Tas. 5199, 
CALADIUM sicotor, var. Newnannis. 
Two-coloured Caladium ; Neumann’s var. 
Nat. Ord. AnoripE®.—Mone@cra MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Spatha ventricosa, basi convoluta. Spadix apice omnino stamini- 
fer, quandoque mucronatus, mucrone nudo, medio glandulosus, basi tectus ger- 
‘minibus. Anthere sessiles, in spiram dense disposite, peltate, sub pelta ad am- 
bitum multiloculares vel pluries sulcate, sulcis pollen concatenatum emittentibus. 
Glandule seu anthere steriles multiplici serie adnate spadici, inaquales, ob- 
long, angulose, obtuse,.ad ambitum sulcate. Germina numerosa, sessilia, 
subrotunda, depressa; sfyli nulli; stigmata umbilicata, viscoso humore referta. 
Vent. 
CaLapiuM Jicolor ; foliis peltatis ovato-sagittatis, lobis profundis paululum di- 
varicatis bicoloribus, spatha erecta basi subglobosa medio coarctata apice 
ovato-acuminata. 
a. foliis disco rubicundo. 
Catapium bicolor. Vent. Pl. Nouv. ¢. 30. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 4. p. 488. Ait. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 5. p. 311. Kerr, in Bot. Mag. t. 2543. Hook. Er. . 
_ Fl. t. 26. Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 54. 
Arvo bicolor. Ait. Hort. Kew. v. 3. p. 316. Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 820. 
B. foliis maculatis maculis roseo-sanguineis ocellatis ocellis limboque albis. 
CaLapium Neumannii. Ch. Lem. in Fl. des Serres, 1860, p. 104. 
In proportion as the cultivation of plants peculiar for coloured 
foliage increases in favour with the public, so, it would appear, do 
their varieties; and among the more beautiful of them will rank 
numerous Aroidee. Ventenat first described what is assuredly 
the normal state of this species of Caladium (that indeed on 
which the genus itself is founded), Jicolor, peculiar in the rich 
red colour of the disc of the leaf, and running up, as it were, along 
the principal veins, and disappearing at some little distance from 
the margin. Here, in a plant no ways differing specifically, we 
have the red collected in spots of unequal sizes and forms over 
the whole disc of the leaf, but never touching the margin; and 
these spots are of a deep rose-red, freckled and margined with 
auGusT lst, 1860. 
