Colocccsta.] CL. ARoiDEiE (brown). 1C5 



Spathe 6-17 in. long ; tube ovoid-oblong, green ; limb narrowly lanceo- 

 late, 2-^ times as long as the tube, convolute to an acute point at the 

 apex apricot-yellow. Spadix shorter than the spathe ; female part 

 f-2 in. long, cylindric, tapering towards the top ; male part, including 

 the portion covered with barren organs (staminodes) at its hose, J-i in. 

 long, cylindric, constricted at the base ; appendix variable irrespective 

 of the rest of the spadix, ^-2^ in. long, more slender than the male 

 part, terete, tapering to an acute point, bu ft'- coloured. Ovaries mixed 

 with neutep organs (abortive ovaries), obovoid ; stigma sessile, discoid. 

 Anthers buff'-coloured. — Synop. Aroid. 40, Gen, Aroid. t. 37, and 

 Prod. Aroid. 138 ; Kunth, Enum. iii. 37 ; Thomson in Speke, Nile, 

 Append. G51 ; Engl, in DC. Monogr. Phan. ii. 491, in Ptianzenw. 

 Ost-Afr. B. 131, C. 132, and in Mitth. Deutsch. Schutzgeb. ii. (IHHli), 

 150; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 523, and in Bot. Mag. t. 7304; 

 Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append, ii. 52, 105; Henriques in 

 Bolet. Soc. Brot. xiii. 134 ; Dew^vre in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. 

 Belg. xxxiii. 107; Rendle in Cat. Afr. PI. Welw. ii. 88; Durand & 

 Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 478. Colocasia sp., Hook. Niger Fl. 527. 

 Caladium esculentum, Schumach. k Thonn. Beskr. Guin. Pi. 408. 



Upper Guinea. Cape Verd Islands ; St. Antao, Loice ! Cape Verde, Cardoio 

 (ex Henriques). Sierra Leone, cultivated, Don! (Jimnevi, Thonn ivg. Cameroona : 

 Barombi, Preuss^ 300 ! 



irile Iiand. Eritrea : near the Otiil water place, on the northern slope of the 

 Highlands of Dembelas, Sclnoeinfurth, 121, and near Filtil, Schiceivfurth, 122 (ex 

 Schweinfurtli). Abyssinia, Kordofan, Sennar, and Uo^anda' (ex Durand ^ Schinz), 

 Rritjsh East Afiica : Uganda and Unyoro (ex Speke ^' Grant) ; Kabai Hills, near 

 Mombasa, Taylor ! 



Xiower Guinea. Angola : Golungo Alto : in shady woods by the sides of 

 sti-eams in the Sierra de Alto Queta, rarely flowering, Weltcitxch, 220 ! in woods 

 between Sange and Menha Lula, Welwitsch, 220/2. Cazengo ; in lofty shady places 

 on the Sierra de Muchaula, Welwitsch, 220/3! Pungo Andongo ; in woods by 

 streams in Mata de Pungo, on the Presidium, Wtdwitsch, 221. 



XkKozamb. Dlst. British Central Africa : Nyasaland ; Blantyre, Descamps (ex 

 Dewevre), 



Introduced. A native of Tropical Asia and the Malay Archipelago. 



9. CALADIUM, Yent. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. ii. 97(1. 



Spathe convolute below ; constricted at the base of the boat-shaped 

 limb; tube persistent and eventually rupturing in fruit ; limb 

 deciduous. Spadix shorter than the spathe, free, monoecious, without 

 an appendix; female part contiguous with the barren basal part of the 

 male inflorescence. Perianth none. Female flowers numerous ; ovaries 

 all slightly connected just below the apex, 2- (rarely ."-4-) celled ; 

 stigma sessile; ovules numerous, axile, anatropous. Male flowers: 

 Anthers 3-5, connate into a sessile angular truncate bodV, the cells not 

 reaching to the top, opening by terminal pores. Berries enclosed in 

 the tube of the spathe, obovoid or pear-shaped, 2-;5-relled, many- 

 seeded. Seeds ovoid, small; testa thick; albumen copious; embrjo- 



