Figs 
POTHOS PENTAPHYLLA. FIVE-LEAVED 
POTHOS. 
RRR RE EE EEE EEE EE 
Clafs and Order. 
TETRANDRIA MoNnoGyNIA. 
Generic Chara@er. 
Spatha, Spadix fimplex floribus te&tus. Cal.o.  Petala 4. 
Bacca difperma. ré 
Specific Charadler and Synonyms. 
POTHOS pentaphylia ; foliis digitatis quinatis ovatis acu- 
| minatis. Willd. Sp. Pl. 1. p. 687. Perfoon Syn. 1. 
p» 127. Hort. Kew. ed. alt. 1. p. 270. 
ee pentaphyllum. Aublet Guian. 2. Pp» 837. 
i, 90, | 
_ _ Our drawing was made: at the colle@tion of Mr. Vers, of 
_Kenfington-Gore, This gentleman’s intelligent gardener in- 
forms us that it came from the Ifland of Trinidad. It appears 
to be the fame as Austet’s Dracontium pentapbyilum, who 
ftates that it isa native of the woods of Cayenne, where it 
climbs up the trunks of old trees, throwing out roots at each 
knot, which infinuate themfelves in the crevices of the bark.. 
We obferve a {pecimen of the fame in the Bankfian Herbarium, 
from the Ifland of St. Lucia a 
Requires to be kept in the bat k ftove with other tropical a 
vegetables, es * 
