NEW -PLANTS. 
9 
X 8 9 3. 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 
AGLAONEMA VERSICOLOR. 
All attractive ornamental foliage plant, belonging to the Aroid family, introduced from the East 
Indies. It is of neat growth and bears on an erect stem beautifully mottled shortly stalked 
spreading leaves, the petioles sheathing with membraneous edges. The leaf blades obliquely oblong, 
rounded at the base, acute at the apex, irregularly blotched with patches of dark velvety green, 
interspersed among patches of lighter gi’een, and some of milky white. This pretty variegated plant 
should be grown in the .stove. Vide illustration, page 3. 15 n. 
ANTHURIUM SCHERZERIANUM ROSEUM. 
An extremely pretty variety of the well-known. Flamingo Plant, ^Anthurium Schei'zerianitm, 
producing charming rose-coloured spathes flushed with salmon, in striking contrast to the rich 
scarlet spathes of the type. Owing to the enduring character of the spathes, Authuriums are most 
desirable plants for the decoration of Stove-houses and Conservatories. 1 and H guinea. 
ANTHURIUM SCHERZERIANUM SANGUINEUM. 
A very handsome and distinct variety of the well known A. ScherzerianuiUf dift'eriug from the 
type in the colour of its spathes, which, instead of being bright scarlet, are of a deep blood-red or 
dark crimson colour. As an ornamental stove plant this is a most desirable acquisition for exhibition, 
or for any decorative pui'pose, its attfactive spathes, like those of the type, lasting a long time in 
perfection. 1 and guinea. 
CYRTANTHUS INTERMEDIUM. 
A pretty hybrid variety raised between C. McKennii and C. angustifolium. It has neat strap- 
shaped leaves, and bears on an erect two-edged scape a truss of many flowers, which are orange- 
pink, and about 1| inch long, b^w^g oqi*v,ed and.^tuhidar trunip,et-ahap,ed the three outer segments 
or lobes are rose coloured with a ^’eeh midrib, the* inner three l^ing of a ‘uniform rose colour. 5». 
DAVALLIA CONCINNA. 
5 ., ■ All , elegant growing evergreen Stove Fern introduced from North Australia,, It has a stout 
creeping root stock, from which rise purplish leaf stalks, beariiig subcoriaoeous fronds of a pale olive- 
green colour^ glabrous on both surfaces, deltoid-acuminate, compoundly divided in a tripinnate 
manner into piume and pinnules, the ultimate segments being. oblong»obovate, wedge-shaped at the 
base, and remotely crenate at the apex. 10.v. Qd. and Ion. 
