Tas. 6218. 
ANTHURI UM SAuNDERsII. 
Native of Brazil ? 
Nat. Ord. AROIDEZ.—Tribe OronTicz. 
Genus AnTauriIUM, Schott (Prodr. Syst. Aroid., p. 486). 
AntuuriIuM (Dactylophyllium) Sauwndersii; scandens, caule crassitie penne 
olorine, foliis digitatis, petiolo 6-pollicari gracili, geniculo }-pollicari, 
foliolis 7-9 subsessilibus 8-pollicaribus anguste lineari-lanceolatis 4 poll. latis 
caudato-acuminatis integerrimis incurvis, pendunculo pollicari, spatha 
2-pollicari ovato-lanceolata alba spadice equilongo, stigmate sessili obtuse 
quadrato, 
The number of species of Anthurium appears to be very 
great, no less than 180 being enumerated in Schott’s Prod- 
romus. The humid forests of America, from Mexico to 
South Brazil, on both coasts, abound in species of varied form 
and statnre, from herbs a few inches high to gigantic climbers 
that by their weight bring forest trees to the ground. For 
hot-house culture, where perennial green foliage is required, 
no genus of plants is more commendable, because of the 
bright glossy foliage that attracts no insects and harbours 
few, the little care they require in culture, and the bad treat- 
ment they will endure and yet live. The Kew collection of 
them, which contains upwards of seventy species, besides _ 
varieties, has long been celebrated, though it never equalled 
that at the Imperial Gardens, Schoenbrunn, near Vienna, 
when under the directorship of the late Professor Schott, who 
made the collection and study of Aroids the labour of a life- 
time. 
Anthurium Saundersii was received from the rich collection 
of W. W. Saunders, Esq., but with no information as to its 
native country, under the name of A. coriacewm, Lind. ; but 
it widely differs from Endlicher’s plant of that name, and 
approaches more nearly to A. Ottonianum, Kunth., also a 
native of Brazil, and to one called A. jatrophefolium, in the 
Kew collection, a name I have not found in any publication. 
engin Stem as thick as a swan’s quill, climbing, about 
ARCH Ist, 1876, 
