. John Saul's catalogue of plants for the spring of 1889. sh 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
. John Saul's catalogue of plants for the spring of 1889. sh 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), pitchersabout G inches long by 6 in width, crimson,slightly speckled with yellow, flask-shaped,pointed at the base, distended below the mid-dle, broadly cylindric above; rim broad, finelyribbed, ribs , red and blackish;throat greenisn, speckled with red; lid ovateoblong, smaller than the mouth, greenish,striped and speckled with red 2 50 NEPENTHES, PITCHER PLANT. Each. PITCHER PLANT, ?Sedeni, the pitchers are produced freely evenon very small plants; they are of mediumsize, oblong, dilated at the base, narrowedabove the centre: and slightly expandedtowards the top; in color they are a darkgreen densely covered with dark red spots 2 50 *Nepenthes, Hookerii, a magnificent species ofrobust habit; tiie leaves are long and broad,sup-porting fine large pitchers upwardsof 4 inchesin ienith and 2 inches in diameter; the groundcolor is dark green, which is profusely streaked and blotched with dark red . 2 50 *Laevis, of very free growth, producing its pitch-ers freely of moderate size, of a bright green color, shaded with reddish brown 50 cts. to 1 50 *Nepenthes, Gracilis Major, a plant ofliee growth and compact habit; itspitchers are produced very abun-dantly; the ground color is darkgreen, over which is a profusion of dark reddish brown spots 75 cts. to 1 50 *Dominii,abeautitul pitcher plant, pro-du
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