Peltandra
(from pelte, a target, and aner, andros, a stamen; alluding to the shape of the stamens). SYNS. Lecontia, Renselaeria. ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). A genus comprising only a couple of species of hardy, marsh-loving, perennial herbs, with very slender rhizomes, natives of North-eastern America. Spathe convolute, with an elongated, persistent tube, and the margins of the lamina undulated; spadix much shorter than the spathe, slender, erect, cylindrical, almost entirely covered, except at the top, with densely-crowded flowers. Leaves sub-peltate, hastate, with very slender, dense nerves; petioles long, sheathing. P. virginica, the species best known in gardens, must be grown, like Calla, in shallow water, in a sunny, sheltered pond. P. virginica (Virginian). Arrow Arum. fl. thickly covering the long and tapering spadix throughout; "upper portion of the spathe, and sterile portion of the spadix, rotting away after florescence, leaving the fleshy base firmly inclosing the globular cluster of fruit" (Asa Gray). June. l. large, pointed; nerves reticulated next the margin. h. 1ft. 1759.