Tap 8522. 
ALOCASIA Micuo.uitrziana. 
Philippines. 
AROIDEAE. Tribe CoLOcAsIAE. 
Axooasta, Schott; Benth. et Hook, f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 975. 
Alocasia Micholitziana, Sander in Gard. Chron. 1912, vol. li. suppl. p. Xv. 
fig. 9; affinis A. Svnderianae, Bull, sed foliis minoribus haud vel minus 
peltatis, minus lobatis, venis lateralibus vix curvatis haud argenteo- 
marginatis et spadice spatha fere aequilongo differt. 
Herba perennis caulescens, omnino glabra. Caulis usque ad 40-50 em. altus, 
erectus, 2°5-3°5 cm. crassus. Foliorum petioli_ 20-36 cm. longi, basi vel 
ad medium vaginati, sordide virides, irregulariter fusco-zonati; laminae 
sagittatie vel leviter peltato-sagittatae, marginibus sinuato-lobatis, supra 
pulchre atro-virides, venis primariis pallidioribus et costa alba ornatae, 
subtus pallide virentes; lobus anticus 10-25 cm. longus, 6-14 cm. latus, 
elongato-deltoideus, acutus; lobi basales 10-15 cm. longi, 3°5-6 cm. lati, 
deltoidei, obtusi, liberi vel basi breviter connexi, sinu triangulari sejuncti. 
Pedunculi 10-16 em. longi, virides, maculis sordide fusco-purpureis irregu- 
lariter zonati. Spatha erecta; tubus 2°5-3 cm. longus, subglobosus vel 
ellipsoideus, viridis; lamina 9-10 cm. longa, 2°5-3:2 cm. lata, cymbiformis, 
acuta, extra pullide virens, intus pallide flavo-virens vel albido-virens. 
Spadix cum spatha fere aequilongus, appendice quam parte florifera multo 
longiore, pallide flavescente. Ovartwm globosum; stylus perbrevis; stigma 
subcapitatum.—N. E. Brown. 
The handsome Aroid of which a figure is here given is 
a native of the Philippines, where it was first met with 
some fifteen years ago by Mr. Loher in the province of 
Benquet in the island of Luzon. It was met with again 
by Mr. Micholitz, also in Luzon, when collecting there on 
behalf of Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, by whom it 
was introduced to cultivation about three years ago. Very 
nearly allied to the familiar Alocasia Sanderiana, Bull, this 
new species differs therefrom in having smaller leaves, 
less deeply lobed at the margins, with a deeper and very 
different shade of green and without silvery borders to 
the almost straight (not distinctly curved) primary lateral 
veins. In our plant, too, the leaves are very rarely peltate, 
and when they are peltate they are so to a much less degree 
than is the case in A. Sanderiana. The spadix, too, is here 
nearly as long as the spathe, and its appendix is longer 
than the floriferous portion, whereas in A. Sanderiana the 
November, 1913. 
