ASA “‘TETRANDRIA MONOGYNTA. *Pothos. 
Peretifiat Stenis rooting. | Leaves’ oblong, entire.” ee 
ers axillary ; florets naked, heptandrous, 
This is the stoutest of these parasitic Jroidee that I have 
met with. It is a native of Prince of Wales’ Island ; from 
thence introduced into the Botanic garden by Mr. W, Rox- 
burgh. Flowering time in Bengal the close of the rains in 
October. It has not yet prod wool ripe seed there, | | 
Stems perennial, creeping on the ground, or upon trees 
and plants; ina very thriving state, of six years’ growth, not 
more than three and four feet long, and about four iches in 
circumference, round, and strongly marked with the circular 
sears of the fallen leaves. Leaves alternate; sub-bifarious, 
petioled, approximate, oblong, cordate, entire, smooth; length 
from one to two feet high, and about two-thirds thereof in 
breadth. Petioles as long as the leaves, channelled, smooth, 
much eularged at the base, and stem- clasping.’ “ Peduncles 
axillary, solitary, very short. ‘Style sub-cylindric, short- 
pointed, opening a little on one side about the time that the 
_ anthers discharge their pollen, smooth on both sides, of a dir- 
ty dull purple colour, length about six inches. Spadix cy- 
lindric, length of the spathes obtuse, every part most closely 
covered with the sessile fructitications ; colour a pale lively 
yellow, beautifully dotted with the dark linear stigmas. Fi- 
laments about seven to each germ, short, broad, and ‘thin. 
Anthers two-lobed. Germs very numerous, er, 
, much flattened, vértically one-celled, with ge 
ly two Weiilas obliquely attached to the-bottoin of thé cell. 
Style none. Stigma a vertical, linear, grooved, dark- colour- 
ed projection on the middle of the truncate germ, as in the last 
Species ; the substance of the germ and apathe also abound in 
short stiff bristles, which Hensal enter the ie causing pain 
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