—— BB ge OR, 
CALADIUM GRANDIFOLIUM. [LARGE-LEAVED 
CaLaApium, or Inp1AN KaALeE. 
Class and Order. 
Monaecia PotyAnpria. 
( Nat. Ord.—ArorpEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Spatha monophylla, cucullata, basi convoluta. Spadix 
ad apicem staminifer, mucrone quandoque nudo, medio 
glandulosus, basi germinibus tectus. Anthere peltate, 
sub pelta ad ambitum multiloculares. Glandule (stamina 
sterilia) obtuse. Stigma umbilicatum. Bacca mono- 
sperma, Br. ; 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Catapium grandifolium; caulescens radicans, foliis opacis 
cordato-sagittatis acutis petiolis teretibus, spadice ob- 
tuso spatham superne cucullatam medio subconstric- 
tam basi attenuatam equante. eh. Pnag. Eek ZEVS. 
Catapium grandifolium. Willd. Sp. Pl. v.4. p.490. Spreng. 
Syst. Veget.v. 3. p. 770. 
ARUM Seewokun. Jacq. Hort. Schenbr. v. 2. t. 189. 
p. 32. 
When I published the Cataprum fragrantissimum at t. 
3314 of this Magazine, I expressed myself as of opinion 
that the Catapium grandifolium of Sims (Bot. Mag. t. 2643,) 
should be considered a variety of the original plant, of the 
same name, of Jacg. Hort. Scheenbr. t. 189. I had not then 
seen a recent flowering specimen of the true grandifolium. 
Now that I have done so, I cannot but come to the con- 
clusion, that Dr. Sims’s plant is quite another species, with 
leaves glossy on the upper surface, and having a broad, 
semicircular sinus at the base, with differently-shaped eer 
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