Tas. 5086. 
MONSTERA Apansonlit. 
Perforated Monstera. 
Nat. Ord. ArnorpE#: Trib. Cattacrm.—HeptTanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Spatha hians, tandem decidua. Spadia sessilis, basi famineus. 
Ovaria bilocularia, loculis biovulatis, ovudis infimee axeos parti affixis erectis. 
Stylus brevis, manifestus. Stigma capitatum. Fructus: bacce connate, epi- 
carpia tandem abjicientes—Americe tropice inxcole, caule scandente, foliis ovato- 
oblongis integris v. perforatis, petiolis vagina latiuscula dilatatis, spatha ex albido » 
flava, ovariis raphidophoris. Schott. . 
Monstera Adansonii ; scandens, foliis oblongo-ovatis cordatis pertusis, spathis 
cymbiformibus. 
Monsrera Adansonii. Schott, Meletem. Bot. p. 21. Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 3. 
p. 60. 
Dracontrum pertusum. Linn. Sp. Pl. 1372. Jacq. Hort. Schinbr. v. 2. p. 29. 
#.184-185. Flora Flumin. v. 9. t. 117. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 2. p. 289. 
Hort. Kew. ed. 2. v. 2. p. 336. 
- Carta Dracontium. Mey. Esseq. p. 197. 
Caza pertusa. Kunth, Syn. v. 1. p. 129. 
Dracontium, foliis pertusis, caule scandente. Miller, Gard. Dict. v. 1; Ie. t. 
296. 
Arum hederaceum, amplis foliis perforatis. Plum. dmer. v. 40. ¢. 56-57. 
The genus Monstera was established by Adanson upon this 
plant, the Dracontium pertusum of Linnzeus, and adopted by the 
distinguished writer on droidee, Dr. Schott, whose generic cha- 
racter we have adopted, and who, in his ‘ Meletemata Botanica, 
united with it the Arum ligulatum, Auct., and Pothos cannefolia, 
Rudge. Afterwards, in his ‘ Synopsis Aroidearum, he separated 
the two latter genera, and referred them to Philodeniron. 
Pceppig and Endlicher, however, and Miquel and Gardner and 
Liebmann, have each given a new species to Monstera : how far 
all of them may correspond with Schott’s views of the genus, I 
have no means of knowing. The plant is a native of tropical 
America and the West Indian Islands, and has been intro- 
duced into English gardens more than a century ago, namely, 
in 1752, by Mr. Philip Miller. 
Dzscr. It is a scandent plant, several feet in length, running 
DECEMBER IsT, 1858. 
