SELECT LIST OP NEW AND EAEE STOVE PLANTS, 
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FICUS EADICANS VARIEGATA. 
Awarded a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. 
This charming and effective variety of Ficus radicans is without doubt destined to become ‘ ‘ a 
plant for everyone,” its easy culture, effective variegation and regular growth making it one of the 
best ornamental variegated plants ever sent out. The elegant appearance of this pretty plant and' 
its effective variegation are most striking, the leaves being freely and irregularly margined with white, 
the variegation sometimes extending to nearly the entire leaf, some of the young shoots and leaves 
being wholly white. As a variegated plant for a hanging pot or vase it cannot be excelled, while 
its bright and cheerful variegation will commend it to everyone as an ideal plant for the margins of 
stages and growing as single plants round sticks or on a trellis. ]'ide illustration, page 8. 2s. 6d. 
FICUS REPENS VARIEGATA. 
A variegated form of this useful wall- creeper, the leaves being prettily marmorated and speckled 
with creamy white. 3s. 6d. 
GMELINA HYSTRIX. 
A scandent plant from the East Indies, with the habit of a Bougainvillea, and therefore 
most suitable for covering the roofs and pillars of stoves. Tlie flowers are of a very decorative 
character, most fi-eely borne in dense terminal drooping spikes formed of acuminate bracts, 
beautifully veined with purplish red. The corolla is nearly 3 inches long and golden yellow. 3s. 6d. 
GRAPTOPHYLLUM PtCTURATUM. 
A very striking and effective stove plant of free growth, fm-nished with opposite lanceolate 
leaves, having a central variegation of rich golden yellow, maturing with age into creamy yellow. 5s. 
GRIFFIN I A HYACINTHINA. 
An extremely handsome and ornamental free-flowering bulbous plant from Brazil. The flower 
scape is about a foot high, and bears an umbel of from fifteen to twenty flowers of a beautiful bluish 
lilac colour, shading oft' to white at the base of the segments. 6s. and Is. 6d. 
HYPOLYTRUM SCHRADERIANUM. 
An ornamental Cypei'aceous plant from Brazil. The leaves are crowded in bold triangular 
tufts, green with purplish-red margins, traversed on the upper surface by two ribs running 
equidistant from base to apex. The bold triangular tuft of leaves, the colour, and the peculiar 
venatiou of tlic leaves, give to this plant a very di.stinct appearance. 31«. 6<f. 
JASMINUM NITIDUM. 
A charming new species of skmder gi'owth, introduced from the Admiralty Islands, produciuga 
profusion of deliciously scented snow-white flowers, born in three-flowered umbels. Tlie blossoms, 
which are composed of ten to twelve ray-like petals, are large, and have an exceedingly elegant and 
graceful appearance. The leaves are obovate, of a bright shining green colour. This pretty new 
species will be found a charming addition to warm-house climbers. Vide illustration, page 10. 6s. 
KENDRICKIA WALKEEI. 
A handsome climbing Melastomaceous plant introduced from Ceylon. The flowers are large 
and are borne in terminal umbels, the calyx rosy purple, the four fleshy petals nearly an inch long, 
being coloured bright red. The creeping stems, which support themselves by means of aerial roots, 
have opposite ovate or oblong fle.shy leaves about 1 J inch long, the margins clothed with glandular 
hairs, and tlie surface with whitish dots, as in some Sonerilas. 6s. 
MARANTA PICTA. 
Award of Merit, Royal Horticultural Society. 
A most ornamental and di.stinct .species introduced from Brazil. It is of compact growth, (he 
blade of the leaf broadly lanciiolate acuminate, wavy at the margin, of a rich velvety deep green 
colour, sti'ikingly oniamented with a central variegation of yellowish green, the colour extending 
along the iqiper side of each principal vein nearly half-way across the leaf blade, thence decreasing 
in a premorsc manner to the base of the next vein. The under side of the leaf is of a deep claret 
colour. 6». and 7«. 6d. 
