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CLVIII. AROIDE^. 
[^Alocasia. 
very common. Johor, Bukit Murdom (Kelsall); Pulaii Dayong 
(Feilding). Pahang; Kota Glanggi; Bukit Telega (Machado). 
Malacca (Maingay); Pulau Besar (Griffith); Ayer Bumban (Ridley). 
Bindings, Lumut. Perak. Lankawi islands (Curtis). Kedah, 
Gunong Geriang. Distrib. Lingga, Borneo. Native names : Keladi 
Rimau; Keladi Ular. 
The species was^based on a leaf collected by Gaudichaud in Singapore, 
and is doubtless this very common Singapore plant. A. longUoba Miq. FI. 
Ind. Bat. iii. 207, may be this, but Hallier suggests it is Lowii\ the 
description is quite insufficient to decide. A. denudata varies much in the 
form of the leaves, and seedlings have entire peltate leaves like those of 
Fig. 215. —Alocasia denudata. 
A. Beccarii] adult forms vary from rounded leaves with sub-parallel basal 
lobes, to narrow acuminate leaves with long, narrow, widely divaricate lobes. 
The Bukit Telega plant had the leaves deep purple beneath and the veins 
above very pale, and much resembled A. Lowit, but the petiole was clouded, 
and it was certainly a form of A. denudata, unless perhaps a hybrid with 
A. Lowii. 
(3) A. Lowii Hook. fit. Bot. Mag. t. 5376; Ridl. Mat. iii. 18. 
Caladium Lowii Lem. III. Hort. t. 360. 
Stem short, stout. Leaves i or 2; petioles 1*5 to 2 ft. tall, 
greyish green with fine black marks, not mottled, blade ovate cordate 
to hastate cuspidate, 1-5 ft. long, 7 to 12 in. wide, dark green, veins 
and margin white, back purple. Peduncle 8 to 14 in. long, pale 
green. Spathe 5 in. long, tube i in. long and as thick, limb 4 in. 
