. John Saul's catalogue of plants for the spring of 1889. wers, ot a rich orange hue, render it a very striking stove plant. 40 cents. *DRACiENA GOLDIEANA. One of the most maffnificent ornamental foliaged plants ever introduced, amd altogether unique in characterand aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of erect habit, and the stems are closely setwith stalked spreading leaves, the ])etioles uf which are of a grajish color, terete with a narrow furrow alout; theupifcr side, the base being dilated and sheathing the stem. The base of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminatew
. John Saul's catalogue of plants for the spring of 1889. wers, ot a rich orange hue, render it a very striking stove plant. 40 cents. *DRACiENA GOLDIEANA. One of the most maffnificent ornamental foliaged plants ever introduced, amd altogether unique in characterand aspect. It is a native of Western Tropical Africa. The plant is of erect habit, and the stems are closely setwith stalked spreading leaves, the ])etioles uf which are of a grajish color, terete with a narrow furrow alout; theupifcr side, the base being dilated and sheathing the stem. The base of the leaf is cordate-ovate acuminatewith a yellowish-green costa, and banded with dark green and silver-gray in alternate straight or furcate bands,the colors l>eing about equally distributed. Tlie back of tlie unrolled leaves is a pale reddish-purple or winecolor-, and the stem where visible at the upper joints is of similar hue, the lower parts becoming green. It is,without doubt, one of the finest of all stove plants, and indispensable in all fiist-class collections. $ to §2 DRACiENA GOLDIEANA. CURMERIA WALLISII. The leaves are spreading and marked with very irregular dark green raaculations. some running out fromthe green costa and others situated near t!ie edge. The intermediate spaces are furnished with broadish patcho^:of very pale yellowish-green, which in the more matured leaves becomes a greenish grey. The colors are aboutequally dispersed, though the marking is very irregular, both as to the size and form of the blotches. § PEPEROMA PROSTRATA. A very ornamental basket plant, with slender creeping stems, and alternate round variegated leaves. 25 cents. ,.»—^ ARDISIA OLIVERI. Ardisia Oliveri is a Stove shrub of remarkably striking appearance, with recurved foliage and large globularheads of flowers like those of an Ixora, but of pink color. ^The plant was introduced from Costa Rica by the lateM. Endres. 30 cents. 14 JOHiV SAILS DESCHIPTIYE CATALOGUE *Nepenthes,Coccinea(Hamiltoniana),
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