Tas. 6616. 
ANTHURIUM ANDR#EANUM. 
Native of New Grenada. 
Nat. Ord. ArorpEx.—Tribe OronTIEX. 
Genus AnrHuriuMm, Schott; (Prodr. Syst. Aroid. p. 436.) 
Antuurium Andreanum; caudice brevi vy. subelongato, foliis elongato-ovato- v. 
oblongo-cordatis acutis sinu profundo acuto nervis numerosis, petiolo gracili 
elongato geniculo elongato cylindraceo, pedunculo gracili petiolum longe 
superante, spatha deflexa v. horizontali subpeltata ovato-rotundata acuta 
explanata basi profunde cordato-2-loba lobis rotundatis superpositis inter 
nervos elevatos lacunosa coccinea, spadice spathe squilonga paullo decurva, 
floribus pallidis rhombeis, perianthii foliolis 3-gonis vertice truncatis latioribus 
quam longis, filamentis brevibus subquadratis, antherarum loculis parallelis 
contiguis oblongis, ovario oblongo, stigmate disciforme. 
A. Andreanum, Linden in Illust. Hortic. vol. xxiv. p. 43, t.271; Engler in A. DC. 
Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. p. 160; Masters in Gard. Chron. 1880, p. 490, 
fig. 83; Rev. Hortic. 1881, p. 170. 
This is certainly one of the gaudiest plants that have been 
of late years introduced into cultivation, far exceeding in 
all points of foliage and in size of spathe, though hardly in 
richness of colouring, the now well-known A. Scherzerianum 
(so inadequately represented in Tab. 5319 of this work). 
Tt is a native of the province of Choco, in New Grenada, 
at an elevation of about 4000 feet, and was discovered 
there many years ago by M. Triana, the indefatigable 
explorer of that State, who, previous to M. André’s visit to 
South America, directed his attention to the region of its 
growth as an almost unexplored one, abounding in new and 
interesting plants. The Kew Herbarium is indebted to the 
enterprising traveller and introducer of the plant, whose 
name is so well associated with it, for a reduced sketch of 
the whole plant, a tracing of a full-sized leaf, and an ex- 
cellent dried specimen of both leaf and inflorescence. 
There is also in the Kew Herbarium a specimen of it 
collected at Popayan by Lehmann, presented by Dr. 
APRIL Ist, 1882, 
