168 CL. AROIDEZ (BROWN). [ Richardia. 
in Journ. Roy. Hort. Soc. 1890, xii., Proc. lviii.; W. Wats. in Gard. 
Chron. 1892, xii. 124. 
Mozamb. Dist. Tropical Transvaal? cultivated specimens ! 
This species is stated to have been raised from seeds received from South Africa, 
but I have reason to believe that its habitat is somewhere in the northern part of the 
Transvaal. 
2. R. melanoleuca, Hook. f., var. tropicalis, V. #. Br. Leaves 
glabrous ; petiole 3-24 ft. long, smooth, without the soft bristles at the 
base that are characteristic of the type; blade 8—14 in. long, 44—14 in. 
broad across the basal lobes, hastate or somewhat sagittate in the 
smaller leaves, acute, green, marked with transparent white linear 
spots ; basal lobes spreading, obtuse. Peduncle longer than the leaves, 
smooth. Spathe 3-5} in. long, lemon-yellow, with a crimson blotch at 
the base inside; tube funnel-shaped; limb oblique, tapering into a 
subulate point. Spadix shortly stipitate, not half as long as the spathe, 
cylindric, obtuse. Ovary subglobose, green ; style 4—} lin. long; stigma 
small. Staminodes none, or confined to a very few of the uppermost: 
female flowers. : 
Mozamb. Dist. British Central Africa: Nyasaland ; Namasi, Cameron! 
Mashonaland ; at Six-mile Spruit near Salisbury, Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, 149! 
In the young state the leaves of this variety are elongate-ovate, acute, cordate- 
sagittate at the base, and green without any spots, the spots developing with the age 
of the plant. 
This differs from the typical South African form: by its larger size, and by the , 
absence of thie soft bristles at the base of the petioles so characteristic of the Natal 
plant. The stigma is not always subsessile in typical R. melanolenca, Hook. f., a8 [ 
had previously described, some specimens having a distinct style about 4 lin. long. 
3. R. hastata, Hook. f. in Bot. Mag.t.5176. Leaves with petioles 
1-1} ft. long, having soft bristle-like hairs on the Jower part, which 
wither and often nearly disappear in the dried state; blade green, 
without spots, 83-13} in. long, 4-7} in. broad across the basal lobes, 
triangular-sagittate or hastate, acute, the part above the basal lobes 
usually less than twice as long as broad ; basal lobes very broadly ovate 
or rounded, very obtuse, overlapping one another at the sinus, OF 
spreading. Peduncle about a foot long, smooth. Spathe 3-4 in. long, 
light yellow, tinted with green outside, marked with a large purple- 
brown blotch at the base inside; tube funnel-shaped ; limb obliquely 
truncate at the mouth, abruptly subulate-pointed. Spadix about half 
as long as the spathe, cylindric, obtuse. Ovary angular-globose, light 
green; style very short, conical; stigma small. Staminodes none. 
Anthers yellow.—Schott, Prod. Aroid. 325; Engl. in DC. Monogr. 
Phan. ii. 328 ; Garden, Dec. 11, 1880 ; N. E. Br. in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vil. 38. 
hk. Lutwychei, N. E. Br. in Gard. Chron. 1893, xiii. 568; Rev. Hort. 
1896, 60 with pl. 2. “ Pride of Congo,’ Rev. Hort. 1893, 27. Calla 
oculata, Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1859, 788. Zantedeschia hastata, Eng). 
Jahrb. iv.64; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fi. Afr. v.477 partly. Z. Lut- 
