Janvary 22, 1887.] 
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kept by the family at The Grange, Lamberhurst. 
Н. G. Rchb. f. 
ALOCASIA EMINENS, N. E. Brown, n. sp. 
A fine bold- habited and ierit species, allied 
to А. zebrina, А. singaporensis, and A. 'Thibautiana, 
а 
crx 
n 
comparison with the specimens in the Kew Herbarium 
I have come to the conclusion that it belongs to the 
same species as a specimen collected in Borneo by 
a Bull’s collection. The following description 
eminens is drawn чр exclusively from living 
sinis furnished me by Mr. Bull :— 
Glab all parts. hee А or scale- 
leaves, 6— re inches long, pale reddish, soon wither- 
ing. Petiole 32—41 feet long, terete, 1 inch thick 
at the nee tapering upwards, olive-green with a 
coppery hue, passing into very pale green towards 
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egular, narrow, blackish-green bars. . Blade o 
the leaf peltate, oh sagittate, 20—-22 inches long, 
me apex, emet: marked with rather indistinct, 
Че of 
nen curved; the postical branches of the midrib 
div at an acute angle, and 
one or sometimes two slender veins ira? their lower 
ейде tow = the tips of the hind lobes 
the ion of the irse 
2—18 inches long, 31—4 line 
light green. Tube of the spathe 16—18 lin 
$ inch thick, ellipsoidal, light green; limb 0 
spathe reflexed, 31—4 inches long, 1—1j inch 
Fic. 24,—vPRIGHT CORDON 
Beccari (No. 382), and which Dr. Masters, when de- 
scribing A. Thibautiana, thought 
might be referred to 
cari 382 to A. longi- 
loba (in Beccari, Malesia, vol. i, P. pmi » which also is 
quite a different plant; and a 
who saw the 
three in a living state would “anhesitatingly pro- 
nounce iod to be wien imeem xcept that 
th t came fr ast Indies, Mr. Bull 
is a good companion plant to A. grandis described 
by me in these pages a short time since, also from 
PEAR TREES AGAINST A WOODEN SHED AT MESSRS, CHEAL'S NURSERY. 
including the hind lobes, 9— 10} inches broad across 
the insertion of the petiole, and 71—8 inches across 
and bes veins; front lobe ovate, mend or 
obtuse, with a short cupidate ave 1—3 in 
1 the ма ped 
riangular sinus between eer I "үтү 
primary veins four to five on ей 
distant, the lower pair Ahi straight, the rest 
(sez Р. 104.) 
broad, oblong acute, pale greenish-white, а, 
somewhat translucent. Spadix 3} nches: 
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ly , 8 
about "віх, basal; neuter part meg s. creamy- 
white; male part inch long amy-white ; 
appendix conoidal acute, oA ябы long, slightly 
labyrinthie-rogalos ochreous. N. E. Brown, Her- 
barium, Kew. 
RASS SEEDS FOR ROYAL PARKS.—Mr, E. J. 
Jarma - nurseryman, Chard, Somerset, has received 
an order for the supply of grass see ds to several of 
the Royal parks, 
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