1337 



POTHOS'' scandens. 

 Climbing Pothos. 



TETRANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Aroide;e. 



POTHOS. — Spadix undiquc floribus hermaphroditis tecta. Calyx 

 nullus V. tetrasepalus. Stamina definita. Ovarium uniloculare, 1-3-sper- 

 nium ; ovulis ascendentibus v. appensis. Bacca 1-locularis, oligosperma. 

 Herbse v. arbusculse nunc scandentes. 



P. scandens ; epiphyta, radicans, petiolis alatis foHorum longitudine, foliis 



ovato-lanceolatis, spathis axillaribus, spadice subgloboso. 

 Ana-Parua. Rheede Hort. malab. 7, 75. t. 40. 

 Appendix dupio folio. Rumph. amhoin. 5. 490. t. 184. /. 2. 

 Pothos scandens. Linn. sp. pi. 1347. &c. &c. &c. 



A native of various parts of the East Indies, particu- 

 larly Ceylon, and the islands of the Eastern Archipelago : 

 it is not unfrequently seen upon the drawings of the 

 Chinese, when it is usually represented in fruit, with its 

 clusters of deep scarlet berries. 



It is particularly distinguished by its foliaceous petioles; 

 but it is not improbable that more species than one has 

 this character ; and if so, that now represented, in which 

 the petioles are remarkably short, may be difterent from 

 the genuine Cingalese species, in which the petioles are 

 as long as the leaves, or nearly so, and the spadixes 

 larger. The plant from which our drawing was made was 

 imported from China by Mr. Tate, in whose Nursery it 

 was taken in April last. The flowers are most deliciously 

 fragrant. ^>^^ t 



* Potha being the Cingalese name of the species now described, it has 

 been applied to the whole genus. 



