Podolasia
(from pous, podos, a foot, and Lasia, from which genus it differs in having a long stipe to the spadix). ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). A monotypic genus. The species is a slender, stove perennial, of striking habit, with a short, erect caudex. It requires culture similar to Arum (which see). P. stipitata (stipitate). fl., spathe brownish-red, 3 1/2in. to 4in. long, boat-shaped, open at the base; spadix cream-coloured, changing to brownish, shorter than the spathes, rather long-stipitate; peduncle about 1ft. long, incurved or having a few prickles. l. sagittate or hastate, with elongated, narrow, acuminate lobes; petioles long and prickly. h. 1ft. Borneo, 1882.
