Tab. 6375. 



PHILODENDKON serpens. 



Native of New Grenada. 



Nat. Ord. AroidejE.— Tribe Philodendre*:. 

 Genus Philodendron, Sohott. (Prodr. Syst, Aroid, p. 219). 



Philodendron serpens ; caudice flexuoso scandente ad nodos radicante apicem 

 versus folioso et squamis fuacis fibrosis persistentibus tecto, foliis amplis 

 oblongo-panduriformibus acutis v. apiculatis basi cordatis multinerviis, 

 nervis borizontalibus lente sursum arcuatis tenuibus loborum posticorum 

 3-4 in unum intramarginalem crassiuscukun conjunctis, petiolo viridi 

 laminae subsequilongo tereti paleis crassiusculis subulatis brevibus recurvis 

 dense obtecto, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis crassis albis, spatlia alba cir- 

 cumscriptione oblonga, dimidio inferiore ovoideo clauso, superiore sequilato 

 late cymbiformi apiculato aperto, spadice crasso recto spatlia paulo breviore 

 albo subacuto, ovariis depressis 5-6-gonis 5-6-locularibus, stigmate sessili 

 radiatim 5-6-lobo, lobis rotundatis. 



A very handsome species of the immense tropical American 

 genns Philodendron, imported from New Grenada by Messrs. 

 Veitch, and well suited for the wall-decoration of a humid 

 tropical house. It belongs to Schott's second section of the 

 genus, with more or less cordiform leaves, and the nerves 

 arching upwards ; but I am not so certain as to which of 

 the subordinate groups of that order it should be referred. 

 It agrees with that called Achyropodium in the character of 

 the petiole, but the venules are less pinnately disposed. 

 There is no plant answering to it in the Kew collection, 

 which has recently been catalogued by Mr. N. E. Brown, 

 and the list of its contents published in the Official Eeport 

 of the Eoyal Gardens for 1877. 



Descr. Caudex long, scandent, serpentine, rooting at the 

 nodes probably against the bark of forest trees ; leafy at the 

 summit,- clothed between the leaves with dense masses of the 

 fibrous remains of the sheathing scales. Leaves bright green ; 

 blade a foot to a foot and a half long,between oblong and fiddle- 



AUGUST 1st, 1878. 



