54 ADDISONIA 
really different, Anthurium cordatum (Willd.) G. Don, occurs on 
St. John and on Tortola, and is recorded as having been found on 
St. Croix. 
A fine colored illustration was published by Jacquin about 1793 
in his Icones Rariores, plate 610; another by Hooker in Botanical 
Magazine, plate 2801, published in 1828, apparently represents A. 
cordatum. ‘The earliest illustrations associated with the species are 
those of Plumier, published in 1693, in his Description des Plantes 
de l’Amérique, on plate 51, figure 1, where it is shown growing on 
a tree, and on plate 63, but that author does not record the locality 
whence the plant figured was obtained; he denominated it ‘‘ Dra- 
contium amplis foliis, cordatus, radice nodosa rubra.” 
The plant which furnished our illustration was obtained by me 
between Clydesdale and Chester Vale, Jamaica, in September, 1906, 
and frequently forms spadices in the conservatories of the New York 
Botanical Garden, but has not ripened much fruit. 
N. L. BRITTron. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE. Fig, 1.—Young spadix — = Fig. 2.—Leaf. 
Both figures are somewhat Sine in size in engravin 
