PothoS. TETRANDKIA MONOGYN1A. 435 



perforated on one side, and pinnatifid on the other. Corollets 

 apetalous, tetrandrous. Anthers two-Iobed. 



Elettadi-Maravara. Rheed. Hort. Mai. xii. p. 41. t. 20 

 and 21. 



A very large perennial, sub-parasitical species, so much 

 like DracoJitium 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 Ivy by roots issuing from the 

 joints. 



Leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, smooth, generally per- 

 forated with linear oblong holes on one side, and on the other 

 passing through the margins as in the pinnatifid leaves; their 

 length from twelve to eighteen inches long'. Petioles nearly 

 as long- as the leaves, deeply channelled, wanting the stipule- 

 like processes at the apex, which Miller's figure represents, 

 in which particular this plant differs from that in the first in- 

 stance. Scape short. Spaihe 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 I think about four,) compressed ; apex bifid. Anthers 

 oval, two to each filament. Pistils mixed with the membra- 

 naceous filaments, four-sided, lobed. Style none. Stiyma, a 

 knob on the centre of the lobed germ. 



7. P. pinnata. Linn. sp. pi. ed. Willd. i. 6S6. 

 Sub-parasitic, rooting on trees, the apices of the shoots 

 clothed with fibres. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers terminal. 

 Adpendix laciniata. Rumph. Hort. Amb. v. 489. t. 183. 



Found in forests in the Malay countries, rooting up and 

 running over trees of great size. It is readily distinguished 

 from my decursiva, by the abundance of brown fibres which 

 are found on the young shoots, and the lower part of the 

 petioles. 



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