NEW ALOCASIA INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 17 
ALOCASIA SANDER! AN A. 
A remarkably handsome and truly grand Arad, introduced from the Eastern Archipelago, and 
forming one of the finest of the variegated-leaved stove plants yet introduced to Europe, it has 
erect petioles, which are brownish green, and striately mottled ; on the young leaves tnecolour is 
bright glossy green, and on the older leaves the surface has a metallic blue reflection, ihe lea - 
blade is arrow-shaped, the front portion with about three triangular lobes on each side, the basal 
portion with one or two smaller lobes ; the thick costa and the stout cross veins are w n e 
conspicuously bordered with ivory-white, the margins also being white Tins is certainly the most 
beautiful of all the Alocasias, and a most magnificent foliage plant, lj and l guineas. ^ 
