Richardia. | CL. AROIDEZ (BROWN). 167 
11. RICHARDIA, Kunth; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 982. 
Spathe convolute in the lower half, funnel-shaped, persistent ; limb 
oblique, open, suberect or recurving, terminating in a subulate point. 
Spadix moneecious, free, sessile or stipitate, much shorter than the 
spathe ; male and female parts contiguous ; appendix none ; staminodes 
are sometimes mixed with the ovaries, but there are no other barren 
organs. Perianth none. Ovaries numerous, crowded, subglobose, 
angular from mutual pressure, 2—3-celled ; style short or almost none; 
stigma discoid. Ovules 2—4 in each cell, on axile placentas, anatropous. 
Anthers sessile, crowded, oblong, compressed, truncate at the apex, 
2-celled, cells opening by terminal pores. Berry broadly obovoid or 
subglobose, 1—3-celled; cells 1—2-seeded. Seed subglobose or ovoid, 
slightly angular ; testa rather thin; albumen copious; embryo axile. 
Herbs with a thick fleshy rhizome. Leaves contemporary with the 
flowers, all radical, with long petioles, and hastate, sagittate, cordate or 
lanceolate blades. Peduncles solitary, as long as or longer than the 
leaves. Spathe large, showy, white, yellow, or rosy, persisting and 
changing to green as the fruit develops. 
A.sinall genus confined to Tropical and South Africa. 
Leaves spotted. 
Leaves ovate-cordate or orbicular-cordate ; spathe 
without a purple-brown blotch at the base . 1. R. elliottiana. 
Leaves hastate ; spathe with a dark purple-brown 
blotch at the base . “ . 2. R. melanoleuca, 
Leaves without spots; spathes with a dark purple- 
brown blotch at the base (see also the young state 
of 2, R. melanoleuca). 
Leaf with the ovate-deltoid part above the basal- 
lobes nearly twice as long as broad; spathe 
light yellow. : seas = . 3. RB. hastata, 
Leaf with the elongated-deltoid or elongated-oblong 
part above the basal-lobes 2—5 times as long as 
broad; spathe deep golden-yellow . c . 4. R. angustiloba. 
1. R. elliottiana, W. Wats. in Garden and Forest, 1892, 330. 
Leaves glabrous ; petiole 2 ft. or more long, smooth, without bristles ; 
blade bright green, marked with numerous transparent white elongated 
Spots, 9-11 in. long, 6-10 in. broad, ovate or orbicular-ovate, obtuse, 
with a subulate point at the apex, cordate at the base ; basal lobes very 
broadly rounded; sinus about 2 in. deep. Peduncle longer than the 
leaves, smooth, green. Spathe 5-6 in. long, bright golden-yellow, 
without a purple blotch at the base inside ; tube funnel-shaped ; limb 
oblique, subhorizontally spreading, obtuse, with a subulate point. 
Spadix about half as long as the spathe, cylindric, obtuse. Ovaries 
Subglobose, angular from mutual pressure, pale greenish ; stigma sessile, 
discoid. Staminodes none. Anthers orange-yellow.. Berries large, 
about } in. diam., obovoid or subglobose, green.—Duren in Rev. Hort. 
Belge, 1897, 13, with pl.; Bot Mag. t. 7577, Calla elliottiana, Knight 
