NEW, EARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
NEPHTHYTIS PICTURATA. 
A very distinct and ornamental stove Avoid from the Congo, remarkable for the handsome , 
variegated character of its foliage. The plant is stemless, with terete green petioles growing about ► 
a foot high, and broadly ovate-hastate leaves, which are abruptly pointed at tlie apex ; the colour is ‘ 
bright green with a silvery-white variegation between the nerves. This variegation is p^uliar and 
quite unique in character, forming a pattern resembling in outline the tips of fern fronds laid . 
between the nerves, with their points all directed towards the base of tlie leaf. 2I«. ' 
