11-18 in. broad, deeply cordate-ovate, acute, shortly 
pinnatifidly lobed, with the roundish basal lobes separated 
by a narrow acute sinus 43-7 cm. deep, bright deep green 
above, dull purple between the green veins beneath, 
changing to green with age; midrib flat above, very 
prominent beneath ; primary veins about 7 on each side of 
the midrib, with the 2 basal ones close together, the others 
distant ; impressed above, prominent beneath ; basal lobes 
with 5-6 primary veins, all united into one at the base, 
where it is shortly denuded at the sinus. Inflorescence 
solitary in each axil. Pedunele short, green, with whitish 
lines. Spathe with an ellipsoid tube 3 in. long, of a rich 
purple-crimson, with scattered spots of crimson-brown and 
numerous rows of minute white dots outside, and bright 
deep carmine inside; limb 4-44 in. long, 21-22 in. broad, 
boat-shaped, with a short convolute point, hght green, 
spotted with red outside and carmine, with darker spots 
inside, shading into white at the margins. Spadia 6-65 in. 
long, 4-2 in. thick, terete, acute, slightly curved forwards, 
creamy-white.—N. E. Brown. 
Curtivation.— While in the genus Anthurium hybrids of 
garden origin are numerous and in the genus Richardia there 
are several, the plant now figured is the only hybrid Philo- 
dendron that has been raised artificially. This plant, which 
was purchased for Kew as an ornamental foliage plant, has 
been grown under moist tropical conditions in the Aroid 
(No. I.) House, where it has climbed up the stem of a tree- 
fern to the height of about 8 feet, and it was not until it 
developed flowers at Kew that the decided attractiveness of 
its inflorescence, both as regards size and colour, were 
revealed, Most of the Philodendrons have large, handsome 
and fragrant flowers, and are excellent plants for clothing 
pillars, palm-stems and back-walls in tropical houses, 
purposes for which they are largely employed at Kew both 
in the Palm House and in the Aroid House, near the 
main entrance.—W,. Warson. 
Fig. 1, spadix, with the spathe removed; 2, two stamens; 3, Ovary :— 
Leaf reduced; fig. 1, natural size; 2 and 8, enlarged. 
