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NEW, RARE AND DESIRABLE STOVE PLANTS. 
AGLAONEMA VERSICOLOR. 
An attractive ornamental foliage stove plant, belonging to the Avoid family, introduced from the 
East Indies. It is of neat growth and bears on an erect stem beautifully mottled shortly stalked 
spreading leaves, the petioles sheathing with membraneous edges. The leaf blades obliquely oblong, 
rounded at the base, acute at the apex, irregularly blotched with patches of dark velvety green 
interspersed among patches of lighter green, and some of milky white. 15 ». 
