Refugium Botanicurn.] 
[June, 1871. 
TAB. 269. 
Natural Order Aroide^. 
Genus Anthurium, Schott, 
A. DoMBEYANUM {Bvong. in Scuott, Prodr. Aroid. p. 477). Caudice 
brevi decumbente, petiolis 1^—3 poll, longis, geniculis brevibus, 
foliis oblanceolato-spatlmlatis 10 — 12 poll, longis supra medium 
4|- — 5 poll, latis basi pauUo rotundatis subcoriaceis supra saturate 
viridibus subtus pallidioribus, venis primariis 12 — 15 erecto-paten- 
tibus in pseudoneuro irregular! interdum duplici desinentibus, 
pedunculis subpedalibus, spathis lanceolatis patentibus viridibus 
2— 2i poll, longis basi valde decurrentibus, spadicibus viridibus 
vix stipitatis spathis paulo excedentibus. 
Our specimen was procured from Linden, who obtained it from 
the forests of the Rio Branco, one of the northern branches of 
the Amazon about half-way up the river. 
Caudex short, decumbent. Petioles erect, an inch and a half 
to two inches long, greenish, slightly mottled with gray, one- 
fourth of an inch thick. Geniculum three to four lines long, not 
much swollen. Leaves oblanceolate-spathulate, a foot long, four 
and a half to five inches broad three-quarters of the way up, 
acute, slightly rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, bright dark 
green above, paler below ; main veins twelve to fifteen, erecto- 
patent ; 'pseudo-nerve irregular, sometimes as if doubled. Peduncle 
green, erect, slender, terete, reaching a foot long. Scathe lanceo- 
late, green, ultimately patent, two to two and a half inches long, 
conspicuously decurrent at the base. Spadix green, stout, 
scarcely stalked, two and a half to three inches long. 
Our only ground for calling this A. Domheyanum is that it 
agrees fairly with Schott' s original description of the plant so 
called, which was taken from a drawing of a specimen from Peru 
in the Paris Museum. 
Tab. 269. — 1, pair of flowers viewed from above; 2, a single flower 
opened ; 3, stamens ; 4, ovary ; 5, horizontal section of ovary : all mag- 
nified.-^ J. G. B. 
A dwarf free-flowering species, with the peduncle rigid and 
erect. The leaves are few in number, broad and bright green. 
A rare and interesting species, seldom seen in collections of 
growing plants. I received it from Mons. Linden, of Brussels. 
—w, w. s. 
