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Long-rooted Caladium (Arum). Sweet. 



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mjmphmi" C. acaule, foliis pcltatis cordato-sagit- 

 folmm. tatis, spadice spatha cylindracea apice 



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lanceolata longiore. TVillcL 

 488. Ilort Kcw. 5. jy. 31]. 



Arum acaule medium. Br. 3 

 Water-Lilly-lcavcd Caladium. Alio^i, 



Indian Kale. Bnnvne. 



Wildj or Monkey Eddoe., 

 C. acaule, foliis sagittatis acuminatis, 

 folium, ftipadice spatha ovata cucnllata breviore, 



mUcL Sp, PI. 4. p. 489. HorL Kew. 5. 



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rityof Sloane and Browne, The leaf of the Arum Colocasia 

 is peUated ; that of the roasting- Eddoe is not. Mr. Miller consi- 

 dered the A. peregriniini as the species ^' most commonly culti- 

 vated in the West Indies, under the name of Eddcr.'' I am 

 confideut that the Arum pere^*-rinum, and the A. macrorhizon 

 arc not distinct species^ but are both identical with the Arum 

 max. &c. of Hermannus. The definition therefore of Arum 

 macrorhizon, representing- the plant with a peltated leaf hi 

 opposition to Hermannus from whom the specific title is taken, 

 should be excluded; the two species in question should be con- 

 sidered as one, the title macrorhizon adopted, and tlie sj>ecies 

 thus arranged be carried to the genus Caladium, to which it 

 undoubtedly belongs. 



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* Browne is certainly in error ; making- his Arum, A^o. 7, the 

 same as Sloane's A. Nymphcic foliis, which is properly recog-- 

 nised by Willdenow as Caladium esculentum {Arum esculenlum), 

 and which I have no doubt is Browne's Arum, No, 6. 



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