Plate 10. 

 EICHAEDIA ANGUSTILOBA. 



Transvaal, Basutoland. 



Aroideae. Tribe Philodendreae. 

 Eichardia, Kunth. ; Benth. et Eook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 982. 



Richardia angustiloba, Schott in Joum. Bot. 1865, 35 ; Fl. Cap. vii. 37. 



The specimen figured was first mentioned in the Gardeners 

 Chronicle, 1892, as Calla Pentlandii, and two years later in the 

 same publication was again brought to notice as Eichardia 

 Pentlandii, under which name it was described and figured in 

 the Botanical Magazine. Mr. N. E. Brown, who monographed 

 the genus for the Flora Capensis, considers it the same as 

 Richardia angustiloba which was described as early as 1865. 

 It was introduced into cultivation by Mr. E. Whyte, Pentland 

 House, Lee, who raised flowers in 1892, and exhibited it at a 

 meeting of the Eoyal Horticultural Society and was awarded 

 a first-class certificate. 



Specimens of the tubers were taken to Kew by Mr. E. E. 

 Galpin in May, 1892. 



Our present illustration was made from plants flowered by 

 Mr. H. H. Wickens, Officer in Charge of the Union Buildings 

 Garden, Pretoria. 



Description : — Leaves dark green, unspotted ; petiole 30-60 

 cm. long, terete, glabrous; lamina 22-30 cm. long, 11 cm. 

 broad at the widest part, ovate, acute, and produced into a 

 filiform appendage at the apex 1*2 cm. long, sagittate at the 

 base, glabrous, with the midrib prominent beneath and chan- 

 nelled above. Peduncle over 1 metre high, longer than the 

 leaves, terete, glabrous. Spathe gamboge-yellow, dark purple 

 at the base inside, 10-14 cm. long, 4-4*5 cm. broad across the 

 middle, 7-10 cm. across the mouth, loosely convolute for two- 

 thirds of its length, then expanding into a broad, nearly 

 horizontal limb produced into a subulate tip 1*5 cm. long 

 and with recurved margins. Spadix yellow, 4*5 cm. long, 



