The whole tribe of Arums, or, as American boys would say, Indian turnips, affords us some of the most beautiful kinds of ornamental leaf plants known. This one is said to be especially beautiful, and was sent out first by Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea, London, who kindly furnishes us with the following account of it:

" We have in this the King of the genus - a very handsomely marked plant of free and vigorous habit. The leaves are closely placed on the stem, the leaf-blades elliptic-lanceolate, unequal-sided, of a very deep green color, passing to paler green near the edge of the narrow side, the whole surface to within about half an inch of the margin thickly covered with oblique-elongate angular white blotches, which take the same direction as the venation, and are here and there slightly veined and suffused with green." It was introduced from South America. This was one of the twelve new plants with which Mr. W. B. gained the First Prize at the Royal Horticultural Society's Exhibitions in 1880, 1881 and 1882.

Dieffenbachia rex.