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are of a dark rich velvety hue, with a few slight markings. 

 Native of Java. 



A. striatus. — A distinct species; grows five inches high, and 

 has leaves three inches long, dark green, with a broad band 

 of white down the centre. A free-growing plant, and one 

 which may be cultivated without a glass in a warm house. 



A. Turneri. — This is one of the most beautiful of the genus, 

 and possesses the advantage of being a strong and vigorous 

 grower ; the leaves are large, of a rich bronze colour, freely 

 marked with golden reticulations.. 



A. VeitcJdi. — A rare and fine species, named after its 

 importer. It grows four inches high, and has leaves three 

 inches long and two inches broad ; ground colour beautiful 

 light velvety green, interspersed from base to point with well- 

 defined lines, and bars of the same colour, but lighter. A 

 free-growing plant, and one which grows nearly as large as A. 

 Louii. 



A. xanthophyUiis. — A splendid species, and very distinct 

 from any other variety in cultivation. It attains a height of 

 five inches, and has leaves two and a half inches long, and an 

 inch and a half broad ; ground dark velvety green, with broad 

 orange and green stripes down the centre, and covered with a 

 beautiful golden network. A free-growing species. 



A. zehrinus. — An elegant dwarf-growing species with ovate 

 lanceolate leaves, of a deep olive green, striped with copper- 

 coloured lines. Native of India. 



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An interesting class of plants, with a compact habit of growth. 

 Many of them have dark velvety-like foliage, marked with gold 

 and silver hues down the centre of the leaves, and some of the 

 kinds have silver and gold markings spread over the entire 

 surface of the foliage, like the genus AncBctocldlus, The plants 



