and a spatha almost exactly resembling both in form and 
colour that of our Ca.aprum /ragrantissimum being red, 
and remarkably inflated below *, and not pale green and 
attenuated at the base. 
The plant from which our present drawing was made in 
April, 1834, at the Glasgow Botanic Garden, came from 
Demerara. It makes a truly handsome appearance, with 
its climbing and rooting stems, its large foliage, and pale 
spathas with a dark red line down the middle on the back. 
Descr. Stem scandent, terete, dingy green, spotted with 
purple, rooting, when cut across exhibiting a copious fluid 
which dries and forms a kind of varnish. Leaves two feet 
or more long, cordato-sagittate, opaque above, petiole 
rounded, spotted with purple. Flowers bursting two or 
three together from a fissure at the base of the petiole, 
scentless, accompanied by a marcescent, large bractea. 
Spatha at first pale green, afterwards pale buff, green at 
the base on the outside, pinkish within, marked at the back 
with a purple hue. It is cucullate at the extremity, slightly 
contracted in the middle, tapering at the base downwards 
into ashort, somewhat trigonal peduncle. Spadix obliquely 
inserted (or decurrent) as long as the spatha, slightly club- 
shaped, below clothed with numerous green pistils, above 
with dense, white stamens. 
* The species may be thus distinguished : 
C. Simsiz; caulescens radicans, foliis lucidis cordato-sagittatis acutis petio- 
lis teretibus, spadice obtuso spatham cucullato-cylindraceam medio con- 
strictam basi ventricosam subequante. . 
CaLapium grandifolium. Sims in Bot. Mag. t. 2643. (non Jacq.) 
Fig. 1. Portion of the Spatha, to which the Spadix is affixed, scarcely 
magnified. 2. Stamen. 3, Pistil: magnified. 
