38 AROIDE® (Brown). [ Richardia. 
Recion: Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000-2500 ft., Baur, 433! 
Griqualand East ; stony slopes around Kokstad, 4500 ft., Z'yson, 1590 ! 
4. R. melanoleuca (Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5765) ; er with 
att bristles on the lower part; blade of the leaf 5 -8 in. long, 
21-6 in. broad across the basal lobes, deltoid or ovate- deltoid, acute, 
with a subulate point, hastate or sagittate at the base, 
sinus, the part above the basal lobes usually mueh less a twice as 
long as broad, green, with numerous semitransparent white spots ; 
pag 2-3 in. long, iaticels subtruncate at the mouth, light yellow 
or greenish-yellow, with a dark purple-brown blotch ‘at the base 
inside ; spadix shortly mes cylindric ; ovaries with scarcely any 
style, pale greenish ; stigma subsessile ; staminodia none ; anthers 
yellow. Gard. Chron 1869, 1182; Engl. in DC. Monog. Phan. 
1i. 328. Zantedeschia ‘melanoleuca, Engl. Jahrb, iv. 64. 
Eastern Reoion: Natal; Inanda, Wood, 431! and without precise locality, 
Buchanan! Gerrard, 1525! Sanderson, 2091! 
. R. hastata (Hook. f. in Bot. Mag. t. 5176) ; petiole with soft 
bristle- like hairs on the lower part, which wither and often almost 
sg i in the dried state; blade of the leaf 7-10 in. long, 5-72 
broad across the basal ‘lobes, hastate, acute, tipped with a 
Gubslats point, the length of the part above the basal lobes usually 
less than twice its greatest breadth, green, unspotted ; spathe 
3-4 in. oe limb oblique, nearly in. a line with the tube, light 
in DC. Monog. Phan. ii. 328 ; Garden, Dec. 1889. Calla oculata, 
Lindl. in Gard. Chron. 1859, 788. Zantedeschia hastata, Engl. 
Jahrb. iv. 64, 
— Rea@ion: Basutoland, Cooper, mre Transvaal ; Lomati Valley, 
near Barberton, in swamps, 4000 ft., Galpin, 1360 
Pesci REGION : Natal, Sanderson! Wood, 2 
R. africana (Kunth in Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, iv. 433, 
cog: ‘petiole smooth, without bristles ; ‘blade of the leaf 6-18 in. 
long, 4-10 in, broad, cordate or hastate, obtuse or acute, tipped with 
a subulate point, the length of the part above the basal lobes much 
less than twice its breadth, green, unspotted ; spathe 4-10 in. long; 
limb oblique, recurving from the tube, milk- -white, without any 
blotch at the base within : ; Spadix sessile, about half as long as the 
spathe, or less, cylindric ; ovaries narrowed into a distinct style 3 +i 
line long, pale gre aoa oe ; Staminodia and anthers ae yellow. 
Kunth, Enum. Pl. i 8 ; Schott, Synop. Arvid. 131; Gen, Aroid. 
t. 62; and Prod. pe) 324; Engl. in DC. Monog. Phan. i ii. 327. 
Calla wthiopica, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. i. 968; Bot. Mag. t. 832; Jac of 
Fraym. 29, t. 32, fig. 3 (fruit). Colocasia «wthiopica, Spreng 
