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NEW PLANTS, 
DAVALLIA LUCIDA. 
A bold-looking' handsome Fem with deep shining-green coriaceous fronds. The root-stook is of 
the thickness of the hnger, and is covered with soft fihrillose scales. The stipes are wiry and support 
deltoid bipinnate fronds, the primary pinnae wedge-shaped at base, lanceolate-acuminate ; the secondary 
pinniB are broadly oblong, wedge-shaped and deeply lobed at the base, gradually less so towards the 
apex ; ultimate segments oblong obtuse, remotely and shallowly toothed at the margin. 10*. 6<f. 
DAVALLIA EPIPHYLLA. 
A specially elegant Fem in the way of D.fjiemtis, but quite distinct from it. The rootstock 
is creeping and covered with brown scales from which ascend wiry piu^le stipes as thick as a 
crow-quill, glabrous and deeply channelled. The fronds are subcoriaccous, deltoid in outline, three 
to four times pinnately divided, the larger pinnse deltoid-lanceolate, the pinnules narrow, wedge- 
shaped and deeply pinnately divided. It has been introduced from New South Wales. Vide 
Illustration, page 6. 10s. 6d. & 15s. 
QEONOMA ACAULIS. 
A dwarf, nearly stemless Brazilian Palm, with short, dilated, sheathing leaf stalks, destitute of 
spines, the young leaves roundish, deeply two-lobed at the apex, plicated erose, adult leaves deeply 
pinnately divided, pinnse lanceolate. It is a native of Northern Brazil and should be grown in the 
stove. Vide Illustration, page 4. 5 guineas. 
HELICONIA ILLUSTRIS. 
This handsome HeUconia 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 colour, supporting ovate-lanceolate spreading leaves, the prominent mid-rib of a beautiful rose- 
pink colour, the secondary veins, of which many run to the margin and form loops, being of the 
same brilliant colour. It will form, without question, a most superb adornment to our Stoves. 
Vide lUnstration, page 8. Price on application. 
HOPLOPHYTUM LINBATUM. 
A striking variegated Bromeliaceous plant from Brazil with cylindric tufts of leaves, spreading 
at the apex. The leaves are oblong strap-shaped, concave, abruptly acruninate, finely and remotely 
toothed, green, with alternating broad stripes of white. 2 & 3 guineas. 
HYPOLYTRUM SCHRADERIANUM. 
An ornamental Cyperaceous plant from Brazil. The leaves are crowded in bold triangular 
tufts ; each leaf is about 2 feet 6 inches in length by 2J Inches in breadth, purplish sheathing and 
folding at the base, expanding above into arching straped leaves of firm texture, green with 
purplish-red margins, traversed on the upper surface by two ribs running equi-distant from base 
to apex. The bold triangular tuft of leaves, the colour, and the peculiar venation of the leaves, 
give to this plant a very distinct appearance. Vide Illustration, page 5. 2 & 3 guineas. 
