Tas. 7397. 
RICHARDIA Pentianpi. 
Native of Basutoland. 
Nat. Ord. AroipEa.—Tribe PHILODENDREA. 
Genus Ricuarpra, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 982.) 
Ricuarpia Pentlandii; elata, foliis immaculatis ovato-cordatis caudato- 
acuminatis sinu aperto, lobis rotundatis, costa crassa, spatha crocea late 
infundibulari tertia parte laxe convoluta intus leviter rugulosa, ore 
expansa, apice abrupte recurvo subulato, marginibus recurvis, ima basi 
intus plaga atropurpurea picta. — 
R. Pentlandii, R. Whyte mss. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. ii. p. 123, and 
1894, vol. i. p. 590. 
Of the eight recorded species of Richardia (all of which 
are African) five have now been figured in this magazine, 
namely, the original R. xthiopica, Kunth. (Calla xthiopica, 
tab. 832), CO. albo-maculata, Hook. (tab. 5140), C. hastata, 
Hook. (tab. 5176), C. melanoleuca (tab. 5765), and that 
here represented. These fall naturally into two groups, 
according as the leaves are cordate or hastate at the 
base. ‘lo the first of these belong R. xthiopica and Pent- 
landit ; to the latter R. albo-maculata, hastata, and melano- 
leuca. The differences in their spathes are well marked, 
that of xthiopica is white, narrow, with a long point; of 
Pentlandii as given above ; of albo-maculata, like xthiopica ; 
of hastata, greenish yellow, broadly open, with a long 
‘point, and of melanoleuca white with a purple base, broad, 
quite open, or convolute, at the base only. ‘he spadixes 
of none afford good diagnostic characters. R. Pentlandii 
is much the largest leaved species, is the only one with 
a deeply gamboge yellow spathe within, which is much 
the largest and broadest of any. The other recorded 
Species are all imperfectly known, namely, R. angustiloba, 
: Schott, of Angola, R. Rehmaniana, Engl., and &. Elliotti- 
ana, Knigt (ex Wats. i Gard. Chron., July 80, 1892, p. 
123), which may be a var. of albo-maculata. 
Feprvary Ist, 1895, 
