seen such a collection of tropical American tree-ferns as _ 
now adorns the wing of the Tropical Fern House at Kew; 
‘and for these we are indebted to Senr. Glaziou’s knowledge 
of what to send, and how to send them. ; 
P. Glaziovii was received in 1880, and flowered in May, 
1883, in the Aroid House at Kew. 
Descr. A climbing aroid, with a stem as thick as the 
thumb, and now five feet high, leafy from the base, as 
yet unbranched, and rooting from the base of every leaf 
against a damp wall. Leaves alternate, distichous, eighteen 
inches long by three to five inches broad, linear-oblong, 
acute, coriaceous, midrib flat above, prominent beneath; 
nerves all very slender, arching from the midrib, crowded 
and reaching the narrowly cartilaginous margin, petiole 
rather shorter than the blade, terete, slightly flattened 
above, nearly as thick as the little finger; sheath very 
short. Spathes axillary, shortly stoutly peduncled, six to 
seven inches long, by two and a half to three broad, 
straight, reclinate, oblong, concave, apiculate, greenish- 
yellow externally, straw-coloured within, scarlet within 
the short thick convolute tube; margins above recurved. 
Spadix as long as the spathe, sessile, wholly exserted 
beyond the tube, strict, cylindric, under half an inch in 
diameter, slightly tapering upwards; male inflorescence 
four times as long as the female, lower half with perfect, 
upper with imperfect anthers. Ovary shortly oblong, six- to 
eight-celled ; stigma sessile, pulvinate. Ovules four to five, 
erect from the base of each cell, anatropous.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Reduced figure of the whole plant; 2 and 3, male flowers; 4, imperfect 
ditto ; 5, female flowers ; 6, tr aks . : a 
all but fig. 1 enlarged. ansverse, and 7, vertical section of ovary ; 8, ovules: 
