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white ribs and veins (Fig. 127) ; and A. Sedeni — a hybrid between A. Lowi and A. 

 cuprea — is also good. 



Alocasias are readily increased by division of the underground stems, or rhizomes? 

 in March. If these are started in small pots, and kept growing in brisk moist heat, 



Fig. 127. Alocasia Sandeeiana nobilis. 



they soon need more pot-room, and the strongest of the species may be grown from 

 quite small plants into imposing specimens in one season. For the first potting and 

 subsequent shifts use a mixture of very fibrous loam and peat in equal parts, with 

 sphagnum moss, lumps of charcoal, and sharp sand freely incorporated. For the larger 



