A lovely, dwarf-growing stove perennial, belonging to the front rank of plants, with ornamental foliage. The leaf stalks are slender, erect, of a dull, reddish purple, and support an ovate blade, somewhat unequal sided, about 6 inches long, and 4½ inches broad, most charmingly colored. The margin and the oblong marking are of a very dark, bottle-green color, while the whole intervening space is semi-transparent, cream-colored, or of a greenish, straw color, and traversed by the veins, which form narrow, divergent, dark-green lines, between which the pallid surface appears as if minutely striate; when closely examined, however, it is found to be barred transversely with minute, green lines, producing, under a magnifying glass, the appearance of being cancellate, like the Ouviranda. This pale center of the leaf, on each side the midrib, is ornamented by oblong, often stipi-late blotches, of a deep, full green, and from one to two inches long; the larger and smaller marking frequently alternating. The under surface is a wine red, deeper opposite the darker marking of the upper surface, It may be generally described as a miniature of such plants as M. Veitchii and M. Lindenii, but is even more beautiful than those fine kinds.- William Bull.