Uefugmm Botcmicum.] 
[March, 1871. 
TAB. 257. 
Natural Order Aroide^. 
Tribe Oeontie.^, R. Br. 
Genus Anthurium, ScJiott. 
A. vioLACEUM {Schott, Melet. i. p. 22) . Caule elongate reptante, radi- 
culas firmas copiosas emittente, vaginis confertis scariosis instructo, 
foliis breviter petiolatis oblorigo-laiiceolatis acutis basi cuneatis sub- 
coriaceis viridibus glabris utriuque minute iiigro-punctatis pseudo- 
neuro contiiuio distincto prope uiarginem percursis, pedunculis 
gracilibus 1 — 2 uncialibus, spathis lanceolatis viridibus demura 
deflexis, spadicibus parvis viridibus cyHiidricis conferte 20 — 30- 
floris spathis superantibus, ovarii loculis biovulatis, baccis globosis 
pisiformibus violaceis. — Kunth, Enuvi. iii, p. 68. Pothos violacea, 
Swartz, Prodr. p. 32; Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 55. 
A native of Tropical America, extending from Mexico south- 
ward to Brazil. 
Stems woody, wide-creeping, sending out copious firm rootlets, 
closely clothed with brown scariose fibrous sheaths. Petioles 
firm, naked, an inch to two inches long, subterete on the back, 
channelled down the face, with a swollen node two to three lines 
long at the apex. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, three to six inches 
long, twelve to eighteen lines broad, acute, cuneate at the base, 
subcoriaceous, both sides green, glabrous, copiously marked with 
minute black dots, furnished with a distinct rib running parallel 
with the edge all down at a distance from it of two to three lines. 
Peduncles axillary, slender, an inch to two inches long. Spathe 
lanceolate, fleshy, green, half an inch long, deflexed when the 
spadix is in perfection. Spathe six to eighteen lines long, two 
lines thick, green, cylindrical, with twenty to thirty closely- 
packed flowers. Cells of the ovary biovulate. Berry globose, 
glabrous, bright lilac, two lines thick. 
There is a variety of the same species {A. leucocarpum, Schott. 
Prodr. Aroid. p. 437) with snow-white berries. 
Tab. 257. — 1, portion of leaf ; 2, spathe and spadix ; 3 and 4, a single 
flower viewed from side and top ; 5, pistil and stamens : all magnified. — 
jr. G. B. 
