Tab. 5500. 



AGLAONEMA marant.<efolium; var.foliis maculatis. 



Maranta-leaved Aglaonema • var. with variegated leaves. 



Nat. Ord. Aeoide^. — Mono:cia Monandbia. 



Gen. Char. Spatha brevis, tubo indistincto, ex toto hians, tandem a basi de- 

 cidua? Spadix stipitatus. Omnia pauca, ovulo basi fixo, subsessili, stigmate 

 magno infundifuliformi-discoideo. Antherm vertice quadriporosae, locellis basi 

 sejunctis, apice conniventibus, poris tandem confluentibus aperientes. Bacca 

 ellipsoidea. Semen ellipsoideum, germinatione admotiva. — Frutices erecti. Cau- 

 dex dense annulato-cicatrizatus. Petiolus brevis, vaginatus. Lamina foliorum 

 oblonga, pinnativenia, costa supra canaliculata, venis in margine longe procurren- 

 tibus, superioribus apicibus arcuatim conniventibus. Spadix odoratus. Fructus 

 e baccis glomeratis. Schott. 



Aglaonema marantqfolium ; caudice tereti annulato demum elongato apice 

 folioso, foliis spithamseis oblongo-acuminatis basi obtusis insequilateralibus 

 costatis parallelim subobscure venosis petiolatis, petiolis folio sublongioribus 

 supra medium vaginantibus, scapis petiolo paullo longioribus teretibus, spatha 

 3-4-unciali erecto pallide flavo-virescente cyrabiformi apice subito subu- 

 lato-acuminato basi solummodo convoluto spadice longitudine fere spatlia?, 

 brevi-stipitato, floribus inferioribus foemineis, reliquis usque ad apicem 

 spadicis masculis. 



Aglaonema marantsefolium. Blume, Rumphia, v. 1. p. 13. t. 66. Schott, Prodr. 

 Syst. Jroidearum, p. 303. Kth. Enum. PL v. 3. p. 55. 



Calla oblongifolia. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 516. Wight, Ic. PL Ind. Or. v. 3. 

 t. 806. 



Appendix erecta. Rumph. Herb. Amb. v. 5. p. 487. t. 182./. 2. 



Var. maculatum; foiiis maculis pallidis variegatis. (Tab. noste. 5500.) 



Calla picta. Roxb. Fl. Ind. v. 3. p. 516. Wight, Ic. PL Ind. Or. v. 3. t. 804. 



Aglaonema commutatum. Schott, Synops. Aroid.p. 123; Prodr. p. 304. 



A native of the Malay Islands, and probably not uncommon 

 there, especially in the Moluccas, figured (but upon a reduced 

 size) by old Rumphius, and more recently and more accurately 

 by Dr. Wight, and by the second Rumphius (Blume). The whole- 

 coloured variety has been long cultivated in our gardens, but the 

 spotted-leaved variety has only recently been imported in Euro- 



MAECH 1st, 1865. 



