1635 



ANTHURIUM* gracile. 



Slender Anthurium. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Aroideje Juss. Subtribus Pothoinse Schott. (Introduction 



rf Botany 

 ANTHURIUM.— Svatha 2 



persistens. Spadix sub- 



sessilis flosculis tetrandris. Ovaria bilocularia, loculis 2-ovulatis, ovulis 

 axi appensis. Stigma oblongum. Baccce 2-4-spermae. Semina albumi- 

 nosa. — —Americana, tropica, subacaules, erectce, v. scandentes; foliispa/- 

 matis, digitatis v. scepiUs foliolo unico perfecto, reliquis abortivis (petiolis 

 apice tumidis); vaginis stipularibus (in speciminibus floriferis !) petiolo alter- 

 nantibus persistentibus. Schott et Endlicher meletemata botanica, p. 22. 



A. gracile ; subacaule, foliis cuneato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi vald& angus- 

 tatis: venis marginalibus obsoletis, petiolis gracilibus, pedunculis fili- 

 formibus, spadicibus gracillimis paucifloris. 



rothos gracilis. Rudge plant. Guian. rar. p. 23. t. 32. R'dmer et Sckultes 

 sy$t. veg. 3. 432. 





Messrs. Schott and Endlicher, in a very elaborate 

 Memoir, have lately, and we think rightly, separated the 

 American plants usually referred to Pothos from that 

 genus, and have given them the new name of Anthurium. 

 j ne type of the genus Pothos, in the acceptation of these 

 *eam e d Botanists, is the Pothos scandens figured at fol. 1337 



of this work 



This 



1 his species is a native of the tropical parts of America : 

 t 9 e plant from which our drawing was taken was commu- 

 nicated by our liberal correspondent Mr. Richard Harrison, 

 w ho obtained it from Demerara, through the assistance of 

 1 nomas Moss, Esq. of Liverpool. It has little beauty 



* From 2U9«, a flower, and • jp, a tail ; in allusion to the form of the 



Padix. 



