Refur/ium Botanicum. ] 
[June, 1871. 
TAB. 278. 
Natural Order Aroide^. 
Genus Anthurium, Schott. 
A. .ERANTHE (HoTt). Caudice brevi assurgente, petiolis 2 — 2i- peclali- 
bus purpureo-viridibus facie planis, geniculis brevibus, foliis cordato- 
ovatis acutis 20 — 24 poll, longis 10—12 poll, latis lobis basalibus 
profundis late rotundatis contiguis papjraceo-coriaceis supra saturate 
viridibus leviter bullatis supra pallidioribus, venis primariis pedatis, 
circiter 6 costalibus ascendentibus, 3 — 4 ex margine basali egre- 
dientibus, pseudo-neuris supra medium laminae cum margine 
anastomosantibus, pedunculis viridibus petiolis subaequantibus, 
spathis viridibus lanceolatis cuspidatis 4 — 5 poll, longis, spadicibus 
viridibus distincte stipitatis spatbis paulo longioribus. 
A native of Tropical America ? 
Caudex assurgent, reaching half a foot long in the specimen 
drawn. Petioles two to two and a half feet long, dull reddish 
green, flat on the face, terete on the back with four raised ribs 
on each side. Genicuhm six to eight lines long, flat on the face. 
Leaves cordate-ovate, reaching twenty to twenty-four inches long, 
ten to twelve inches broad ; the broadly-rounded basal lobes eight 
to nine inches deep, contiguous downwards, an inch and a half to 
two inches apart at the top of the petiole ; texture papj^aceo- 
coriaceous ; upper surface dark green, slightly buUate, lower 
paler ; main veins pedate, about six ascending from the costa, 
three to four arising from the basal margin ; pseuclo -nerve irre- 
gular, confluent with the edge above the middle of the blade. 
Peduncles green, terete, about as long as the petioles. Spaihe 
lanceolate-cuspidate, green, erecto-patent, four to five inches 
long. Spadix green, slender, rather longer than the spathe, 
mounted on a pedicel six to eight lines long. 
Of the species described in Schott's 'Prodromus,' this seems 
to come nearest to A. violascens (p. 521), from which it difi'ers 
materially in the leaf, spathe and spadix. 
Tab. 278. — 1, pair of flowers viewed from above; 2, single flower 
viewed from the side ; 3, ovary with stamens : all magnified. — J. G. B. 
An undescribed species, the origin of which is unknown to me. 
I have grown it some time under the name now given, and it is a 
species well worthy of cultivation. The leaves are few, large, 
thin, somewhat wrinkled above, and of a good green colour. — 
W. W. S. 
