90 OENAIIENTAL FOLIAGE PLANTS. 



growing between two and three feet high, and producing 

 leaves some eight or ten inches long, and nearly as much 

 wide. The ground colour is a beautiful shade of glaucous 

 green, set off' with about twelve oblong blotches of black. 

 It is a perfect gem, fit for the dinner table, the exhibi- 

 tion table, or for the decoration of the plant stoves. This, 

 very free-growing plant is a native of the East Indies. 



A. Lowii. — This very beautifiil species is worthy a place- 

 in every collection of ornamental foliage plants. The 

 leaves are cordate-sagittate, with a deep notch at the 

 base, which thus forms two oblong ear-like lobes ; thO' 

 under side of the leaf is deep purple, the upper rich 

 dark green, with all the primary veins ivory white. It 

 is a highly ornamental plant in any situation in which 

 it may be placed. Native of Borneo. 



A. macrorhiza variegata. — A large-growing plant, which 

 with age becomes caulescent. The leaves are large, some- 

 what cordate, with slightly waved maz'gins, bright green, 

 blotched and marbled with white, in some instances nearly 

 quite white ; the footstalks of the leaves are also broadly 

 streaked with the same pure white. It is one of the most 

 striking and effective ornamental-leaved plants yet intro- 

 duced to our stoves. It is said to have originated in a 

 garden in the Island of Ceylon. 



A. Sedeni, — The leaves of this plant are nearly the 

 same shape as those of A. Lowii, and retain the distinct 

 ivory white primary veins of that species, which is one 

 of its parents, whilst the ground colour more nearly re- 

 sembles that of its other parent, A. metallica. It is a 

 distinct and handsome plant, well deserving a place in 

 every collection. A plant of garden origin 



A. Veitehii. — This plant has been figured under the 

 name of A. Lowii picta, irom which species, however, it 



