NEW, EAEE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
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NEPHTHYTIS PICTURATA. , 
A very distinct and ornamental stove Aroid from the Congo, remarkable for the handsome 
variegated character of its foliage. The plant is stcmless, with terete green petioles growing about 
a foot high, and brOadly ovate-hastate leaves, which are abruptly pointed at the apex ; the colour is 
bright green with- a silvery- white variegation between the nerves. This variegatioii is peculiar and 
quite uniqjie in character, forming a pattern resembling in outline the tips of. fern fronds laid 
between the nerves, with their points all directed towards tlie base of the leaf. 21*. 
