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176, POTHOS podophyllus. Schlechtendahl & Chamisso in Linnea, vol. 6. 
p- 22. 
When Mr. Hartweg landed in Mexico, on his mission 
from the Horticultural Society, he had the good fortune to 
make the acquantance of Mr. Lavater, a gentleman resident 
near Vera Cruz, who hospitably entertained him. At his 
residence, a few miles from that sea port, a rich harvest of 
novelties awaited our young traveller; and among many 
other things the rare Berberis tenuifolia, Cyrtochilum macu- 
latum, Brasavola glauca, all at that time new, rewarded his 
researches. Since that time a case of living plants has been 
received from Mr. Lavater, among which is this fine Pothos ; 
whose leaves have stalks a foot and more in length, and a 
circular blade more than a foot in diameter, divided into 
seven deep pinnatifid or entire acuminate lobes, the lateral 
of which are three-parted. They are of a firm texture, of a 
sea-green colour, and but little marked by other veins than 
the midrib. The flower-stalk is like the leaf-stalks, and of 
the same length, but is compressed and bluntly two-edged 
instead of being channelled along one side. ‘The spadix 1s 
dull olive green, about five inches long, and slightly tapering 
to the point; while the spathe is three times as short, oblong; 
green, and turned downwards. It appears to be the species 
above quoted, which was found by Deppe and Schiede in 
shady woods near the Hacienda de la Laguna, in Mexico ; 
differing in no important circumstance, unless in the leaves 
being rather less frequently divided. 
177. CLERODENDRON splendens. George Don in Jamieson’s Journal, 
vol. 11. p- 349. 
Of the many beautiful climbing plants inhabiting the woods 
of Sierra Leone, and of which so few are yet in cultivation, 
this is one of the best. Its foliage is of a deep rich green, 
and the flowers of a colour not inferior to that of the Euphor- 
bia splendens. It will be a stove plant, but one of the very 
handsomest in the country. It has flowered with Mr. Knight, 
at his Nursery in the King’s Road, where it had been sent 
by Mr. Whitfield. According to the author of the name, 1t 
grows on the mountains of the Colony. 
