What a superb and graceful plant is the Aloca-sia Macrorhiza variegata ! If not one of the best, it is certainly entitled to claim a position as being one of the most striking and effective ornamental-leaved plants which our stoves contain, and well deserving a place in every collection of fine foliage plants. No one can fail to admire a good specimen of this handsome variety, with its large shining green leaves, which are blotched and mottled with white, affording a rich contrast with other plants. This variety is a splendid subject on an exhibition table, and can soon be grown to a suitable size for that purpose, if due attention be paid to its requirements. It should be potted in a compost of peat and loam in equal parts, with some well decayed manure and a sprinkling of sand, giving them a place in the warmest part of the stove, where they can have plenty of light, but shaded from bright sun, to be copiously supplied with water at the roots, and the leaves frequently syringed, as red spider is a little partial to them, two of the most essential points in the successful cultivation of this class of plants being heat and moisture. On completing their growth they should have a season of rest. Propagated by offsets, or division of the root.

This variety is supposed to be a native of the Island of Ceylon, and belongs to the genus of Arads, which are closely related to the Colocasia.

Waterville, Oneida Co., N. Y.