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whose impressions I here describe, whose name neither my 

 friend Bonpland or myself can pronounce without regret, 

 was Don Carlos Montufar (son of the Marquis of Sel- 

 valegre), an excellent young man, whose noble and ardent 

 love of freedom led him a few years later, in the war of 

 independence of the Spanish Colonies, to meet courageously 

 a violent death, of which the dishonour did not fall on 

 him. 



(24) p . 26. " The Pothosform, Aroidea." 



Caladium and Pothos are exclusively forms of the tropical 

 world ; the species of Arum belong more to the temperate 

 zone. Arum italicum, A. dracunculus, and A. tenuifolium, 

 extend to Istria and Friuli. No Pothos has yet been dis- 

 covered in Africa. India has some species of this genus 

 (Pothos scandens and P. pinnata) which are less beautiful 

 in their physiognomy, and less luxuriant in their growth, 

 than the American species. We discovered a beautiful and 

 truly arborescent member of the group of Aroidese (Caladium 

 arboreum) having stems from 16 to 21 English feet high, 

 not far from the convent of Caripe, to the East of Cumanas. 

 A very curious Caladium (Culcasia scandens} has been 

 discovered by Beauvois in the kingdom of Benin. (Palisot 

 de Beauvois, More d'Oware et de Benin, T. i. 1804, p. 4, 

 pi. iii.) In the Pothos-form the parenchyma is sometimes 

 so much extended that the surface of the leaf is interrupted 

 by holes as in Calla pertusa (Kunth), and Dracontium per- 

 tusum (Jacquin), which we collected in the woods round 

 Cumana. The Aroidese first led attention to the remarkable 



