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Tas. 6818. 
PHILODE NDRON Gtaziovit. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. ArorIpEZ.—Tribe Paropaepien: 
Genus PHInopENDRON, Schott ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 978.) 
PaHILopENDRON Glaziovii ; caule scandente robusto, foliis distichis alternis longe 
petiolatis lineari-oblongis acuminatis basi cuneatis crasse coriaceis luride 
viridibus subtus pallidioribus, costa crassa superae planiuscula, nervis arcuatis 
copiosis marginem attingentibus, petiolo teretiusculo, vagina inconspicua, 
spathis apicem versus caulis axillaribus breviter crasse pedunculatis reclinatis 
expansis apice roundatis et apiculatis oblongis stramineis tubo brevi intus 
sanguineo, spadice sessili erecto spathe equilongo sed haud incluso cylindraceo 
_ sensim attenuato subacuto, inflorescentia foeminea mascula multo breviore, 
ovario 6-8-loculari, stigmate sessili pulvinari, ovulis 3-5-basilaribus. 
This fine species does not accord with the description of 
any in Engler’s monograph of the Aroidee. Nor does it 
fit well into any of his ten sections of the genus, though I 
suppose it should be referred to the rather heterogeneous 
assemblage which compose that called Baursia by Reichen- 
bach the elder, and which Schott subdivided under the 
names Canniphyllum and Gilossophyllum. It appears to me 
to be very nearly allied to P. Linnwi, Kunth, a native of 
Para and Dutch Guiana, which is described as having 
somewhat similar leaves with equal lateral nerves, and a 
white spathe with a red tube, but which differs in having 
only two-ovuled cells, and in the female inflorescence being 
only half as short as the male. 
P. Glaziovii was sent together with no fewer than 
seventy species of Aroids to the Royal Gardens by Senr. 
A. Glaziou, Director of Public and Imperial Gardens at Rio 
de Janeiro, of which country it is presumably a native; 
and I have named it in compliment to that able and zealous 
officer, whose contributions to the establishment of Kew, 
of both living plants and Herbarium specimens, have been 
of very great extent and high value,in both a botanical 
and horticultural point of view. There is nowhere to be 
may Ist, 1885. 
