314 ON THE GIGANTIC NEW AROIDEA FROM NICARAGUA. 
long, and 9 lines across, and bears hermaphrodite flowers, the technical 
description of which is given below. 
e plant grows with great rapidity— several inches during a single 
night,—and the flowers emit the odour peculiar to many Aroideæ 
and other dark-coloured flowers. The plant has nothing to do with 
Amorphophallus and kindreds with which it agrees in habit ; it, how- 
ever, is closely allied to Dracontium, both in habit and technical cha- 
racters, but chiefly differs from that genus in having twice as many 
stamens as perigonal segments. It therefore constitutes a new genus, 
which I have great pleasure in dedicating to Mr. George Godwin, 
F.R.S., F. R.H.S,, etc., architect, author of * Another Blow for Life,’ 
etc., one of the founders of the Art Union of London, and Editor of 
the ‘Builder,’ a gentleman who has rendered much willing and substan- 
tial aid to literature, science, and art, and who, by his active support - 
of window-gardening in the metropolis, has spread amongst even the 
humbler classes that taste and love for plants men which, after all, 
the race of botanists would soon become extin 
Additional details will be found in the ‘ 5 panel of Botany,’ Vol. 
VII. p. 278, where also one of the specimens is described, which Mr. 
W. Bull, of King’s Road, Chelsea (to whom the plant was consigned), 
exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society at Kensing- - 
ton. This specimen (leaf only) attained within a few inches the 
dimensions I noted in Nicaragua, and had it not begun to sprout 
during its passage to England, and suffered at tip from pushing against 
the lid of the box in whieh it was planted, there can be no doubt that 
even this year it would have quite equalled them. Mr. W. W. Saunders 
having pointed out the interest attaching to the plant, the Royal Hor- 
tieultural Society recorded its appreciation of it by awarding to this 
novelty an honorary distinction. 
Gopwinia, Seem. (gen. nov. Aroidearum). Spatha inferne convo- 
luta, erecta, apicem versus fornicata, aperta, persistens. Spadix peri- 
gonanthus, stipitatus, spathe limbo multo superatus, cylindricus, 
liber, erectus, densi- ae pluriflorus. Florieuli perigonio 6-sepalo, sepalis 
apicem versus dilatatis, fornicatis, vertice convexulis, in prwfloratione 
irregulariter imbricatis; stamina 12, biseriata, exteriora sepalis al- 
terna, interiora sepalis opposita, filamentis parum compressulis, apice 
repentino in connectivum tenue acuminatum angustatis, pistillo multo 
revioribus, antherz loculis suboppositis, lineari-ellipticis, apiculo 
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