DIEFFENBACHIA REX. 
If 7). rcgina may be considered as the Queen, « have in this the King of the genus — a very 
handsomely marked plant of free and vigorous habit. The leaves are closely placed on the stem, 
the leaf-blades elliptic-lanceolate, unequal-sided, of a very deep green colour, passing to paler green 
near the edge of the narrow side, the whole surface to within about half an inch of the margin 
thickly covered with oblique-elongate angular white blotches, which take the same direction as the 
venation, and are here and there slightly veined and suffused with green. It was introduced from 
South America. This was one of the twelve New Plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First 
Prize at several of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Exhibitions. 1 and 1| guinea. 
NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE ' STOVE PLANTS. 
DIEFFENBACHIA 
