Refugium Botanicum.] 
[June, 1871. 
TAB. 274. 
Natural Order Aroide^. 
Genus Anthurium, Schott. 
A. EMARGiNATUM (Baker). Caudice brevi decumbente, petiolis 10 — 12 
poll, loiigis facie planis. geniculis modice elongatis facie canalicu- 
latis, foliis obloDgis 9 — 12 poll, longis medio 4 — 6 poll, latis apice 
emarginatis minute apiculatis basi breviter cordatis coriaceis supra 
obscure ^iridibus subtus pauUo pallidioribus, venis primariis 
20 — 30 gracilibus immersis subpatentibus arcuatis in pseudo- 
neurum subcontinuum desinentibus, pedunculis viridibus petiolis 
pauUo brevioribus, spathis linearibus cuspidatis 12 — 15 lin. longis 
viridibus demum reflexis, spadicibus distincte stipitatis viridibus 
gracilibus 2 — 3 poll, longis. 
A native of Tropical America ? 
Caudex very short, decumbent. Petioles ten to twelve inches 
long, two to three lines thick, flattened down the face, rounded 
on the back, dull green. Geniculum half to five-eighths of an 
inch long, channelled down the face. Leaves oblong, nine to 
twelve inches long, four to six inches broad at the middle, 
emarginate at the apex, with a minute horny deciduous apiculus 
at the end of the midrib, cordate at the base, with lobes not more 
than three to four lines deep, coriaceous in texture, dull green 
above, paler beneath ; main veins twenty to thirty, fine, immersed, 
spreading from the midrib at nearly a right angle, arcuate out- 
wards ; pseudo-nerve distinct, continuous or confluent with the 
edge at the base, distant from it three to four lines at the middle 
of the blade. Peduncles green, slightly shorter than the petioles. 
Spathe green, linear, cuspidate, twelve to fifteen lines long, ulti- 
mately reflexed. Spadix distinctly stalked, green, slender, two 
to three inches long. 
Of species with which we are acquainted, nearest to A. lucidum, 
which it resembles closely in the size, texture and venation of the 
leaf, differing from it materially in its shape, in the character of 
the caudex, and in the size and colour of the spathe and spadix. 
Tab. 274. — 1, pair of flowers viewed from above; 2, single flower 
viewed from the side ; 3, ovary with stamens : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
The stem of this species is short and procumbent, producing a 
few ovate leaves on long petioles. I obtained the plant from a 
sale in London, without any locality being given. — W. W. S. 
