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“CALADIUM Srcviwus. 
Dumb Cane. 
MONCECIA POLYANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. AROIDEE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Masc. Cal. 0. Cor. 0. Anthere: ee.” multiloculares in 
-spicam ad apicem spadicis composite. “ie 
Fam. Cal. 0. Cor.0. Germina ad basin spadicis inserta. Stylus 0. Bacca : 
uni- Pah logulatie, polysperma ool alld. soc ‘ 
Caladium Shceslbatnes eauledcens ee ee foliis oblongo-ovatis cuspi- 
datis, spadice spatha oblonga breviore. 
CC, Seguinum, Witip. Sp. Pl. v. iv. p..490. —Arrow, on Ken. ed: 2. ¥. &. 
D912... .; 
Arum Seguinum, Linn. Sp. PL p- 1371, 
Stem from 3 to 5, and even 6 feet in height, and sometimes as thick as a man’s 
wrist ; it is generally a little procumbent at the base, then erect, naked, 
jointed, green, often discoloured with the dried sheathing bases of the 
former years’ leaves, smooth, succulent, filled with a green, highly acrid 
juice. Leaves all springing from the summit of the stem, 8 or 10 inches 
in length, ovato-oblong, cuspidate, undulated, having a thick midrib, 
and lateral parallel veins, their substance marked with pellucid white 
spots, often perforated ; they are horizontal or deflexed, deep green, sub< 
coriaceous, petiolated, petioles about half as long as the leaves, channel- 
led, sheathing, sheaths terminated in a short green ligule, as in the grasses. 
From the sheathing bases of these petioles, arise the spathas, which are 
5 or 6 inches in length, oblong, pedunculated, pale green, convoluted, 
rather shorter than the spadix, which is cylindrical, but attached for the 
greater part of its length to the spatha. | | 
Stamens covering the upper and free part of the spadix all weet: viellate, 
hexangular, their sides bearing several oblong, pendent, 2-celied Anthers, 
filled with a white pollen. The centre of the spadix is naked, or only 
bears a few abortive stamens. ‘The lower part, on the side not attach- 
ed to the spatha, is covered with numerous greenish, nearly spherical, 
2-celled pistils, mostly ternate, in transverse rows, and furnished at the 
base with 2 or 4 white, clavate bodies, which I suspect to be abortive 
Anthers. Ovules, several in each cell. Stigmas sessile, large, yellow, | 
lobed and wrinkled, viscid. The more advanced state of the fructifica- 
tion I have not seen, as the plant does not bear fruit with us. 
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