MARCGRAVIA paradoxa [71] (Trop. America), unusual 
warmhouse climber with round leaves, clinging shingle-like 
to trunks of trees. 6.00 to 10.00. 
MEDINILLA magnifica [72] (Philippines), one of most gor- 
geous tropical plants in cultivation; broad leathery foliage; 
rosy-pink flowers borne in large pendulous racemes, 3.50, 
DOOM 1LO:00) 
MIMOSA pudica [25] (Brazil), Sensitive Plant; when the 
pinnate foliage is touched, the petiole falls and the leaflets 
cloSerme DC 7). OO emia 0: 
MUEHLENBECKIA Platyclada [75] (Solomon Islands), Tape- 
worm Plant; small plant 75c, medium 2.00. 
MUSA cavendishi (South China), Chinese dwarf banana, 
medium plant 10.00, large 15.00. 

$44 
NEPENTHES 80 
NEPENTHES [80] (East Indies and Malaya) : 
Flesh-eating tropical Pitcher Plants. 
They require a moist-warm temperature of 70 to 80°F with an 
abundance of water in summer to form their curious 
pitchers which will catch and devour insect life. 
NEPENTHES atrosanguinea, pitchers greenish yellow overlaid 
with rich maroon, very handsome, small plant 5.00, medium 
OO" 
NEPENTHES Dominii, strong growth, leathery foliage; flask 
shaped, dull-green pitchers spotted with red, small plant 
S100 medium 2507 b0:00: 
NEPENTHES intermedia, larger pitchers than Dominii, dull 
green, small plant 3.00, medium 7.50, 10.00. 
NEPENTHES Williamsi, mugshaped pale pitcher with carmine 
red design and red rim, interior marked red; 15.00. 

NEPHTHYTIS Emerald Gem [11], crinkled leaf, slow growing 
creeper, small plant 50c. 
NEPHTHYTIS Liberica (Liberia), Tropical creeper, arrow- 
shaped foliage, small plant 35c. 
NEPHTHYTIS picturata (Congo), large arrow-shaped leaf 
variegated with white in a pattern resembling the tips of fern 
fronds laid between the nerves, 5.00 to 10.00. 
NEPHTHYTIS triphylla, trilobed, marked silver, PASieh 
OPHIOPOGON Japonicus (Korea), dark green, dwarf grassy 
tufts, small plant 50c. 
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