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~CALADIUM aicotor. 
~ Two-coloured Caladium. 
MONOECIA POLYANDRIA.—Nat. Orv. AROIDEZ. 
Gen. Cuar—Mas. Cal. 0. Cor.0. Antherar peltate, multiloculares, in spi- 
cam ad apicem spadicis composite. Fam. Cal. 0. Cor.0. Germina 
ad basin spadicis inserta. Stylus 0. Bacca uni- (bi-) locularis, poly- 
sperma. Willd. 
_ Caladium bicolor; acaule, foliis peltatis cordato-sagittatis disco coloratis, 
spadice spatha cucullata medio contracta breviore— Wil. 
Caladium bicolor, Vent. Pi. Rar. Hort. Cels. t. 30.—Witup. Sp; Pl. v. iv. 
p- 488.—Art. Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. iv. p. 311. . 
Arum bicolor, Arr. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. v. iii. p. 316.—Bot. Mag. t. 820. 
Root most probably tuberous, as in the other individuals of this natural fa- 
mily. Leaves springing from the root, few in number, cordato-sagittate, 
acute or slightly acuminate, waved, but entire at the margin, distinctly 
nerved, the margin yellowish-green, the broad disk a beautiful rose-co- 
lour ; petioles from 4 to 6 inches long, cylindrical, sheathing at the base. 
Spadix rising upon a peduncle, which is somewhat shorter than the leaf- 
stalk, and surrounded by a large convolute slightly acuminated spatha, 
of a yellowish-white colour, marked with longitudinal lines, contracted 
near the middle, swoln, and green at the base, exceeding sometimes the 
spadix in length, which last is 3 or 4 inches long, club-shaped. Anthers 
occupying the upper half, yellowish-white, sessile, peltate, fleshy. ¢ neatly 
tetragonal, crowded. If one of these be removed, and carefully exa- 
mined with a lens, it will be found dotted at the top, and indeed through 
the whole substance, slightly depressed in the centre, the sides occupied 
oozing out. A little below the centre of the spadix are some oblong, angu- 
lar fleshy bodies, of the same colour and texture as the anther, but des- 
titute of cells, whilst beneath, or with a short naked space intervening be- 
tween them eg SS fa, sessile, crowd- 
pressure, y 
their top a little convex, or having, in the centre, a slightly elevated, 
yellow ring, which is the stigma. The cells of the germen are 2; the 
number of the ovules in each cell I have generally found to be 3. 
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