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*LABISIA pothoina. 
Pothos-like Spoonflower. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. MyrsiNACEA—(ARDISIADS, Lindley's Veg. Kingd. ined.) 
LABISIA. Flores spicato-paniculati parvi hermaphroditi. Calyx mi- 
nimus quinquedentatus. Corolla coriacea, 5-partita ; laciniis æstivatione in- 
duplicato-valvatis apice inflexis apiculatis. Stamina 5, ante corollæ lacinias 
et involuta. Ovarium ovatum in stylum subulatum productum, uniloculare, 
placentä centrali liberä, ovulis immersis. Drupa pisiformis, epicarpio suc- 
culento, mesocarpio crustaceo fragili, endocarpio membranaceo separabili. 
Semen solitarium, ovulis reliquis omnibus abortivis, subglobosum, testà mem- 
branaceá venosá, albumine duro corneo, embryone filiformi transverso. 
Herba perennis, repens, foliis membranaceis, petiolatis ; petiolis basi tumidis 
vix cum caule articulatis, venis primariis simplicibus dichotomisque divergen- 
tibus contiguis, secundariis reticulatis. 
Labisia pothoina. 
Caulis pedalis et minor, basi radicans; ligno tenui concentrico ezonato, 
medulla copiosissimd, cortice separabili; vasis seu fistulis resind fused repletis 
per corticem medullamque vage sparsis. Adsunt praterea undique in foliis 
foribus fructu canales vesicæ cysti materia eádem resinosá farcti. Folia pal- 
maria, tenuia, integra et denticulata, in petiolum basi tumidum cum caule in- 
articulatum decurrentia. Flores parvi, candidi, arctè in spice imaginem pani- 
culati. Calyx vesiculis resiniferis tectus pilosusque Serrugineus. Corolla 
glabra. 
This very singular plant flowered last June in the Garden 
of the Horticultural Society. It had been received from 
Penang, without a name, in a collection of curious things 
liberally presented to the Society by T. Lewis, Esq. 
Before it flowered it was taken for a Pothos or some such 
plant: for its leaves had such regularly parallel veins, and 
‘were so entirely unconnected with the stem by a joint, that 
no suspicion occurred of its being an Exogen. It proved 
however to be an Ardisiad in its flowers, and a specimen 
which Mr. Griffith sent home having proved to be in fruit 
'* From Mafic, a spoon, in allusion to the form of the divisions of the 
corolla, which resemble the bowls of small spoons. 
