20 BULLETIN 1247, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Florida: but for home use they probably can be grown successfully 
a little farther north. They will add a pleasing variety to the home 
table. A description 
of the plant of Ma- 
langa coloré follows: 
Height 2 to 3 feet; leaf 
blades narrowly sagittate, 
acuminate, petioles glau- 
cous green shaded below 
with purple, with wings 
of petiolar sinus deep 
mauve inside and out, 
margined irregularly with 
a yellowish white line. 
Corms small, elongated, 
with yellowish flesh that 
is fairly mealy and of 
rich flavor when cooked; 
lateral tubers too small 
for table use. 
An unnamed related 
variety (S.-P. I. No. 
46030) received from 
San Juan, Porto Rico, 
differs from Malanga 
eoloré only in having 
the wings of the petiole 
margined with pink, 
with an irregular 
greenish white (in- 
stead of yellowish 
white) stripe next to 
the pink. 
A corm imported 
from the West Indies 
and bought under the 
name “ Malanga ama- 
rilla ” (yellow ma- 
langa or yautia) on 
the market in a sub- 
urb of Tampa, Fla., is 
shown in Figure 15. 
This is representative 
in general appear- 
ance of these yellow 
yautias, of which the 
corms are eaten. 
I'iG. 14.—Tuber of the yautia called “ Pica-uncucha”’ > + 
(natural size), received from Peru. It is very acrid A ut eddo., S. yx ie 
; ) 1 ~< . ets > > aC “j ; - is < "oO + Dd vo > —~ 
iI tt € raw state, but the auc I idity 1s des troye d an ‘A 0. 47561, This vau- 
cooking, and the quality is very good. The variety : + 
produces tubers of good size in Florida and promises tia, received from 
to be one of the best yielding of the yautias. 
(pio9200rs.) Trinidad, has yellow- 
fleshed corms some- 
what similar to those of the preceding varieties. The buds are pink. 
The plant is 24 to 34 feet high. The leaf blade is broadly sagittate 
with acute apex: the sinus is much narrowed by the broad basal 
lobes, and the basal veins are naked only one-eighth inch. There is 
prominent marginal vein one-eighth to one-fourth inch from the 
