which is now much elongated, purple, semipellucid, depressed at the 
top, and marked with a small scar, the remains of the stigma ; 2-celled, 
4-seeded. Seeds (as far as I can judge) pendent, attached to a large 
pulpy central receptacle, oblong, convex on one side, nearly plane on the 
other. Integument crustaceous, but covered with a soft white coat, 
spotted in lines minutely with red. Albumen fleshy. Embryo oblong, 
white, thickened and greenish at one extremity. 
The genus Pothos seems to be almost wholly confined to 
the warmer parts of South America. The present species is 
an inhabitant of the West Indian Islands ; and if the refe- 
rence to AuBLET, given in Willdenow, be correct, of Guia- 
na also. Brown met with it in Jamaica, in the woods about 
St Ann's Bay, where, he says, it sticks very close to the 
trunks of whatever trees it grows upon. Swartz gathered it 
upon the high mountains of the same country, and the celebra- 
ted travellers MM. Humboldt and Bonpland, between 
Carthagena de Indias and Mahates, in New Granada, flower- 
ing in October. 
I must observe, however, that the figure in the Nova Genera 
et Species Plantarum represents both the leaf-stalk and the pe- 
tioles of the spadix as considerably longer than in our cultiva- 
ted specimen. 
In our stoves, the Pothos violacea grows readily in com- 
mon soil, with a piece of stick set up in the pot, for its roots 
to strike upon, as in the parasitic and orchideous plants. It 
bears flowers and ripe fruit at the same time during the great- 
er part of the year ; the former are inconspicuous, from their 
greenish color and diminutive size, the latter remarkable for 
their delicate semitransparent and purple hue. 
Fig. 1. Portion of a plant, nat. size. Fig. 2. Portion of the spadix. Fig. S. 
Single flower. Fig. 4. Leaflet of the perianth, with a stamen. Fig. 5. 
Stamen. Fig. 6. Germen. Fig. 7. Berry. Fig, 8. Section of a Berry. 
Fig. 9. Seed. Fig. 10. Section of a seed. — All more or less magnified. 
