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NEW PLANTS. 
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NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL, F.LS. 
DIANELLA TASMANICA VAEIEGATA. 
A very striking and desirable variegated greenhouse plant introduced from Tasmania. The 
leaves, which are broadly ensifomi and minutely spinose on the margins, are dark green, handsomely 
striated with creamy yellow, fonning a very effective variegation. The pale blue flowers are produced 
on a loose, many-branched panicle, and are followed in due course by large and handsome bright 
blue berries. These hang on hair-like pedicels, and for many weeks form a highly ornamental 
and conspicuous adornment to the conservatory. 21s. 
GESNERA, CALYPSO. 
A pretty hybrid variety raised from Bonkelaari crossed with macrantha partaking of the 
characters of both parents. The flowers, which are freely homo in compound terminal heads, are 
about 2j inches long, of a soft shade of salmon crimson, much brighter on the lobes ; the throat is 
cream coloui’ed with dark crimson markings showing through the exterior of the flowers. 7«. 6d. 
For other Tuberous-rooted Gesneras, vide page 17. 
H.2EMANTHUS CANDIDUM. 
A most beautiful white-flowered species introduced from the Transvaal. It belongs to the 
distichous leaved gi’oup, and produces its handsome spikes of flowers from the side of the bulb, 
usually after developing a pair of leaves. The scape, which is about 9 inches long, canies a large 
douse head of pure white flowers, of which the, petals are semi-erect, the charming appearance of 
the heads of bloom being gi’eatly enhanced by the golden yellow anthers borne on the tips of much 
exserted filaments. The coriaceous leaves are sessile, spathulate, spreading and recurved, about 
9 inches long by 4 to 5 inches broad in the widest part, and thickly pubescent on both surfaces. 21s. 
PHYLLANTHUS ELONGATUM. 
A pretty ornamental species introduced from Brazil. The leaves are alternately pinnate, the 
leaflets flat, linear-lanceolate, tapering to both ends, entire at the base, remotely and finely toothed 
near tlie apex. It wiU form a very elegant evergreen plant for the warm greenhouse or stove, 
especially suitable for table and other decorative purposes. 1 Os. 6<f. 
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