I ever beheld. In the Botanical Garden of Berlin and 
St. Petersburg they also form a great feature, and the 
aroid house at Kew is not inferior to these latter, though 
it never rivalled the Schcenbrunn collection. The Kew 
collection is greatly indebted to Mr. N. E. Brown, of the 
Herbarium, for its nomenclature; and a list of the species’ 
it contained was drawn up by him for the Report of the 
Royal Gardens during the year 1877; it included about 
250 species, of which 42 belonged to the genus Plalo- 
dendron. 
P. Sellowm was first flowered in this country by Mr. W. H. 
Tillett, of Sprowston Lodge, Norwich, who communicated 
fine specimens of it to me in 1873, and again in the present 
year, from which the plate here presented was made. It 
flowers in the spring months, and is an extremely handsome 
plant, having a powerful aromatic odour, especially at 
night. Itis a native of humid forests in various parts of 
Brazil, from the Province of St. Paul to that of Minas 
Geras, and also of Paraguay. ? 
Descr. Tall, stout, subarborescent, scandent ; branches 
with close-set s¢ars, sending down long cord-like roots. 
Leaves one to two feet long, ovate with a hastate base, 
pinnatifid, dark shining green; pinne lobulate; lobules 
pointing forward, obtuse, nerves strong pale, nervules 
_ very slender. Spathe a foot long, on a very short stout 
peduncle, narrowly oblong, extremely thick, dark green 
externally, pale yellow within; tube rather narrower and 
about as long as the concave apiculate lamina. Spadiz all — is 
pale yellow, very stout, as long as the spathe; female part 
short, adnate to the spathe; male portion long, stouter, 
obtuse. Stamens slender. Ovary short, deeply grooved, ee 
about eight-celled ; stigma thick, contracted at the base, 
top concave, eight-lobed, lobes obtuse; ovules few in each 
cell.—J. D. H. , 
Fig. 1, Leaf, reduced ; 2, portion of do., and 3, section of petiole, both of natural : 
8, ovary; 9, transverse, and 10, vertical section of do.; 11, ovules :—all enlarged. 
size; 4, spathe and spadix, of the natural size; 6, barren, and 7, perfect stamens; 
