SELECT LIST OP NEW AND RAPE STOVE PLANTS 
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MIMOSA ARGENTEA, 
A pretty variegated species imported from Brasil, and ono of the same section as that 
to which the ordinary Sensitive Plant belongs. It is of climbing habit with very slender, hairy 
stems and branches, furnished with elegant bipinnate leaves. Each leaf bears two, rarely three, 
pairs of spreading pinnfe, each bearing about forty oblong leaflets, green at the tips and silvery grey 
on tlie basal half ; the rmder side of the leaflet is of a pinhish colour, as also are the young growths. 
This will be found a very neat and prctly climbing plant for the sto^. 5s. 
NIDULARIUM INNOCENTII STRIATUM. 
This striking and ornamental Bromeliaoeous plant has been imported from Brazil. It has bright 
green loaves from 8 to 1 2 inches long, most effectively striped or striated with a central white 
variegation, deepening off to a creamy-yellow, rendering it a moat charming and attractive decorative 
plant. The margins of tho leaves are furnished with small spinose teeth. Vide illustration, page 12. 
5s., 7«. 5d. and 10». 6d. 
PLEROMA CANDIDA. 
A free-flowering Melastomaoeous plant introduced from South Australia. It is of shrubby 
habit, well furnished with dark green ovate-lanceolate leaves, densely covered with soft 
silky hair, the five longitudinal veins very prominent on the under side. The flowers, 
which are borne in loose terminal heads, are individually about 1 J to 1| inch in diameter, the petals 
being of snowy whiteness. This will be found a desirable flowering plant for the warm 
conservatory or stove. 5s. 
RUBUS MOLUCCANUS (REFLEXUS). 
A free-growing ornamental climbing plant with five-lobed villose leaves, the middle lobe much 
extended. The leaf blades are greyish green, the central portions next the midrib and side ribs 
being dark olive green, producing a very effective variegation. 5s. 
SELAGINELLA WATSONI. 
A very pretty variegated Lycopod of compact plumose growth ; many of the branchlets 
are creamy white, while the segments of others are prettily margined with the same colour. 
2«. 5d., 3s. 5d. and 5s. 
STAPELIA GIGANTEA. 
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This remarkable plant was discovered in Zululand by the late Mr. R. W. Plant, and, unlike 
other species, is very easy of cultivation, succeeding admirably in any stove where an abundance of 
heat can be afforded. Tho pale green fleshy growths are terete and four-angled, the angles being 
furnished with small erect teeth. The flowers are of immense size, stellate in outline, full groTvn 
specimens attaining a diameter of 14 inches, the ground colour dull yellow closely barred with 
irregular short wavy lines of brownish red, the surface thickly clothed with soft reddish brown 
hairs. The corona is dark reddish purple, the middle lobe of the flower being produced into a 
small spur. 21«. 
TILLANDSIA LINDENIANA VERA. 
One of the most beautiful of tho Bromeliads ; a native of Ecuador, of dwarf compact growth, 
with recurved olive -green leaves. Tho flower scape bears an ovate flattened spike of a bright rosy 
hue, from the bracts of which issue in succession the beautiful lilac-blue flowers, the contrast of 
which with the rose-ooloured scape presents a most charming appearance. 5s., 7*. 6<f. and 10s. 6d. 
VRIESIA PURPURASCENS. 
A richly coloured Bromeliaoeous plant with deep purple sheathing leaves, each oblong lanceolate 
from a dilated base, the apex mueronate, tho margins having numerous closely-set fine teeth. On 
the upper surface the leaves are a dark green, flushed with blaokieh purple, while the under sides 
expose a surface of a striking rich purple colour. Introduced from Brazil. 16s. and 21s. 
