36 AROIDER (Brown). 
Ill. RICHARDIA, Kunth. 
Spathe with a convolute, narrowly funnel-shaped tube, broadest at 
the mouth ; limb oblique, open, suberect or recurving, terminated b 
a subulate point, persistent. Spadix moncecious, free, sessile or 
ual flowers ; the basal part female; the upper part m male ; 
appendix none ; staminodes sometimes mixed with the ovaries, but 
like strings. Fruit a berry, 1-3-celled ; cells 1—2-seeded. 
subglobose or ovoid ; testa rather thin; albumen copious ; embry? 
a 
. 
Herbs with the habit of Arum; rootstock a thick fleshy rhizome; leaves all 
radical, with brn rg and hastate “A pig apa bake or lanceolate blades, 
contemporar wers; peduncle ong as nger than the leaves; 
yw the 
spathe large, showy, wee, yellow or mth ries ng see changing to gree 
the fruit devel 
DisTRis. eis 7 or 8, of which one or two are Tropical African. 
Leaves narrow lanceolate, acute at the base... .. (1) Rehmanni. : 
Leaves hastate, sagittate or cordate at the base : 
Leaf wit 
s lon 
broad; petiole ‘mht without petaties | 3 comhe. 
blotched at the bas 
eaf without HE ; spathe yellow .., « (2) angustiloba. 
£ with a e spots ; spathe white it albomaculata. 
Leaf with the broadly ovate or deltoid park above 
the basal oe usually much less than twic 
broa 
Petiole with soft bristles below; re 
gree wit {abt ro ig at the base 
hite (4) melanoleuca. 
Leaf wi i (5) hastata. 
Petiole saastth, near toor bristles ; 3 spathe 
entirely white .. ae (6) africana. . 
Ls Ry rere ng EB. Br. ex Harrow in Gard, Chron. 1888, !¥- 
570, as R. Lehma t by error) ; petiole smooth, without bristles ; — 
blade of the leat 71-15 | in. long, 1-2 in. broad, lanceolate, acuminate, © 
subulate at the apex, cuneate-acute at the base. an uniform 
short, linear, seca ce white cork | 
spathe 8-42 in. long; lim oblique, more or less recurved, light | 
rosy-purple, darker but not blotched at the base within, or white 
greenish-white to the base within, with rosy-tinted margins ; spadi* _ 
not half the fength of the spathe, stipitate, = Acta. ovaries with — 
a very short, stout style ; anthers yellow. Watson in Gard. Chro™ 
1892, xii. 124; 1893, xiv. 770, and 1894 xvi. Soh y, Krelage 
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