60 NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S GARDEN. 



fallen. Flowers greenish white, axillary, clustered, with their 

 stalks not longer than those of the leaves, extremely fragrant. 

 When the plant is old and stunted, its branches become spiny ; 

 when vigorous, no spines are formed. 



In the garden it forms a moderate-sized deciduous shrub, and is 

 nearly hardy, living well out of doors when trained against a 

 south wall. It increases by seeds and cutting, but unwillingly. 

 The flowers appear in May and June in great abundance, and 

 being remarkably sweet-scented, give the plant much value 

 either for growing in pots, or for planting against a conservative 

 wall. 



7. Philodendron aubitum.* 



Fouud growing out of a mass of roots of Orchids ; received 

 from Mr. Skinner in 1851. 



A noble-looking climbing plant, with deep green taper stems, 

 emitting great white roots, by which it clings to trees. The leaves 

 are a rich deep green, with a tapering stalk more than two feet 

 long ; the blade is deeply divided into three oblong, wavy, 

 acuminate, diverging-vemed lobes, of which the middle is a foot, 

 and each of the side lobes nine inches long, placed at right angles 

 to the first, so as to form a hastate figure. The spathe is green, 

 about six inches long, crimson within, but only opening for a short 

 time while the anthers are shedding their pollen. 



Although of a quite different genus, this is very similar in foliage 

 to the figure of Syngonium auritum in the Flora Fiuminensis, 

 vol. ix. t. 113. 



It is a climbing stove plant, of robust habit, growing vigorously 

 in a damp atmosphere, with its roots freely exposed, and flowers 

 in December. It is a noble ornament in places where there is 

 room to grow, and where a grandeur of effect is alone required. 



* P. aicritum; foliis hastatis 3-partitis sub-cordatis lucidis siau aperto, 

 lobis oblongis acuminatis undulatis divergenti-venosis, stylo carnoso, 

 6tigmate rnembranaceo radiato, loculis 1-ovulatis (?). — J. L. 



