Pothos. TETRANDRIA MONOGYNITA, "ABS 
~ perforated on one side, and pinnatifid on the other... Corodlets 
apetalous, tetrandrous, _ Anthers two-lobeds) | 65) 7 
Elettadi-Maravara. | Rheed. dort: Mel. xii. ips Al. 20 
and 21. gD 
JA very large ‘saciid ah iparebitieal conten so walbiok 
like Dracontium pertusum, that they may be readily taken 
for the same plant., It is a native of the mountainous parts of 
the coast of Coromandel; running up, and over the highest - 
trees, to which it adheres like vy by roots issuing from the 
joints. 
Leaves sdineisins petiole, cordate, smooth, atiteblyip per- 
forated with linear oblong holes on one side, and on the other 
passing through the margins as in the pinnatifid leaves; their 
Jength from twelve to eighteen inches long. Petioles nearly _ 
as long as the leayes, deeply channelled, wanting the stipule- 
like processes at the apex, which Miller’s figure represents, 
in which particular this plant differs from that iin the first in- 
stance. Scape short. Spathe gibbous, pointed, little longer 
than the spadix, cylindric, obtuse, every where covered with 
the fructifications. Corol none. Filaments intermixed amongst 
the.germs, (the number to each germ cannot be’ determined, 
but..1 think about four,) compressed ; apex bifid. | Anthers 
oval, two to each filament. Pisti/s mixed with the membra- 
naceous filaments, foar-sided, lobed; Style none, Stigma, a 
gage abn io oiecli-essal t5l 
: 3 ayyt 
Ms P, pinnata, Sinn: sp. ph od Willd. i. 636, aaotititia 
ala aceniaies rovting on trees, the apices of, the shoot 
steed with fibres. Leaves pinnatifid, Flowers terminal. 
| Adpendix estonia teens baitens Amb., We: M8916. 180, 
wi fi2. 46 C2 DH Ore 1s eis PEA SF > bet: els Be! 0 PETE 
© Found i ‘in forests in. the. ort a 
tumning over treas'of great size,’ It is readily distinguished 
from my decursiva, by the abundance of brown fibres which 
are found on the young: or and the: lomreipestintobe 
petioles. . 1 PES GRIF BT OF Heo Ty cole 
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