Tas. 7744, 
POTHOS LouREIRI. 
Native of China and Tonkin. 
Nat. Ord. ArompExX.—Tribe OrnontTIEZ. 
Genus Poruos, Linn. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 999.) 
Pornos (Eupothos) Loureiri; frutex alte scandens, ramulis floriferis paucis 
gracilibus, internodiis brevibus, foliorum  petiolo 4-5-pollicari 3-} 
poll. lato lineari stricto basi et apice rotundato v. truncato lete viridi, 
lamina 13-2 poll. longe anguste lanceolata acuminata recurva, pedunculis 
2-3 poll. longis gracilibus arcuatis, spatha 1}-2-pollicari lineari v. lineari- 
lanceolata, spadice 2-4 pollicari stipitata gracili fructifera elongata ad 
5-pollicari cylindracea, floribus minutis confertis, filamentis dilatatis 
infra apicem repente constrictis, antheris minimis, baccis ellipsoideis % 
poll. longis coccineis. 
P. Loureiri, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. p. 220. Schott Aroid. vol. i. 
p. 23, t. 49. Prodr. Aroid. p. 569. Engler in DO. Monogr, Phanerog. 
vol, ii. p. 87. 
P. terminalis, Hance in Ann. Se. Nat. Ser. V. vol. v. (1866) p. 247. 
Flagellaria repens, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 212; Ed. Willd. vol. i. p. 263. 
Of the genus Pothos, numbering about fifty species, 
all natives of the tropics of the Old World, P. Loureiri is 
the first figured in this magazine, for the six bearing that 
generic name all are referable to other genera. These 
are— 7 
— oer, Dryand. (t. 603), which is Spathiphyllum cannefolium, 
Chott, 
. Soetid it. (t. i idus, Salisd. 
Bpetaphytiay Walt (& 199) 9 Ashore pentaphytiom, @. Do. 
P. macrophyllus, Willd. (t. 2301), is Anthurium cordifolium, Kunth. 
P. microphyllus, Hook. (t. 2953), is Anthurium microphyllum, Endl. 
P. crassinervius, Hook. (t. 2987), is Anthurium Hookeri, Kunth. 
P. Louretri is a native of Southern China; where it was 
collected by Loureiro, and described by him as a Flagellaria 
in his “ Flora of Cochinchina,” published in 1790. There 
are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Macao 
_- (Millett), from Tingushan, on the West River (Samp- 
Son), and from Tonkin (Balansa). A living plant of it 
Was received at the Royal Gardens, Kew, from that 
of Hong Kong in 1888, which flowers annually in the 
Aroid House, where it is trained for twelve feet on a 
Pole, It fruited freely this year for the first time. 
Novemser Ist, 1900. 
