Tap. 7436. 
RICHARDIA Renmannt. 
~ Native of Natal. 
Nat. Ord. ARomwEx.—Tribe PHILODENDREA. 
Genus Ricwarpia, Kunth; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 982.) 
Ricuarpia Rehmanni; foliis anguste elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis in 
petiolum angustatis plagis elongatis pallidis notatis, nervis omnibus 
tenuissimis, spathe tubo cylindraceo extus pallide vivescente intus 
toto albo, limbo lanceolato albo plus minusve roseo tincto acuminato 
supra medium revoluto, oris margine recurvo, spadice stipitato. 
R. Rehmanni, V.E. Br. in Hort. Bot. Cantab. Krelagein Gard. Chron. 1893, 
vol, ii. p. 564, fig. 94 (sphalm. Lehmanni), et in Gartenfl. 1894, p. 12, f. 7. 
W. Wats. in Gard. Chron. 1894, vol. ii. p. 364. 
Zantedeschia Rehmanni, Hngl. Bot. Jahrb. vol. iv. (1883), p. 63. 
R. Rehmanniana, nov. in textu, ante sub tab. 7397 (sphalm.). 
De Waals Richardia, Masters in Gard Chron, 1893, 1. c. 
Under Tab. 7397 of this work I have alluded to the 
plant here figured under the name of Richardia Rehman- 
niana, for which I failed at the time to find any authority. 
Its now having flowered at Kew gives me the opportunity 
of clearing up its history, which is somewhat involved. 
In 1888 Mr. Lynch sent a specimen of it from the Botanical 
Gardens of Cambridge to the Kew Herbarium, where it 
was examined and recognized by Mr. Brown to be the 
Zantedeschia Rehmanni of Engler, and a true Richardia, 
This information was communicated to Mr. Lynch by Mr. 
Brown, who may hence be regarded as the originator of 
the name the plant now bears. 
R. Rehmanni was discovered on grassy, stony hills 
near Standerton, Natal, by Mr. Rehmann, and, as stated 
above, was described as a Zantedeschia. Its introducer 
into England was Mr. R. W. Adlam, who sent tubers to 
Mr. Lynch in July, 1888, as a rose-fld. Richardia. These 
tubers, on first flowering at the Cambridge Botanical 
Gardens, had white spathes, without any tinge of rose, 
and on informing Mr. Adlam of this, that gentleman 
answered from Natal:—‘*The MRichardia with pink 
flowers has behaved just the same here, i.e, flowering 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1895. 
