. Pothos: ^ — mSRTRANDRIA MONOGYNIX; | asi 
s. T. quadrispinosa, R. 
— Nut with two opposite pairs of straight, acute, spinous horns. 
A native of Silhet, where it is found floating on lakes, and pools 
of fresh water, its kernels are also esculent. z 
 POTHOS. Schreb. Gen. N. 910; 
Spathe sub- side: Spadir covered with florets. Calyx none, 
` "ór four-petalled; coro! none. Stamina indefinite, Germ oneecelled, 
from one to three-seeded ; attachment of the ovula inferior (in hete- 
rophylla superior.) Berry one-celled, rarely many-seeded. Babys 
uneinate, without perisperm. 
ds P. scandens, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. Willd. i. 684. 
- Parasitic, rooting. Petioles as broad as the lanceolar leaves. Flow- 
: ers axillary ; spadix gobular, reflex. — 
Ana-Parua, Rheed. Hort. Mal. và. p. 75. t. 40. 
Adpendix duplo folio, Rumph. amb. v. 490. t. 184. f. 9. 
_A native of Chittagong, Malabar, Amboyna, and other eastern 
- Islands. Flowering time in the former country, the mouth of April. 
Stems as thick as a slender ratan, often ramous, rooting upon 
trees in the most shady forests, round, smooth, and less succulent 
than any other species which I have yet met with, except P. graci- 
lis.— Leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate, entire, smooth ; length’ 
from two to four inches, breadth about an inch.— Petioles most: - 
amply winged, so as to be nearly as broad as the leaves themselves, 
almost as long, equally entire, smooth and marked with similar veins. 
- — Peduncles axillary, solitary, clothed with many small, ovate, brac» 
— tiform scales up to the spathe, where they are completely recurveds: 
3 —Spathe boat-shaped, erect.—Spadix globular, reflex.—Ca/yx, or 
corol, some roundish scales mixed amongst the germs, and of nearly 
the same length, the exact number to each germ uot ascertained.— 
Stamina, about four obovate scales to-each germ, with two pollini- 
ferous pits on the inside under the retuse apex.—Germs many, ob- 
long, one-celled, with one, two, or three ovula attached to the bote 
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