Rcfugkm Botanicum.] 
[June, 1871. 
TAB. 268. 
Natural Order Aeoide^. 
Genus Anthurium, Schott. 
A. Gaudichaudianum [Kunth, Enum. iii. 74). Subacaulis, petiolis 
8 — 10 poll, longis teretibus, geniculis brevibus, foliis lanceolatis 
acutis basi cuneatis 16 — 20 poll, longis medio 2 — 3 poll, latis 
coriaceis supra viridibus subtus pallidioribus penninerviis venis 
permultis tenuibus arcuato-patentibus in pseudoneuro deorsum cum 
margine confluente desinentibus, pedunculis viridibus gracilibus 
petiolis duplo excedentibus, spathis lanceolatis reflexis pallide viri- 
dibus 3 poll, longis, pedicellis pollicaribus, spadicibus gracilibus 
cylindricis viridibus spathis sesqui longioribus. — Schott, Prodr, 
p. 459. 
A native of the Province of Santa Catherina, South Brazil; 
discovered by Gaudichaud. 
Scarcely at all caulescent. Petioles eight to ten inches long, 
one-fourth of an inch thick, quite terete, slightly glaucous. 
Geniculum one-fourth to three-eighths of an inch long, moderately 
incrassated, always distinctly bent. Leaves lanceolate, sixteen to 
twenty inches long, two to three inches broad at the middle, 
narrowed about equally to both ends, acute, cuneate at the base, 
bright green above, paler beneath, coriaceous ; the prominent 
midrib bluntly rounded on both faces ; veins very fine, immersed, 
indistinct, slightly arcuate, spreading from the midrib at an 
angle of sixty to seventy degrees ; pseudo-nerve distinct about 
three-quarters of the way down at a distance of two to three 
lines from the edge. Peduncles slender, terete, twice as long as 
the petioles. Spathe pale green, lanceolate, reflexed, three inches 
long. Spadix slender, green, four to five inches long, mounted 
on a slender pedicel an inch long. 
Near A. Harrisii, from which it differs principally by its leaves 
cuneate at the base, green spathe and spadix, and especially by 
the remarkably elongated pedicel. 
Tab. 268. — 1, pair of flowers viewed from above ; 2, single flower 
viewed from the side ; 3, ovary with stamens : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
