Tan. 5263. 
CALADIUM sicotor; var. VERSCHAFFELTII. 
Two-coloured Caladium; Verschaffelt’s var. 
Nat. Ord. AnoripE#.—Moneacia MonanprRia. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5199.) 
CaLapium Jicolor ; foliis peltatis ovato-sagitatis, lobis profundis paululum diva- 
ricatis bicoloribus, spatha erecta basi subglobosa medio coarctata apice ovato- 
acuminata. 
Var. Verschaffeltii ; foliis lete viridibus intense sanguineo-maculatis, maculis 
viridi-ocellatis. 
CaLapium Verschaffeltii. Ch. Lem. in Fl. des Serres, ser. 2. v. 3. p. 103. 
This is another of the many striking new varieties of Caladium 
bicolor, which has been recommended for the further ornament- 
ing of our stoves, and which is certainly not among the least 
beautiful of the kind. Upon the deep green ground of the blade 
of the leaf, are numerous irregular blotches of a rich blood- or 
almost carmine colour, the largest of which are ocellated, that 
is, have little eye-like spots of green, as in the var. Vewmanni, 
figured at our Tab. 5199, but there the deep-rose-coloured 
blotches are ocellated with white, and are moreover surrounded 
oy a white limbus. ‘The several variously coloured Caladiums, 
now known to us, have a very striking effect, whether grouped 
in masses, or mixed off with other plants, especially Ferns, the 
fulness of whose forms contrast well with the large aroid 
foliage of those now under consideration. The present variety 
was received from M. Chantin, of Paris. 
Fig. Flowering spadix, removed from the spatha,—zatural size. 
AUGUST lIsT, 1861. 
