ADDISONIA 53 
(Plate 27) 
ANTHURIUM GRANDIFOLIUM 
Large-leaved Tail-flower 
Native of the West Indies and Venezuela 
Family ARACEAE ARUM Family 
Pothos grandifolia Jacq. Coll. 4: 121. 1790. 
Pothos macrophylla Willd. Sp. Pl. 1: 686. 1797, 
Anthurium grandifolium Kunth, Enum. 3: 77. 1841. 
Anthurium amplum Kunth, Enum. 3: 77. 1841. 
A short-stemmed, succulent, glabrous aroid, the leaves and 
The stem 
coarsely reticulate. The scape is stout, nearly erect, usually shorter 
than the leaves but sometimes nearly as long, and not quite as 
Jacquin records the type locality of the plant as in mountain 
forests near Caracas, Venezuela, whence it was obtained for cultiva- 
tion in Europe prior to 1790. It is abundant in rocky forests of 
Jamaica at middle and higher elevations, growing on rocks, banks, 
or sometimes on trees, where its large leaves form a conspicuous 
element in the vegetation, and it may be seen there in flower 
during the greater part of the year. It also inhabits mountain 
forests of Dominica, and is recorded by Engler (Pflanzenreich 4™*: 
84) as having been collected on St. Thomas in 1881, but it was not 
detected on that island during our expedition there in 1913, the 
forest area having been much reduced. The closely related, if 
