Tas. 5176. 
RICHARDIA wastTatTa. 
Halbert-leaved Richardia. 
Nat. Ord. Arorpr“#.—Monea@cra Monanpria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5140.) 
Ricnarpta /astata; foliis subflaccidis hastato-ovatis amplis immaculatis, venis 
opacis, spatha viridi-lutea apice erecta intus basi atro-purpurea, petiolis 
glandulosis. 
At our Tab. 5140 we published one of two kinds of Azchar- 
dia, received by Messrs. Veitch from the Cape, allied to, and yet 
very distinct from, the well-known Richardia, or Calla, Aithio- 
pica. Under the first of these we showed the differences be- 
tween it and R. dthiopica. Our present plant, from Natal, has 
been received by others, as well as by Mr. Veitch, as a “red-" 
or a “ yellow-flowered Calla,” but in reality the flower, or rather 
the spatha, is a greenish-yellow, with no tinge whatever approach- 
ing to red. It is indeed too closely allied to our 2. albo-macu- 
lata above quoted. The spathas are rather dirty yellow-green 
instead of white, broader in the tube, and also in the limb; the 
petioles are here glandular in their lower half; the ma/e portion of 
the spadix is longer than the female, and the leaves are destitute 
of the peculiar white pellucid spots so characteristic of 2. albo- 
maculata. But I cannot say how far these characters are con- 
stant ; if they are not, it would be better to unite the two under 
the name here given, and constitute the var. a/4o-maculata of the 
other. 
The present kind has proved hardy in the Messrs. Veitch’s 
Nursery, at Exeter. 
Fig. 1. Column or spadix of flowers. 2. Stamen. 3. Pistil. 4, Trans- 
verse section of an ovary with two, and 5, one with three cells :—all but fig. 1 
magnified. 
APRIL Ist, 1860. 
