Anim. MONOECiA monandria. 495 



Teling. Chaina-Kura. 



There are two varieties of this species cultivated in tlie 

 vicinity of Calcutta, viz. Goori-Kuchoo just mentioned, an(J 

 Asoo or early Kuchoo : small offsets from the larger tubers 

 are, like potatoes, planted about the beginning of the rains 

 in May or June, in a 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. 



\si. 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. Rumpli. Amh. v. t. llO.y*. 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. 



3(/. 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. Amh. v. p. 318. 



2. A. nymj)hceiJ'olnim. 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; cluh slender, acute, 

 scarcely half the length of the antheriferous part of the recep- 

 tacle. Anthers many-celled. 



Caladium nymphaifolinm. Willd. iv. 488. 



Bcriff. Sur-Kuclioo. 



