A very distinct and striking addition to the Araceous family, introduced from South America. It has oblong elliptic leaves, which are rounded at the base, shortly acuminate, and almost wholly covered with greenish white, mottled with blotches of pale green, and having a narrow margin, and a few streaky markings of a deeper shade. The greater portion of the upper surface of the leaf-blade, whose two sides are nearly equal in breadth, being of this pallid hue, with the few but distinct dark markings, the plant is very effective and well entitled to be regarded as the Queen of the Dieftenbachias. This beautiful plant has frequently been shown in Mr. W. B.'s winning collections of new plants at an exhibition in London recently.

Dieffenbachia regina.