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POTHOS'' scandens. 



Climbing Pothos, 



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TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



POTHOS. 



Nat. ord. Auoidea:. 



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— Spadix undiquc flonbus hermaphroditis tecta. Calyx 

 tiullus V. tetrasepalus. Stamina A^finxidi. Ovarium uniloculare, 1-3-sper- 

 nium ; ovuHs ascendentibus v. appensis. Bacca l-locularis, oligosperma 



Herbse v, arbusculee nunc scandentes. 



p. scandens ; epiphyta, radicans, petiolis alatis foliorum longitudine, folijs 



ovato-lanceolatis, spathis axillaribus, spadice subgloboso. 

 Ana-Parua. Hheede Hort. malab. 7. 75. t. 40. 



Appendix duplo folio. Rumph. amboin. 5. 490. t. 184. /. 2. ' ' 



Pothos scandens. linn. sp. pi. 1347. &c. &c.&c. 



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A native of various parts of the East Indies, partie 

 larly Ceylon, and the islands of the Eastern Archipelag 



It is not 



Chinese, vi^he 



nfrequently seen upon 



the drawings of 



ally represented in fruit 



It 



of deep scarlet berries 



particularly distinguished by its foliaccous petiol 



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but it is not improbable that 



pecies than one has 



this character ; and if so, that now represented, in which 

 the petioles are remarkably short, may be dift'erent from 

 the genuine Cingalese species, in which the petioles are 

 ^s long as the leaves, or nearly so, and the spadixes 

 larger. The plant from which our drawing was made was 

 imported from China by Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery 



frairrant. 



taken in Ap 



The flowers are most deliciously 



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* Potha being the Cingalese name of the species now described 

 •^een applied to the whole genus. 



