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Sr,. C. F^^/etei (L 







Dieffenbaclii continued. 



'(large). L green, mottled. BrazH, 1864. 





FIG. 664. DIKFFEXBACHIA REOLNJ 



D. Carderl (Carder's). L rich dark green, strikingly blotched and 

 variegated ; oblong-orate, somewhat deflexed. Columbia, 1880. 

 See pie4TO. Fig. 661, for which we are indebted to Mr. Wm. BnlL 



D. cheUoni (Chelsea).* L dark satiny-green, the midrib marked 

 with a grey band, which runs oat into a feathered edge, Mi 

 extends about one-third acro each half of the blade, the surface 

 of which is also freely spotted and blotched with bright yellow- 

 green for about two-thirds of it* breadth. Columbia, 1877. A 

 very handsome species. 



D. cootata (ribbed), 

 white midrib, more or 

 white blotches ; orate, bit 

 acuminate at the apes, 



D. delecta (select). L, surface satiny, with whit 

 elliptic-lanceolate. Sin. to lOin. long, spreading, 

 green. Columbia, 1880 



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D. tTi.rifp.ta (remarkable), 

 blotches of pale yellowish-green 



shortly acuminate 



more in breadth, 

 petioles pale green. 



D. latdmaciUata (broad-spotted).* L dark glaucous-green, inter- 

 spened with white bars, spotted awl blotcW irrerularly with 

 yellowish-green; wwhai acute sagittate ; petioles glaucous. 

 Stem erect, supporting a fine crown of leaves. Brazil, 1871. 



with a whitish 

 described as of i 



South 

 dent bes 



(O. C. n. 



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