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PHILODENDRON CRASSINERVIUM. ‘THICK- 
RIBBED PHILODENDRON. 
RK KKK KEKE KEK EE KEEKEKEE 
Class and Order. 
Monasoia TEeTRANDRIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Aro1peEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Spatha tota persistens, post florescentiam reclusa. Spadzx 
dense obsitus, appendice cereus. Anthere singuli floris 
libere. Ovarium multi (5—15)-loculare, loculis pluriovu- 
latis, ovulis axi affixis erectis—Plante Americane tropice, 
succo decolori, rhizomate in caulem elongatum scandentem 
v. arborescentem mutato, foliis remotis, vaginis petiolaribus 
brevissimis stipularibus elongatis deciduis folio oppositis. 
Schott. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Puiopenpron * crassinervium ; foliis lanceolatis acuminatis 
costa crassissima inflata, spatha obtusa cucullata api- 
culata spadicis longitudine. Lindl. 
Puiopenpron crassinervium. Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1958. 
A singular climbing Aroideous plant, which would have 
been considered a Pothos of former Botanists, a Genus now 
appropriately separated into many others by Scnorr of 
Vienna. Our flowering specimen was sent from the Edin- 
burgh Botanic Garden, by Dr. Granam, in May, 1837. 
Descr. Stem running to a considerable length, thick, 
rounded, fleshy, glabrous, as is every part of the plant: at 
intervals 
__ * grew, to love, derdpor, a tree ; from the circumstance of the species attach- 
ing themselves to trees in the tropical forests. 
