Tab. 7364. 

 COLOCASIA ANTiQuoRuar. 



Native of India. 



Nat. Ord. Aboide-e. — Tribe Colocasie^b. 

 Grenns Cou>casia, Schott ; (Benth. & Hooh.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 974; 



Colocasia antiquorum ; caulebasi tuberoso stolones elongatos tnberiferos emit- 

 tente, foliia erectis amplis longe petiolatia peltatis ovato-cordatis sinu 

 rotundato v. triangulari, lobo antico latitudine paullo longiore acuto, 

 posticis antico duplo brevioribus obtusis, nervis lateralibus utrinque 4-7, 

 pedunculis pluribns petiolo brevoribus, spathse tubo oblongo viridi lamina 

 lineari-larjceolata flavida 3-5-plo breviore, inflorescentia foeminea sterili 

 aequilonga, mascula fertili duplo longiore, appendice brevi. 



C. antiquorum, Schott Meletem. vol. i. p. 18 ; Syn. Avoid, p. 40 ; Prodr. p. 48. 

 Kunth Enum. PI. vol. iii. p. 372. Engler Monogr. Arac. p. 491. Benth. 

 Fl. Austral, vol. vii. p. 155. Sook.f. Fl. Brit. 2nd. vol. vi. p. 523. 



C. esculenta and C. acris, Schott Meletem. p. 18. Kunth I. c. 



C. himalensis, Boyle III. Bot. Himal. 407 (nomenj. Gard. Ghron. 1893, vol. ii. 

 p. 372. 



C. nymphseifolia, Kunth I. c. 



C. Fontanesii, Schott in (Estr. Bot. Wochenbl. iv. (1854), p. 409. 



C. pruinipes, Koch & Bouche Ind. Sem. Hort. Berol. (1854), App. p. 4. 



C. euchlora, C. Koch & Bind. 1. c. App. 



Caladium esculeutum, Vent. Hort. Cels. subt. 30. Willd. Sp. PI. vol. iv. p. 489. 



C. colocasioides, Brongn. in Nouv. Ann. Mits. Paris, vol. iii. p. 156. Kunth I. c. 



C. acre, Br. Prodr. Fl. Nov. Eoll. p. 336. 



C. nymphaaifolium, Tent. I. c. Griff. Notul. PI. Asiat. vol. iii. p. 144; Icon. 

 t. 161, B, f. 2. 



C. violaceum, Hort. ex Engl, in DC. Monog. Phan. vol. ii. p. 492. 



C. aquatile and 0. vicorum, Humph. Amboin. vol. v. t. 110, f. 1, and p. 318. 



Alocasia Dussii, Hort. Dammann. 



A. illustris, Bull. Gat. (1873), p. 4. Floral Mag. (1874), p. 107 (folium). 



Arum Colocasia, Linn. Sp. PI. p. 965. Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. iii. p. 494. 

 Wight. Ic. Plant. Ind. Or. t. 786, £. 1. Gatesby Hist. Carolina, Vol. ii. 

 t. 45. 



A esculentum, Linn. I. c. Shane Hist. Jamaica, vol. i. t. 106. Forst- 

 Prodr. Fl. Ind. Austr. n. 328 & PL Excul. p. 27. 



A. nympbaeifolium, Roxb. I. c. 495. Wight. I. c. f. 2. 



A. peltatum, Lam. Encycl. vol. iii. p. 13. 



A. colocasioides, Desfont. Cat. Hort. Paris, Ed. 3. vol. vii. p. 7 & 385. 



A. aegypticum, Rumph. Amboin. vol. v. t. 109, 110, f. i. 



Weli-ila & Sar Kucboo, Rheede Hort. Malab. vol. xi. t. 22. 



It is singular that, in so far as I can ascertain, there is 

 no good figure of this, one of the most widely cultivated 



July 1st, 181>t. 



