Tab. 7817. 



MONTRICHARDIA aculeata. 



Native of the West Indies and Amazons Biver. 



Nat. Ord. AROiDEiE. — Tribe PniLODENDiiEiK. 

 Gunus MONTHICHARDIA, Grxig.; {Benth. & Roolc.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 982). 



MoNTKicHAHDiA aculeuta ; caudice elongate robusto tereti annulate laevi 

 V. hie illic spimiloao, foliis padalibus ovate- v. deltoideo-oblongia 

 acunoinatis fere ad medium sagittatis supra Igete viridibas costia nervisque 

 pallidis subtus flavo-viridibu3 nervnlo marginali tenuissimo, lobis 

 posticia inajqualibua valide costatis obtuse acumiuatis sinu lato v. 

 angusto antico pauUo breviore late triansrulari-ovato, petiolo lamina 

 breviore supra concave dorso rotundato, vagina marginibus petioli longe 

 adnata dein libera elongata lanceolata, peduncule brevi crasBO § poll, 

 diam., spathfB 8 poll, longae tube bipollicari fere globoso If poll. diam. 

 flavo-viridi intus roseo, lamina explanata ovato-lanceolata acuminata 

 extus flavo-viridi intu3 pallida citrina, spadice 4| poll, lon^o crasso apice 

 rotundato, infl. 3 fere poUicem diam. colore spathge, antheris sessilibTis 

 crassia subtrigonig truncatis rimis brevibua extua dehiacentibua, infl. ? 

 quam S triplo breviore fuaco-viridi, ovariis gubprismaticis truncatis 1-locu- 

 laribus, stigmata sphinctriformi centre umbenato. 



M. aculeata, Griig. in Bot. Zeit. vol. xii. (1854) p. 25. Schott, Syn. Avoid. 

 p. 72; Prudr. Syst. Avoid, p. 217. 



M. arborescens, Schott, Arac. Betveff. (1854) p. 4; Sijn. Avoid, p. 71 ; Prodr. 

 Syst. p. 215. Engl, in Mart. Ft. Bras. vol. iii. para II. p. 127, t. 25 ; in 

 DC. Monogr. Phanerog. vol. ii. Arac. p. 288. 



M. arborea, Schott, Syn. Aroid. p. 72 ; Prodr. p. 217. 



M. arborescens et aculeata, Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 510. 



Arum arborescens, Plumier, Descr. PL Amir. t. 204. Veil. Fl. Flum. vol. ix. 

 t. 109. 



Caladiura arborescens, Vent. Jard. Gels, sub t. 30. 



C arborescens et C. aculeatum, G. F. W. Mey. Prim. Fl. Fsseq. p- 274. 



Philodendron arboreum, Kunth, Enum. PI. vol. iii. p. 48. 



A noble tropical Aroid, native of various localities 

 near the coast from the West Indies to the Amazons River. 

 The late Hermann Criiger, Superintendent of the Botanical 

 Gardens of Trinidad, who founded the genus, named it 

 after his friend, Count Montrichard, of that island, a 

 zealous promoter of science. He described it as formmg 

 thickets in moist places near the sea. 



The plant here figured was sent to the Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, by Mr. Jenraan, F.L.S., Superintendent of the Botan- 

 ical Gardens, and Government Botanist, British Guiana, in 



February 1st, 1902. 



