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MEMOIRS OF THE NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



| VOL. 10 



Type: the original description in Hogg's Gard. Yearbook [Int. Code Bot. 

 Nomenel. (1956) Art. 10, note]. (The species is more adequately described and 

 illustrated in Gard. Chron. II. 3: 524-525. /. 109. 1875.) Known only in cultiva- 

 tion. 



CULT.: Hort. Bull, 21 Nov 1878, X. E. Brown (holotype of 8. candid urn N. E. Br.), and 

 Hort. W. Bull, 20 Apr 1879 (K) ; Hort. Kew, ex Hort. Williams, 1(1 Aug 1878 teste N. E. 

 Brown (K) ; Hort. W. Bull, 7 Mai 1881, X. E. Brown with Engler kkd (K) ; Engler JJD 

 (BM, G-DEL, US); "ex herb. J. Bauman" (S) ; 29-3-1939 (L) ; fin pots Bot. Gard. 

 Singapore," Sep 1918, C. X. Furtado (BO, NY) ; etc. 



Though unable to verify its priority, T have accepted the description in 

 Hogg 's Year-book as the first valid publication of the epithet patinii, thus follow- 

 ing Engler 's treatment (Pflanzenreich 4? 8 * : 130, 131. 1908) and others since. 

 Masters, in the same year, published a good illustration and description of this 

 species, and stated that it had been introduced to Mr William's nursery from 

 Colombia. Neither Hogg nor Masters made any mention of the other's publica- 

 tion. 



The same species was described as new under the name Anthnrium candidum 

 by Mr W. Bull also in 1875. He attributed its introduction from Colombia to 

 his own collector, Mr. Shuttlewofth. Unfortunately, no specimen collected in 

 Colombia by either Patin or Shuttleworth appears to have been preserved, and 

 research has not revealed the exact locality where they first collected the species. 

 Andre (111. Hbrtic. 27: 135, 136. 1880) wrote that 8. patinii was discovered 

 in the province of Antioquia (New Granada) and was sent to Europe through the 

 efforts of M. Patin in 1874. 



A specimen preserved at Kew was taken "from the type plant" (fide N. E. 

 Brown) at Hort. Williams. This specimen agrees perfectly with a much culti- 

 vated plant in American collections today. However, I have been unable to refer 

 to this species any specimens collected from the wild, and thus the application of 

 the name is here restricted to the material in cultivation which closely matches 

 the initial description. Though suggestive of other Andean species, 8. patijiii 

 is a distinct taxon. That this is a. naturally occurring species is corroborated by 

 a note accompanying Bull's description of Anthurium candidum. Bull's Cata- 

 logue (3. 1875), states that the plant was introduced to Mr. Bull by one "Mr. 

 ShuttleAvorth, from the United States of Colombia" who described "the difficul- 

 ties under which this remarkable plant was obtained, the climbing of a steep 

 rock, owing to the rarified atmosphere being almost beyond his physical powers." 

 One may conclude that 8. patinii is a species of rugged, mountainous terrain. If 

 so, the absence of collections from the wild is not surprising, in veiw of the near- 

 total lack of modern collections of Spathiphyllum from Andean Colombia. 



In 1878, N. E. Brown (Gard. Chron. II. 10: 783) took up the name 8. 

 candidum for a plant which varied but slightly from the typical 8. patinii. I 

 have followed Engler and others in reducing 8. candidum to synonymy under 

 this species. 



The leaf -blade of 8. patinii is wider and has more spreading primary lateral 

 veins than 8. quindiuense. The. close relationship of 8. patinii to, 8. tenerum is 

 clear, but the latter has wide-spreading primary lateral veins, its leaf-blade is 

 proportionally broader, and the base of the blade is less acute or even obtuse. 



18. S. sipapoanum Bunting, sp. nov. Figure 5. 



Foliorum lamina anguste elliptico-oblonga, 16-17.5 cm longa et 2-2.3 cm 

 lata, ad apicem acuminata, ad basim acuta, venis primariis 4-5-jugatis angulo 

 ca. 25°; petiolus 10.5-12 cm longus, ad 73 vaginatus; geniculum 0.9-1.5 cm 



