This plant appears to have been known in our gardens for 
nearly half a century ; yet no figure, as far as I know, has yet 
been published of it. Michaux found it to extend from New 
England to Virginia in North America, and Elliott tells us 
it abounds in Carolina and Georgia. 
It is singular that no modern author should have arranged 
this plant with the Caladia, with which it entirely accords, and 
to one species of which (C. sagitiifoUum) it has a very close affi- 
nity, differing principally in the form and colour of the spatha, 
ovate at the extremity, and white in the sagittifolium. Oc- 
casionally, indeed, the apex of the spadix is naked as in Arum, 
but then the anthers are quite different in structure, precisely 
according with those of Caladium. 
Our figure was taken from a plant which flowered in the 
Liverpool Botanic Garden in May 1825, and which was sent 
from North America by Mr Bradbury. It is a hardy spe- 
cies. 
Fig. 1. Spadix covered with the stamens and pistils. Fig. 2. Stamens. 
Fig. 3. Portion shewing a single anther. Fig. 4, Pistil. — All more, or 
less magnified. 
