Tap: 8402, 
CALADIUM puBEscEns. 
Peru. 
AROIDEAE. Tribe CoLOCASIRAR. 
Catapium, Vent.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Plant. vol. iii. p. 976. 
Caladium pubeseens, N. LH. Br.; affinis C. puberulo, Engl., sed foliis cordatis 
(nec sagittatis) lobis posticis quam anticus fere decies brevioribus, venis 
primariis numerosioribus et spadice multo longiore differt. 
Herba. Tuber globosum vel depresso-globosum, profuse bulbilliferum. Yoliorum 
petiolus 10-32 em. longus, basi vaginatus, dense pubescens, pailide virens ; 
lamina deflexa, 20-30 em. longa, 9°5-23 em. lata, cordato-ovata vel elongato- 
cordato-ovata, subabrupte acuminata vel acuta, utrinque pubescens, laete 
viridis, lobis basalibus 1°5-3 cm. longis late rotundatis, venis primariis e 
costa utringue 10-18 patentibus levissime curvatis, basalibus in sinu 
breviter denudatis, supra impressis subtus prominentibus. Pedunculus 
20-21 cm. Jongus, pubescens, pallide virens. Spatha 13 cm. longa, extra 
subvelutino-pubescens, intus giabra; tubus 2°5-3 cm. diametro, sub- 
globosus, basi obliquus, dorso canaliculatus, pallide virens; lamina 
suberecto-reflexa, 10°5 cm. longa, 6 em. lata, ovata, caudato-acuminata, 
intus alba, extra albo-virens. Spadiz 9-10 cm. longus, parte feminea 
1 cm. longa, 1 cm. crassa, luteo-alba, parte mascula 7-9 em. longa, 1°2- 
1:5 ecm. crassa, leviter compressa, obtusa, lactea, basi staminodiis pauci- 
seriatis instructa. Ovariwm oblongum, truncatum, pilis paucis minutis 
conspersum, 4-loculare, loculis pluriovulatis—N. E. Brown, 
The very distinct Caladium which forms the subject of 
our illustration was sent to Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. 
Albans, from Peru, where it was obtained by Mr. Forget. 
As it reached this country along with a consignment of 
Cattleya Fex the probability is that it is a native of the 
Moyobambo region. The plant which supplied the material 
for our figure was presented to Kew by Messrs. Sander, and 
flowered for the first time in September, 1909. Another 
individual flowered simultaneously in the Royal Botanic 
Garden at Glasnevin. Among Caladiums the species is 
remarkable for its pubescence, a character rarely met with 
in the Aroid family at all, and in this respect it is very 
unlike any other Caladium in cultivation ; indeed there is 
but one other species in the genus which has been described 
as pubescent. This is C. puberulum, Engl., which is 
undoubtedly nearly allied to our plant, but which differs 
in the characters noted by Mr. Brown. There are, how- 
ever, two other Aroids, which have hitherto been regarded 
as species of Xanthosoma; X. pilosum, C. Koch, and X. Hot- 
Novemser, 1911, 
