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the leaves. The leaf-blades stand almost vertical, and are of an ovate form, 
peltately attached to erect green motley stalks. The colour is a bright green, 
marked towards the edge in the spaces between the principal lateral veins with 
ALOCASIA MARSHALLII. 
broad wedge-shaped blotches of blackish purple. It was imported from India by 
W. Marshall, Esq., of Enfield, after whom it is named, and has passed into the 
hands of Mr. Bull, of Chelsea. 
