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 variegated 
ones come from the limestone rocks of Borneo. Curmeria Wallisii 
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. 
Schizmatoglottis is a genus of aroids of the same style as Homa - 
lomenv, 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, H 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 ( 7. longiloba ) ovate (A. Cur- 
tisii) or broadly arrow-shaped, the common form denudata, usually 
dark green above, paler beneath, with the nerves of a lighter colour; 
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 redurved 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 Anthurium waroequeanum, with An- 
thurium crystallinum . 
Alocasia Sanderiana and A. cuprea do not grow well in Singa- 
pore and require a good deal of care, A. Villeneuyii and A. ovali fo- 
lium are bold green-leaved plants, acceptable in th§ Singapore 
collection although poor in comparison with the deeply coloured and 
finely marked species. 
Sckizocasia Porte i and Xanthosoma Lindenii , are both well known 
in and about the Straits as Exhibition plants and occasionally some 
remarkable fine specimens may be seen. 
Philodendrons , are New World plants, epiphytes, or, as the name 
implies, lovers of trees, and when unrestricted attain lofty heights; all 
the species are attractive, with some the leaves are cut into deep 
segments, some are finely variegated, others are green-leaved with 
