Remusatia
(named in honour of Abel Remusat, 1785-1832, a celebrated Orientalist and physician). ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). A genus comprising three or four species of stove, tuberous herbs, natives of the mountainous regions of the sub-tropical East Indies and Java. Flowers monoecious, on an inappendiculate spadix, which is shorter than the spathe, sessile, and constricted in the middle; male and female flowers remote; male inflorescence clavate, stipitate, the female narrower and sub-cylindrical; spathe with a convolute, persistent, green tube, a constricted throat, and a yellowish, spreading or refracted, at length split and deciduous lamina; peduncles short. Leaves on long and slender stalks, peltate, ovate-cordate, or lanceolate. Only one species is known to cultivation. It requires culture similar to Caladium (which see).
R. vivipara (viviparous). l. petioled, peltate, cordate, entire, 4in.to 12in. long, and 3in. to 8in. broad, acute, smooth on both sides; posterior lobes obtuse. Scales of the bulbs each ending in a hooked bristle. East Indies. (L. B. C. 281, under name of Caladium viviparum.)