Tas. 7498, 
ALOCASIA revursa, 
Native of the Philippine Islands. 
Nat. Ord. ArorpE&.—Tribe Conocasizz. 
Genus Atocasia, Schott.; (Benth. & Hook.f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 975.) 
Axocasta (Eualocasia) reversa; humilis, foliis 5-8 poll. longis deflexis ovatis 
oblongisve acutis cuspidatisve basi cordatis sinu angusto brevi v. ad 
petiolum extenso, nervis utrinque 4 cum basilari reversa, supra griseo- 
viridibus secus costam et nervos late saturate viridibus, margine anguste 
aureo, subtus pallide viridibus, petiolo 6-pollicari tereti pallide viridi, 
vaginis pallidis membranaceis apicibus nudis v. subfoliaceis, scapo 4—5- 
eet pallido, spatha 23-pollicari alba, tubo ovoideo, limbo tubo 
uplo longiore oblongo acuto demum revoluto purpureo-marginato, 
spadice 2-pollicari, inflor. masc. $ poll. longa alba, fem. } poll. laxiflora, 
staminodiis paucis rubris, appendice fusiformi ochraceo sinuato-ruguloso, 
Ao ag pene stylis elongatis, stigmatibus dilatatis integris y. 2-3- 
obulatis. 
Atocasia reversa, V, EH. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. ii. p. 38. 
A, reversa is closely allied to A. sinuata, N. E. Br. (in 
Gard. Chron, (1888) ii. 678), also a native of the Philip- 
pine Islands, which differs in its very much larger size, 
and in the sinuate margins of the obtuse differently coloured 
leaves with more numerous nerves: in both species the 
tendency of the sheaths to bear foliaceous tips is very 
manifest, though more so in A. sinuata. Mr. Brown re- 
marks that the darker shade of colour along the midrib 
and nerves of the leaf of A. veversa is the reverse of what 
is usual in the genus. In the specimens which he described 
the leaves are cleft to the insertion of the petiole, in those 
here figured the basal lobes are connate almost throughout 
their length. 
A. reversa was imported from the Philippine Islands by 
Messrs. Sander of St. Albans, from whom the specimen 
here figured was obtained. It flowered in October, 1895, 
in a stove of the Royal Gardens, Kew. ae 
_ Deser.—Stem very short or 0. Leaves five to eight 
inches long by three to four broad, deflexed from the 
petiole, oblong or ovate-oblong, acute or cuspidate, base 
cordate, with a narrow sinus which sometimes extends 
Octoses Ist, 1896, 
