NEW PLANTS 
ANNOUNCED FOR THE FIRST TIME 
BY 
WILLIAM BULL & SONS. 
AGAPANTHUS INSIGNIS. 
Tliis striking new Agapnntlius has l)oen imported from Soutli Africa, and forms a very 
desirable addition to plants suitable for Cousorvatoiy decoration. The strap-liko arching leaves 
are bright green, the basal portion milk white, this colour extending some distance up the midrib. 
The inflorescence is produced on stout erect scapes crowned with immense heads, consisting of a 
multitude of elegant lilac flowers faintly shaded with lavender. The individual blossoms are 
borne on very long pedicels, thus forming magnificent spherical heads of bloom very strilcing and 
effective in appearance. ' rirfs illustration, page ii. 21.'i. 
CESPEDESIA DISCOLOR. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
This striking ornamental Stove Plant belongs to the Natural Order Ochmeece, and ds one 
of a small group of South American trees, bearing showy yellow flowers in large braotless 
panicles. The chief decorative feature of C. discolor, however, lies in the ornamental coloration 
of its young growth, which is rapidly developed from terminal buds, the five or six long 
drooping lanceolate leaves composing it being of a pale cinnamon buff, or biscuit colour, faintly 
8u:ffu8ed with rose and veined with pale yellow, forming a striking contrast to the dark green 
of the mature loaves. illustration, page iii. 21s. 
EPIPHYLLUM DELICATUM. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
A charming new species introduced from Brazil, producing a profusion of wax-like blush- 
tinted flowers. It is in many respects similar to the well-known E. truncation, but differs in the 
following particulars : — The flowers are larger, much lighter in colour, of more regular formation, 
the petals being longer and less I’eflexed, while the tube of the corolla and style are less abruptly 
bent at the base. In growth it is more erect, the broad flat segments being oval in outline with 
three or four acute teeth on each margin. The flowers are terminal, white, tinted with delicate 
rose pink or blush, a narrow ring of carmine surrounding the mouth of tube, from which protrude 
the long curved style and yellow anthers. Vide illustration, page i. 21«. 
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