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CALADIUM PETIOLATUM. LONG-STALKED 
CALADIUM. 
KKK KKK EE EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 
Monaecia MonanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Arorpez. ) ; 
Generic Character. 
Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta. Spadix 
ad apicem staminifer, mucrone quandoque nudo; medio 
glandulosus ; basi ovariis tectus. Anthere peltate, sub 
Ita ad ambitum multiloculares. Glandule (stamina ste- 
— obtuse. Stigma umbilicatum. Bacca monosperma? 
r. 
Specific Name and Character. — 
Caxapium petiolatum ; folio ternatim composito longissime 
petiolato, foliolis pinnatifidis laciniis ovatis ‘acutis inte- 
gris v. divisis, scapo petioloque infra muricatis, spatha 
oblonga acuminata spadicem longe superante, germi- 
nibus ovatis subattenuatis reflexis tuberculatis. 
Tubers of this singular plant were dug up in the Island 
of Fernando Po, by Mr. Boutses, Jun., and sent to his 
father, Josep Bourrsee, Esq., Springtield, Knowle, Bir- 
mingham, in whose stove they blossomed in 1832, and who 
kindly transmitted me a drawing and a tuber, which latter 
has flowered readily in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. 
The tubers, being in a dormant state, were believed to be 
those of a kind of Potato, said to grow in that island ; but 
the mistake was soon after discovered, when, on being 
given as food to some of the live stock on board ship, these 
supposed Potatoes occasioned their death. With us the 
flowering season of this plant is June. 
ae Descr. 
