. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 210 CALADIUM CALAMOVILPA lateral veins 4-7, erect-spreading or spreading. Brazil. — Variable, furnishing many of the fancy-leaved Caladi- ums. (1) Transp^.ent white blade, 49. Var. Bellejmei, Engl. (G. Sellej/mU, Hort.). Fig. 311. Petiole greenish above, variegated violet beneath; blade slenderly hastate-sagitt
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 210 CALADIUM CALAMOVILPA lateral veins 4-7, erect-spreading or spreading. Brazil. — Variable, furnishing many of the fancy-leaved Caladi- ums. (1) Transp^.ent white blade, 49. Var. Bellejmei, Engl. (G. Sellej/mU, Hort.). Fig. 311. Petiole greenish above, variegated violet beneath; blade slenderly hastate-sagittate, white, translucent ex-. 31J. Caladium Humboldtii. (No. 57.) cept the green veins and nerves, with small green spots along the margin ; basal lobes 1-5, or rarely ]4 ot % connate. Para. 7:252. 8:127. (2) Pale green blade. (a) With transparent blotches. 50. Var. hastitum, Engl. (C. hastdttim, Lem.). Peti- ole long, stout, white, violet-spotted ; blade hastate- sagittate, slightly contracted above the lobes ; dull, pale green, very irregularly marked with transparent blotches; basal lobe J4 connate, crimson margined in the sinus. Para. (aa) Opaque. 51. Var. albostriitulum, Engl. Blade greenish white along the midrib and veins, white-striped and dotted between the nerves. 52. Var. Osyanum, C. Koch. Blade white along the midrib and primary veins, with purple spots between the veins. 53. Var. porphyronetiron, Engl. (C. porphyroneitron, C. Koch. C. cupreum, Hort. Alochsia porphyroneiira, Lem.). Petiole pale reddish, variegated with dull vio- let ; blade broadly hastate-sagittate, dull, pale green, slightly reddish on the veins, opaque basal lobes 1-0-/^ connate. Peru and Brazil. 8: 297. (3) Dark green blade. 54. Var. filegans, Engl. Petiole rosy, greenish below, variegated ; blade narrowly hastate-sagittate, slightly contracted above the lobes, dark green above, broadly red or purple next the midrib and primary lateral veins; basal lobes 1-5 connate. 55. Var. Lem
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