Tas. 7437. 
ANTHURIUM Gostavt. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. Anorpr%.—Tribe ORONTIE. 
Genus AntuvuRivm, Schott. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 998.) 
Antuvrivum (Cardiophyllum) Gustavi; acaule, foliis longe petiolatis cordato- 
ovatis obtusis, margine undulatis, lobis rotundatis, sinu oblongo, nervis 
primariis utrinque 10-15 inferioribus retrorsis, petiolo lamina longiore 
teretiusculo alte costato, geniculo mediocri, spatha cylindracea lente 
curva pedali breviter crasse pedunculata basin versus sensim tumescente 
apice attenuata obtusa crasse coriacea luride purpurea levissima margini- 
bus incurvis, spadice spatha paulo longiore sessili cylindracea obtusa 
purpurea, sepalis linearibus truncatis subtrigonisintus profunde canali- 
culatis, filamentis linearibus compressis, antheris late oblongis, ovarioin ~ 
stylum crassum elongatum attenuato. 
A. Gustavi, Regel in Gartenfl. v. 1878 (1878), p. 324, nomen, et (1882), p. 67, 
t. 1076. Engler, Monogr. Arac. in DC. Monogr. Phanerogam, vol. ii. 
p- 640, nomen. 
Anthurium Gustavi was discovered by G. Wallis near Buona- 
ventura, a seaport in the province of Cauca, in New Grenada, 
and was introduced by him into the Imperial Botanical 
Gardens of St. Petersburg in 1878. There it flowered, 
and was figured by Regel in the Gartenflora in 1882, but the 
spathe, according to the description given, was only a little 
over five inches (13 cm.) long; and the petiole is described 
as subterate. The leaves, however, had attained the same 
dimensions as those of the Kew specimen. The plant here 
figured was obtained from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. 
Albans. Itis growing in a large pan over the tank in the 
Victoria House of the Royal Gardens, where the leaves 
attain a diameter of three feet, and the petioles a length 
of three and a half feet. The species had previously been 
sent (in 1887) to the Royal Gardens from Herrenhausen, 
Hanover, by Dr. Wendland, but had not flowered. 
Descr.—Stem very short, stout, tuberous; basal sheaths 
few, small, red-brown, not enveloping the base of the petioles 
and peduncle. Leaves one and a half to nearly four feet 
long, rather longer than their petioles, broadly ovate-cor- 
date, obtuse, thinly coriaceous, bright green above, paler 
OctoBER Ist, 1895. 
