Tab. 5497. 



ALOCASIA Lown ; var. picta. 



Mr. Low's Jlocasia ; variegated var. 



Nat. Ord. Arc-ide^e. — Moncecia M on anuria. 



Gen. Char. Spatha tubus persistens ; lamina cucullata, cymbiformis. Spadix 

 appendiculatus, spatha paulo brevior, inferne ovariis (ovaridiisque interdum) 

 medio floribus neutris, infra apicem synandriis dense obsitus. Ovaria subastyla. 

 Stigma depresso-hemisphaericum. Synandria breviter stipitata, loculis sub vertice 

 aperientibus. Fructus spatha tubo irregulariter disrupto et revoluto invohieratus. 

 Bacca rotund ato-obovata (rubra). Semen depresso-hemisphaericum. — Rhizoma 

 plerumque elatum, arborescens, approximato-tenuiterque cicatrizatum. Folia juve- 

 nilis plantce peltata, vetustioris sape ad petiolatum usque bipartita. Costa et 

 venae utrinque elevato-prominenles. Pedunculi breviusculi plures ex una axilla. 

 Spadices suaveolentes. — Indicte. Schott. 



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

 petalis subtus purpureis, supra atro-viridibus nitidis, sinu profundo, costis 

 costulis margineque incrassato albis, scapo basi vaginato-bracteatis superne 

 teretibus, spatha alba tubo inrlato-globosa, lamina oblongo-cymbiformi, 

 spadice spatha breviore, ovariis subglobosis, stylo subnullo, stigmate sessili 

 4- 5-lobato, lobis acutis patentibus. 



Alocasia Lowii, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5376. 



Caladium Veitchii. Feitctis Cut. {Henderson). 



Var. jS. picta; foliis supra atro-viridibus supra costis costulisque albido late 

 albidoque marginatis venulisque albis, petiolo virido-striato, annulatisque 

 bracteis spathaque rnbro tinctis. (Tab. nostr. 5497.) 



Superior as this Aroideous plant is, in point of beauty, to 

 that we have figured at Tab. 5376, it cannot but be considered 

 a more highly-coloured and variegated variety of it. Its genus 

 is unquestionably the same ; but whether we have done right in 

 referring our Alocasia Lowii and A. metallica (Tab. nostr. 51 90)^ 

 both to the genus Alocasia, we must leave to the judgment of 

 those who are more familiar with this difficult family of plants 

 than we are ourselves. Certain it is that we have erred in con- 

 sidering our metallica to be the same as the plant of that name- 

 in Schott's ' Synopsis Aroidearum,' for the author has lately, in 



march 1st, 1865. 



