. 
VIOLAOEA GBANDIFIOEA, 3s. Gd. and OS. 
6ABCINIA LrviNOsiONi, lOs. Gd. 
DABDENIA oiteiodoiu, 3s. Gd. 
FLOBIDA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
QIOBOSA, 5s. 
BADICANS, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
6EIS80MEBIA mabmorata, 3s. Gd. 
GESNEBA Calypso, 5s. 
Duvalu, 3s. Gd. 
Leopoldii, 3s. Gd. 
AI.BO-CABMINEA, 3s. Gd. 
BOSBO-LILAOINA, 3s. Gd. 
MAOEANTHA, 2s. Gd. 
See also page 31. 
GLOBBA ALBA, 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
GLOBIOSA PuNTii, 2s. Gd. and 3s. 6<i. 
SUPERBA, 3s. 6rf. 
GLOXINIA, vide page 31. 
GOLDEUSSIA ANISOPHYLLA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
GONOLOBUS CuNDUEANQO, vide page 21. 
GEAPTOPHYLLUM PICTUEATUM. 
A very striking and effective stove plant of free growth, furnished with opposite lanceolate 
leaves, having a central variegation of rich golden yellow, maturing with age into creamy yellow. 5s. 
GEIFFINIA HYACINTHINA. 
An extremely handsome and ornamental free-flowering bulbou.s plant fi-om Brazil. The flower 
scape is about a foot hi^h, and bears an umbel of from fifteen to twenty flowers of a beautiful bluish 
lilac colour, shading oft to white at the base of the segments. 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
6UZMANNIA picta (Nidulabium puLaENS), | HEVEA beasiliensis (Para Mubher), 31s. Gd. 
7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. | HELICONIA aueeo-striata, 5s. and 7s. Gd. 
H^MANTHUS, vide page 21. \ bbevispatha, 10s. Gd. 
HELICONIA ILLUSTEIS. 
This handsome Heliconia is undoubtedly one of the most beautifully coloured foliage plants ever 
introduced. It comes from the South Sea Islands and is of Musa-like growth, the leaves being 
arranged in two ranks above and tufted at the base. The stalks are sheathing and of a bright rose- 
red colom-, supporting ovate-lanceolate spreading leaves, the prominent midrib of a beautiful rose- 
pink colour, the secondarj’’ veins, of which many ruu to the margin and form loops, being of the 
same brilliant colour. It will form, without question, a most superb adornment to our Stoves. 
5s., 7s. Gd. and 10s. Gd. 
HEMIGBAPHI8 COLOEATA, 3s. Gd. 
HIBI8CTTS Rosa sckensis albo-vabieqata, 
2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
Rosa sinensis beilliantissima, 2s. Gd. 
Dennisoni, 2s. Gd. 
intermedia, 5s. 
Lambertii, 2s. Gd. 
MAONIFICA, 6s. 
MINIATA SEMI- PLENA, 2s. Gd. 
PUNIOKA, 2.V. Gd. 
VIVIOANS, 3s. Gd. 
ZEBEINA, 3s. Gd. 
SCHIZOPETALUS, 3s. Gd. 
See also pages 21 and 28. 
HIPPEA8TBUM, vide AmaryUis. 
HOFFMANNIA (Hiooinsia) Ghiesbbeohtii, 
2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
Obtoiesii, 3s. Gd. 
EEFULOENS EOBUSTA, 3s. Gd. 
HOPLOPHYTTIM lineatum, 2 and 3 guineas. 
HOYA BELLA, 2s. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
OAMPANULATA, 3s. Gd. and 6s. 
OABNOSA, 2$. Gd. and 3s. Gd. 
iMPEEiALis, 3s. Gd. and 6s. 
HYDBOCOXYLE nitidota, 3s. Gd. 
HYMENOCALLI8 UACBOSTEFRA.NA, variouB sizes, 
from 5*. to 21«. 
Vide Pancratium. 
