632 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
A. Wa.uJsEwi (Walujew’s). Leaves broad, heart-shaped, 12 or 14 
inches long, bright reddish crimson when young, afterwards changing 
to a metallic olive-green. 
A. grande, A. magnificum, A. warocqueanum, and A. Veitchii are 
magnificent foliage plants. There is a large collection of species of 
Anthurium at Kew. 
Anthuriums require stove treatment, though very 
high temperatures are unnecessary; what would be 
called medium stove heat—between 60° and 70°—will suit them, combined 
with a humid atmosphere. The best soil in which to pot them is a 
miscellaneous mixture of lumps of fibrous peat, sphagnum moss, turfy 
loam, silver sand, charcoal, and a few broken ecrocks. These should be 
associated in the following proportions: peat 4, sphagnum 1, loam 2, 
silver sand $. To these the charcoal and crocks should be added in 
small quantity, as a kind of seasoning. The drainage should be of the 
best, and the plant should be so inserted that its crown stands on a cone 
of earth about 3 inches above the rim of the pot. Give plenty of water 
at the roots, and frequently syringe. Propagation is most readily 
effected by pulling the crowns carefully apart in January, and separately 
potting them. Hybrids are, of course, raised from seed, but it is a long 
and tedious process. 
Description of Anthurium scherzerianum, the Flamingo Flower. 
te 296. Plant and leaves greatly reduced; flowers reduced one- 
third. Fig. 1 is a flower separated from the spadix; 2, a section of the 
same ; 3, a single stamen. 
Cultivation. 
CAPE POND-WEED 
Natural Order NarapacE&. Genus A ponogeton 
APONOGETON (said to be Celtic, apon, water, and geiton, neighbour: in 
allusion to the habitat). A genus of about twenty species of stove, 
greenhouse, or hardy aquatic herbs, with tuberous roots, oblong or very 
narrow, erect or floating leaves. The flowers are borne in spikes, 
solitary or twin, on a stout scape; the most conspicuous part of the 
inflorescence being a double row of large white, pink, or violet bracts, at 
the base of which are the true flowers. These are quite without calyx 
or corolla, and consist of from six to eighteen stamens surrounding from 
four to six distinct carpels, each with its short curved style and simple 
stigma. At first the entire inflorescence is enclosed in a tapering spathe, 
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