. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. XANTHOSOMA XANTHOSOMA (Greek, yellow body, referring to the stigma). Ariceie. This genus is interesting to the horticulturist as containing the handsome variegated stove foliage plant known to the trade as Phyllotcenium Lindeni, and part of the vegetables known as &quo
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. XANTHOSOMA XANTHOSOMA (Greek, yellow body, referring to the stigma). Ariceie. This genus is interesting to the horticulturist as containing the handsome variegated stove foliage plant known to the trade as Phyllotcenium Lindeni, and part of the vegetables known as "Malanga a crop to which tno per cent of the arable land in Porto Ri o is devoted. Many species ot the -iium family are noted for their huge tiltr some of which areelille after th i i 1 and more or less i i i lit r dispersed by the | 1 i or by its di sipat 1 II {H M. 4989). Of thi^ 1 II k ^u is the Elephant s L ( / ti culenta. The Milan^a is i i to be lit tie, if at all, inferior to ( ? 7 > escu lentum; in wholesomeness an 1 lelicaoy far superior to spmath and in this re spect it may vie with any European vege table whatever —Bot Mag The 'iintia Malanga" of Porto Rico is according to Cook, Coloca!,ia ant q lorum var es citlenfa. Other Tantias "^re spe les f Xanthosoma. The botany of tbei i i oi Xanthosoma is a gen i f " I le according to Engler wl 1 i \ i i account of them in L t n ii IX i Phaner. (18 1) Tl e\ i i lk\ herbs of South and C entr 1 \n e 1 a tuberous or tall and thick il iz ii e 1 arrow-shaped 3 cut or pedateh cut fls unisexual, naked males with 4-0 sta mens connate in in inversely pyramidal synandriuin with 5 or 6 faces ovary ^-4 loculed; ovules anatropous. A. Ciiiidex a short, thick, erect rhizome. sagittifdlium, Schott {Artim sagiftifd- limn, Linn.}. MALANGA. A tropical vegetabli plants of this are stemless, but in age, from the decay of the old Ivs., an annulated caudex is formed some inches in height, each throwing out stout fibers f
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