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of less vigorous climbing habit and those of a tufted or creeping 
manner of growth. A view of the plants here will impress one 
with the ie of many of them as decorative foliage plants. 
Some of the finest of these are in the genus Anthurium, commonly 
known as tail-flowers, on account of the long tail-like spadix of 
many of the species. One of the best of these is A. Andreanum, 
decorative not only for its ample leaves, but for its brightly 
colored spathe also, ranging in color from the deepest blood-red 
to salmon, pink, and scarlet; there is also a form with a pure 
white spathe. A. chelseiense is a striking plant, a hybrid between 
. Andreanum and A. Vetichti, with the spathe of the former and 
the leaves of the latter, somewhat modified. Another species, 
valuable for the coloration of its spathe, but smaller and more 
compact in growth than those already mentioned, is A. Scherzer- 
tanum, the spathe a deep red, and distinguished at once from 
the others by its peculiar coiled spadix 
Of especial value among the nea eee of this genus, on account 
of their beautiful foliage, are the a with the nerves 
bordered with a paler green: A. Warocqueanum, A. magnificum, 
A. grande, and particularly A. eisai a priest of them all, 
with its large deep green velvety lea These are all from the 
Andeaa region in South America, “a ene of many endemic 
forms. Some of the species are extremely ead in fruit. 
One of these is the Costa Rican A. Bakeri, with its spikes of 
bright red berries. Perhaps the most striking of all in this respect 
is A. tetragonum, also of Costa Rica, with its immense pendulous 
cylindric spikes of bright red fully one foot long and two and a 
half inches thick; the individual berries are three quarters of an 
inch long, pone in shap 
Another genus containing many re valuable for their 
decorative folie is Philodendron, readily distinguished from 
of 
Anthurium by its parallel venation, that nthurium being 
tted. rather compact tufted habit, therefore fine for pot 
plants, are the following: P. Afelinoni, from French Guiana, a 
robust plant with magnificent foliage; P. cannaefolium, a Brazil- 
ian species; and P. Glaziovii, its narrowly oblong leaves differing 
from the others in the fine rugosity of the upper surface. One of 
