Composed of bamboos and palm-leaves, they are not essentially different from the dwellings of poor Filipinos; and in their neighborhood were small fields planted with batata, maize, caladium and sugar-cane, and enclosed by magnificent polypody ferns.
"The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes"
Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes
1 Bulb Chlidanthus Fragrans 1 Yellow Calla 1 New Giant Gloxinia 1 Begonia 1 Canna Musafolia 1 Fancy caladium 1 Gloxinia Tubiflora 1 Sauromatum Simlense 1 Japan Lily 1 Easter Gladiolus 1 Pkt.
"The Mayflower, January, 1905"
Various
Close to my face, so near that it startled me for a moment, over the curved length of a long narrow caladium leaf, there came suddenly two brilliant lights.
"Jungle Peace"
William Beebe