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AEALIA VEITOHII. 
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most elegant character, having a slender-growing erect stem, which is furnished 
with handsome digitate leaves composed of about eleven narrow linear elongated 
leaflets, which are distinctly wavy at the edge, of a dark glossy green colour on 
ARALIA VEITOHII. 
the upper surface, and dark red beneath. These, standing out on their long 
slender, but rigid petioles, have a remarkably elegant character. 
As an exhibition foliage plant, the Messrs. Veitch observe, that there is no 
doubt it will always stand in the highest rank; while as a dinner-table decorative 
