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176, POTHOS podojrftyllus. Schlechtendahl & Charnisso in Linnsea, vol. 6. 

 p. 22. 



When Mr. Hartweg landed in Mexico, on his mission 

 from the Horticultural Society, he had the good fortune to 

 make the acquantance of Mr. Lavater, a gentleman resident 

 near Vera Cruz, who hospitably entertained him. At his 

 residence, a few miles from that sea port, a rich harvest of 

 novelties awaited our young traveller ; and among many 

 oilier things the rare Berberis tenuifolia, Cyrtocldlum macu- 

 la turn, Brasavola glauca, all at that time new, rewarded his 

 researches. Since that time a case of living plants has been 

 received from Mr. Lavater, among which is this fine Pothos ; 

 whose leaves have stalks a foot and more in length, and a 

 circular blade more than a foot in diameter, divided into 

 seven deep pinnatifid or entire acuminate lobes, the lateral 

 of which are three-parted. They are of a firm texture, of a 

 sea-green colour, and but little marked by other veins than 

 the midrib. The flower-stalk is like the leaf-stalks, and of 

 the same length, but is compressed and bluntly two-edged 

 instead of being channelled along one side. The spadix is 

 dull olive green, about five inches long, and slightly tapering 

 to the point ; while the spathe is three times as short, oblong, 

 green, and turned downwards. It appears to be the species 

 above quoted, which was found by Deppe and Schiede in 

 shady woods near the Hacienda de la Laguna, in Mexico ; 

 differing in no important circumstance, unless in the leaves 

 being rather less frequently divided. 



1/7. CLERODENDRON splendens. George Don in Jamieson's Journal, 

 vol. 11. p. 349. 



Of the many beautiful climbing plants inhabiting the woods 

 of Sierra Leone, and of which so few are yet in cultivation, 

 this is one of the best. Its foliage is of a deep rich green, 

 and the flowers of a colour not inferior to that of the Euphor- 

 bia splendens. It will be a stove plant, but one of the very 

 handsomest in the country. It has flowered with Mr. Knight, 

 at his Nursery in the King's Road, where it had been sent 

 by Mr. Whitfield. According to the author of the name, it 

 grows on the mountains of the Colony. 



