Arum. MONOECIA MONANDRIA, 495 
Teling, Chama-Kura, 
There are two varieties of this species cultivated in the 
vicinity of Calcutta, viz. Goori-Kuchoo just mentioned, and 
Asoo or early Kuchoo: small offsets from the larger tubers 
are, like potatoes, planted about the beginning of the rains 
in May or June, ina well laboured, friable, rich soil, not sub- 
ject to be inundated. The roots of Asoo Kuchoo are taken 
up about the close of the year; those of Goori-Kuchoo, in 
February and March. Besides these two, there are three wild 
varieties of this species, found in most parts of India, viz. 
_ Ist. Kalla or dark-coloured Kuchoo, found on the edges of 
ditches, and other wet places. The leaves and the petioles” 
are more or less tinged with purple, and the roots never swell 
in the manner the cultivated varieties do, but send out nu- 
‘merous runners, The leaves, and their foot-stalks, are the 
parts chiefly eaten by the natives of Bengal. 
Caladium aquatile. Rumph. Amb. v. t. 110. f. 1. seems to 
be this variety. 
2d. Char-Kuchoo, grows on dry ground, chiefly by road 
_ sides, on dung hills, and among rubbish, it differs from the 
other varieties in having the disk of the leaves marked with 
dark purple or bluish black clouds, 
3d. Bun-Kuchoo, In situation and form every way like 
the last, but of an uniform green colour. The last two are 
rarely eaten by the natives of Bengal, where better vegetables 
are plentiful and easily procured. : 
Caladium vicorum. Rumph, Amb, v. p. 318. 
2. A. nympheifolium, R. 
Stemless. Leaves peltate, ovate repand, semi-bifid at the 
base. Scape shorter than the petioles, Spathe much long- 
er than the spadix, sub-cylindric, erect ; club slender, acute, 
scarcely half the length of the a naa part of the recep- 
tacle. Anthers many-celled. wish 
Caladium nympheifolium, Willd.iv. 488. 
~ Beng, Sar-Kuchoo, Perse ee | 
