Tab. 5394. 

 ANCHOMANES Hookeri; var. pallida. 



Hookerian Jnchomanes ; pale-flowered var. 



Nat. Ord. AitoiDEiE. — Mon<ecia Monandria. 



Gen. Char. Spatha elongata, lineari-oblonga, modice cucullata, tota aperta, 

 tubo vix ullo. Spadlx spatha brevior, androgyna, floribus continuis. Ovaria 

 subquadrata, in stylum crassum conico-elongatum decurvum asperum producta, 

 stigmate sub-2-lobo 1-loculari. Ovulum basilare v. subbasilare, sessile, ortho- 

 tropum ? Antlierce late quadratse, vertiee planar, depressse, loculis 4 per paria oppo- 

 sitis, sub vertiee connectivi rimula dehiscentes. — Rhizoma crassum, tuberosum, 

 annulatum. Folium serotinum, petiolo elongato stricto tereti aculeato, lamina 

 ternata, divisuris patentibus pinnatis, pinnis 2-3-jugis ovatis v. obovato-cuneatis 

 acuminatis sepalibus membranaceis. Pedunculus aculeolatus. Spatha acuminata, 

 pallide v. profunde luride purpurea. Spadix crassus, parte macula elongata 

 alba, floribus fcemineis purpurea. 



Anchomanes Hookeri. Schott, Prodr. Aroid.p. 134. 



Caladium petiolatum. Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3728. 



Var. pallida ; planta quam typica major, pedunculo petioloque magis aculeato, 

 spatha spithamaea pallide purpurea, viridi suffusa. 



Of this very remarkable Aroideous plant the tubers were sent 

 from Fernando Po by the indefatigable Government Botanist and 

 Collector for the Royal Garden, Mr. G. Mann. At first they 

 were supposed to belong to an entirely new species, but a care- 

 ful comparison with the J. Hookeri, figured at Tab. 3718 as 

 Caladium petiolatum, also from Fernando Po, has induced us to 

 consider it as a very large pale-flowered and more aculeate 

 variety of that plant. Whether in flower or leaf, the plant is 

 a most remarkable one : the spathes open in May, reared on the 

 summit of a slender, prickly peduncle, two to three feet high, 

 and blotched with purple and green. In the following July the 

 single leaf appears, the petiole of which is longer, more prickly 

 ami slender than the peduncle, and bears horizontally on its 

 summit the three-parted lamina, each of which is pinnated, and 

 has two to three pairs of leaflets ; each of the lateral leaflets 



ALOIS! 1st, 1S63. 



