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NEW, EAEE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
NEPHTHYTIS PICTTJRATA. 
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 the apex ; the colour is 
bright green with a silvery- white variegation between the nerves. This variegation is peculiar 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 the leaf. 21». 
