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CALADIUM pepatum.. 
Pedate-leaved Caladium. 
MONECIA POLYANDRIA.—Nar. Onp. AROIDE#. 
Gen. Cuar.—Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. 0. Anthere peltate, multiloculares, in 
spicam ad apicem spadicis composite.—Fam. Cal. 0. Cor. 0. Ger- 
mina ad basin spadicis inserta. Stylus 0. Bacca unilocularis, polysper- 
ma. 
Caladium pedatum ; caulescens, foliis longe petiolatis cordatis profunde 
tripartitis, lacinia superiore maxima pinnatifida inferius auriculatis 
incisis, pedunculis petiolo brevioribus, spatha cucullata involuta. 
Stem climbing, cylindrical, succulent, green, about an inch in diameter, 
jointed, and throwing out thick fibrous roots from various parts of its 
length. i a ee ae 
sheathing at the basi 
Peduncle shorter than the petiole, cylindrical, green. Seatha & inched lang: ae 
broad, cucullate, involute, so as almost whally to conceal the spadix, ra : 
‘ther thick and st the mid 
the contraction, yellowish-white above it Spadiz nearly as long as the e 
sides of which are several longitudinal cells. 
Communicated by Mr SHEPHERD from the collectiie of 
49 HAREIsON of Aegsburgh, who had received it from Bra- | 
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