Tab. 5376. 



ALOCASIA Lown. 



Mr. Low's Alocasia. 



Nat. Ord. Aroide.e. — Momecia Moxandiua. 

 Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tab. 5190.) 



Alocasia Lowii; acaulis, foliis longe petiolatis cordato-sagittatis acuminatis 

 supra atroviridibus sinu profundo, costis costulis raargineque crasso albis, 

 subtus purpureis, scapis basi vaginato-bracteatis superne teretibus albis, 

 spatha alba inferne convoluta globosa, lamina oblonga obtusa concava, 

 spadice spatha breviore, ovariis laxiusculis subglobosis viridibus, stylo 

 nullo, stigmate sessili lobis 5 profundis acutis. 



This is another of the many handsome species of Alocasia of 

 which I can find no description, and lately introduced from the 

 Malayan Archipelago. It has been received by Messrs. Hugh Low 

 and Son, of the Clapton Nursery, from Borneo. It flowered in 

 their stove in January, 1863. It will unquestionably be one of 

 the most desirable for cultivation. 



Descr. Root an elongated, perennial, subcylindrical tuber. 

 Leaves radical, when of full size 14-16 inches long, 5 inches 

 wide in the broadest part, cordato-sagittate, with a very deep 

 sinus at the base, forming two large, oblong, obtuse, deflexed 

 lobes, acuminate at the apex, very dark-green above, with the 

 stout costae and its primary branches or costules as well as the 

 margin white, beneath deep-purple. Petioles about equal in 

 length to the leaf, terete, inserted at a distance from the bottom 

 of the sinus, clothed in the lower half with large sheathing, 

 pale-purplish scales. Scape as long as the leaf, terete, white, 

 purplish below, sheathed in the lower half with similar scales to 

 those of the petiole. Spatha 4^ inches long, white, constricted 

 near the base, the base itself, or tubular portion, subglobose, 

 the rest of the spatha or lamina oblong, acute, very concave, 

 faintly striated. Spadix shorter than the spatha, the base of it 



MAY 1st, 1863. 



