Tad. C963. 

 AXTHUEIUM Veitciiii. 



Native of Colombia. 



Nat. Ord. Aroideje. — Tribe Okontiej?. 

 Genus Antiitjeium, Schott ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. vol. iii. p. 90S.) 



AnthtTRIT/M (Cardiophyllum) Veitchil ; caudice brevi, foliis maximis limina ab 

 apice petioli subaaquilongi pendula elongato-oblonga acuminata basi profunda 

 cordata, lobis rotundatis sinu angusto v. sese obtegentibus, nervis perphmmis 

 patentim arcuatis profunde depressis, lamina inter nervos convexa, basilaribus 

 retrorsurn arcnatis, saturate viridibus supra lucidis, infra pallide e viridi 

 brunneis, petiolo tereti non canaliculate, geniculo incassalo pollicari, pedunculo 

 robusto tereti petiolis dimidio breviore, spatba libera pedali lanceolata caudato- 

 acuminata basi subcordata, patenti-recurva, epadice ses^ili crasM obtusa 

 straminea, perianthii foliolis crassis subquadratis truncatia facie ventrali 

 concavis, ovario elongato-conico 2 loculari, siigniate minute, loculis 1-ovulati*. 



A. Veitchii, Masters in Gard. Chron. N.S. vol. vi. (1876), p. 772, fi?. 143; 

 Engler Monoyr. Aracece, p. 178 ; And r€ III. ITorticol. vol. xxviii. t. 4A)6. 



No Araceous plant surpasses the subject of this plate in 

 stateliness and beauty of foliage. A fall-grown plant of it 

 quite fills the end of the centre table of an ordinary stove, 

 and arrests the eye by its graceful habit, the gigantic size 

 of the pendulous leaves, which are four feet long in well 

 grown plants, the brilliancy of their green, and if placed 

 in a favourable position, the play of light on the numerous 

 polished symmetrically curved convexities that cross each 

 half of the blade from the tip to the base. The spadix 

 and spathe are very inconspicuous, the latter being pale 

 green, and the former dull straw-coloured. 



A hybrid raised by Mr. Bull between .1. Veitckianum 

 and A. Andreaniu,>, is A. chelseiensis, N.B. Br. (in " Gard. 

 Chron." vol. xxiv. 1885, p. 650); it is no improvement 

 upon either parent. 



This beautiful plant was very appropriately named by 

 Dr. Masters after the most eminent of living cultivators, 

 who generously presented to Kew the specimen here 

 figured, and which flowered at Kew in June of the present 

 year. It is a native of Colombia, and was discovered by 

 Mr. Waters, who suggested the specific name of his patrons 

 dec. 1st, 1887. 



