96 OENAMENTAL FOLIAGE PLANTS. 



footstalks. These measure from one to tliree feet in length, 

 and are a dull metallic green, with white veins, the 

 young leaves are tinged with rose colour. It is a grand 

 plant for exhibition, or for the decoration of halls, or for 

 a window plant. Native of South America. 



A. signatum- — A very curious plant, well deserving 

 cultivation. The leaves are so distinctly divided, as almost 

 to appear trilobed ; the front lobe is about a foot in 

 length, and four inches in width, whilst the two side 

 lobes are only four inches in length, and about six inches 

 from the mid-rib to the extremity. They are borne upon 

 footstalks about twelve inches long, and are of a bright 

 dark green in colour. It is well adapted for covering a 

 pillar, and will no doubt be very useful for the sub- 

 tropical garden. Native of Venezuela. 



A. subsignaium. — This plant is well deserving general 

 cultivation. The leaves are thick and fleshy, borne upon 

 petioles about a foot in length ; the blade is from twelve 

 to eighteen inches in length, and about the same breadth 

 in the widest part, hastate in shape, with obtuse points, 

 dark shining green above, paler below. Native of Costa 

 Rica. 



A. tetragonurfi. — In this plant we have a beautiful sub- 

 ject for the sub-tropical garden during the summer 

 months. The leaves are erect, the petiole short, quad- 

 rangular, with a thick node at its juncture with the 

 blade, which commences with a narrow wing, until it 

 ultimately reaches a foot in width at its broadest part ; 

 the margins are undulate, deep shining green on the 

 upper side, somewhat paler below. Native of Tropical 

 America. 



