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red leaf stalks. Its home is not known, but it is certainly not a native 

 of Singapore. 



The smaller Homalomenas [Chamaecladons) are often very pret- 

 tily marked with silver blotches on the leaves, or the leaves may be 

 dark red. They are best grown in pans The prettiest varie 

 ones come from the limestone rocks of Borneo. Curmeria Wa lisii 

 of South America is easy to grow in the same way, and is popular 

 from its broad leaves mottled with light and dark green and red leaf 

 stalks. 



Schizmato glottis is a genus of aroids of the same style as Horn i- 

 lomena, and as easy to grow; some of the species have the leaves 

 spotted with light green or yellow or silver, or with a central silver 

 feather, or are otherwise prettily marked; all are Malayan and some 

 pretty species are abundant in our woods. 



Alocasias are always admired for their bold heart-shaped or oval 

 often metallic looking leaves. The common species here, A. denu- 

 data, "Keladi Ular," is very variable, and a number of varieties have 

 received names. It grows in hedge banks and woods everywhere, 

 the leaves are narrowly arrow-shaped [A. lougilobd) ovate [A. Cur- 

 tisii) or broadly arrow-shaped, the common form denudata, usually 

 dark green above, paler beneath, with the nerves of a lighter c< ir; 

 there are forms with silvery main nerves, and also with all the reti- 

 culation silvery (A. Thibautiana), or with the back of the leaf 

 deep purple. This latter form is not always easy to tell from A. 

 Lowii but in A. denudata, the petiole is always clouded, while in A. 

 Lowii, it is light green. 



A. Lowii is a limestone rock plant growing in Borneo, and in 

 Perak, Selangor, etc. It often attains a great size and superb 

 plants are often on view at our exhibitions. The Perak form, with 

 the basal lobes meeting and joining more than in the typical Borneo 

 form, is known as A. Lowii grandis. 



A. denudata and its variable varieties include some fine forms, 

 one of the A, longiloba in the Singapore Gardens is finely marked, 

 and the graceful recurved leaf is about 2' 6" long, equally striking 

 too is its prettily mottled leaf stalk. This form compares with A. 

 Lowii in appearance as does Antliurium warocqueanum, with An- 

 thurium crystallinum. • 



Alocasia Sanderiana and A. cuprea do not grow well in Singa- 

 pore and require a good deal of care, A. Villeneuvii and A. ovalifo- 

 Hum are bold green-leaved plants, acceptable in the Singapore 

 collection although poor in comparison with the deeply coloured and 

 finely marked species. 



Schizocasia Portei and Xanthosoma Lindenii, are both well known 

 in and about the Straits as Exhibition plants and occasionally some 

 remarkable fine specimens may be seen. 



P telodendrons, are New World plants, epiphytes, or, as the name 

 implies, lovers of trees, and when unrestricted attain lofty heigh 

 the species are attractive, with some the leaves are cut into d< > 

 segments, some are finely variegated, others are green-leaved with 



