Tas. 5760. 
: AGLAONEMA Maynn. 
Mr, Mann’s Aglaonema. 
Nat. Ord. Arnorppm.—Monecra PoLyanpria. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 5500.) 
Actaonema Mannii; foliis breviter petiolatis elliptico-oblongis mucronatis 
luride viridibus, vaginis 2-3-pollicaribus viridibus, margimibus anguste 
membranaceis, spatha breviter pedunculata 2 poll. longa oblonga 
acuta, e basi breviter convoluta aperta sordide alba, spadice spatha 
paulo breviore cylindrico obtuso, ovariis ad 15 depressis 2-locularibus, 
stigmate sessili disciformi concavo, antheris 3-gonis late truncatis 2- 
porosis. 
To those who cultivate stove plants, the value of the 
tropical Aroids is well known, because of their fine evergreen 
foliage and remarkable freedom from insects, their singular 
form, and the often conspicuous nature of their floral organs. 
Of the several hundreds that are in cultivation in England, 
and on the continent, where they are more highly prized 
than with us, not half a dozen have been imported from 
Tropical Africa, where various species form conspicuous 
features in the humid forests of the west coast. Amongst 
these is the subject of the present plate, which was sent to 
the Royal Gardens by Mr. Gustav Mann from the Victoria 
Mountains, one of the Cameroon range, which that intrepid 
traveller and excellent collector was the first to explore. 
The genus to which it belongs has hitherto been known as a 
native of India only, where it ranges from the foot of the 
Eastern Himalaya through the Malayan peninsula and 
islands to the Moluccas, and it thus forms another proof of 
.- close affinity between the tropical African and Malayan 
oras. 
Descr. Stem eighteen inches to two feet high, as thick as 
MARCH Ist, 1869. 
