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NEW PLANTS, 
PTYCHOCOCCUS PARADOXUS. 
An elegant Palm from New Guinea, originally described under the genus PUjchosperma. In the 
young state the leaves are sheathing at the base and two-lobed, the lobes being oblong wedge-shaped, 
obUque at tiie summit and jagged at the margins. When mature, the leaves are deeply pinnately 
divided, the pinnrn lanceolate, attached by a broad base to the triangular rachis, oblique at the apex 
and jagged, the two upper pinnae confluent at the base. 21*. 
TODEA MOOREI. 
A distinct and attractive new Filmy Fern introduced from Lord Howe’s Island. It bears a 
crown of handsome glabrous fronds, broadly lanceolate and thrice pinnately divided, the primary 
pinnae lanceolate and spreading horizontally, central ones about 4 inphes long by Ij wide, those at 
the base and apex shorter ; secondary pinnules oblong, decui-rent along the winged rachis, the 
lower pinnule of each pinna turned downwards, appre.ssed against the main rachis, and overlapping 
the corresponding pinnule of the neighbom-ing pinna; ultimate or tertiary segments linear oblong, 
obtuse crenately toothed. The sori are circular, and placed at the base of some of the lowermost 
segments near the midrib. 1 J and 2 guineas. 
NEW SHOW PELARGONIUMS. 
ALTAIR, upper petals rosy carmine, hea\dly blotched and feathered with blackish maroon 
surrounded with fiery crimson, lower petals clear rose pink ; light centre. 10*. &d. 
DELVINO, blush veined with rose, the upper petals having a central blotch of blackish maroon, 
surrounded with bright crimson ; light centre. 10*. 6^7. 
For General Collection, vide page 88. 
NEW SPOTTED PELARGONIUMS, 
MELAS, a well shaped flower, upper petals heavily blotched with rich crimson maroon 
surrounded with fiory crimson shading to rose at the margin, lower petals rose, very distinctly 
spotted with maroon on crimson ; light centre. 10*. 6<7. 
SOCRATES, a large decorative flower, white tinted with blush, upper petals blotched and 
feathered with maroon on a ground colour of crimson lake, petals prettily undulated. 10*. 6d. 
For General Collection, vide page 89. 
NEW REGAL PELARGONIUM. 
DUCHESS OF YORK, a very distinct and pretty variety bearing large trusses of elegantly 
crimped and undulated flowers of a soft and pleasing shade of purplish magenta edged with white, 
the upper petals feathered with a darker shade of the same colour ; light centre. 10*. 6<7. 
For General Collection, vide page 87. 
NEW HYBRID PELARGONIUM. 
LUCINDA, a pretty new hybrid variety with scented leaves, producing trusses of medium sized, 
wen shaped white flowers, the upper petals being marked and feathered with purplish crimson. 7s.6cf. 
NEW DOUBLE-FLOWERED IVY-LEAVED PELARGONIUMS. 
CLOVIS, good trusses of bright rosy carmine flowers, npper petals feathered with crimson. 's.6d. 
DAPHNE, flowers soft carmine rose, prettily marked in the upper petals with crimson 
maroon. 7*. Orf. 
MENCIO, largo semi-double flowers of a rich shade of rosy carmine, shaded with magenta. 7s.6(f. 
For General Collection, vide page 90. 
