Tas. 7952. 
EPIPREMNUM aicanreum. 
Native of the Malayan Peninsula, 
, 
Nat, Ord, AromEa,—Tribe CaLLEex. 
Genus Erirremnum, Schott; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 993.) 
EvivrEmMNuM giganteum; fratex glaber, robustus, in arborum truncis alte 
scandens, caulibus pauciramosis crassis radices validas usque ad 100 
ped. longas ad terram descendeutes emittentibus, foliis amplis crasse 
coriaceis durissimis cum petolis 6-8-ped. longis 1}-2-ped. latis crebre 
distichis cordato-oblongis acuminatis integris venis transversis numero- 
sissimis, petiolo alato crasso apice geniculato laminam fere wquante 
amplexicauli, spathis solitariis axillaribus subsessillibus crasse coriaceis 
in siccis fere lignosis circiter pedalibus spadicem excedentibus per 
anthesin medio tavtum apertis, spadice sessili cylindrico per totam 
longitudinem florifero, floribus hermaphroditis vel paucis inferioribus 
femineis creberrimis, perianthio nullo, staminibus 4 quam gynzveo 
brevioribus, ovario crasso carnoso apice truncato uniloculari biovulato 
stigmate sessili lineari canaliculato, ovulis basalibus, fructu ignoto. 
E. giganteum, Schott in Bonplandia, vol. v. 1857, p. 49; Prodr. Arvid. p. 389. 
Engl. in DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 249. Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 
vol. vi. p. 548. 
Pothos giganteus, Roxb. I'l. Ind. vol. i. p. 434. 
Scindapsus giganteus, Schott in Schott et Hndlicher, Meletem. vol. i. p. 21. 
Kunth Enum, Pl. vol. iii. p. 68. : 
Monstera gigantea, C, Koch, ee Ender Index Aroid. p. 74. 
Epipremnum giganteum, Schott, was discovered by 
William Roxburgh, Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden from 1793 to 1814, in Prince of Wales Island, 
Penang, and was introduced and cultivated by him in the 
Caleutta garden. He described it under the name of 
Pothos giganteus, and it was published in his posthumous 
“Flora Indica.” It has therefore been in cultivation, 
more or less, for about a century; but we believe its in- 
troduction into Europe is due to Mr. H. N. Ridley, 
Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore, who sent a 
plant of it to Kew in 1897. This plant is now a very 
striking object in the north-west angle of the Aroid 
House, where it flowered in June of last year. 
Roxburgh remarks that it was the stoutest of the 
May Ist, 1904. 
