Refugium Botanicum.| [dpril, 1868. 
TAB, 14. 
Natural Order ARoIDER. 
Genus AntTHuRIUM, Schott. 
Sect. AcAMPTOPHYLLUM. Caudex abbreviatus, contractus. Lamina cori- 
acea, stricta, oblonga vel lanceolata basi acuta vel obtusa. Costa 
crassa, venis tenuibus, pseudoneuro continuo, impunctata. Pe- 
dunculi longi, stricti. Spadix longus, multiflorus. Ovarii locula- 
menta uniovulata. Bacca colorata. 
A. LANcEoLATUM (Aunth. Enum. iii. p. 71). Petiolis brevibus teretibus 
apice incrassato, foliis lanceolatis basin versus angustatis, apice 
acutatis pseudoneuris marginibus approximatis, pedunculo foltis ex- 
cedente, spatha lanceolata deflexa, spadice sessili cylindrico.— 
Schott, Prodr. p. 479; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 508. Pothos 
lanceolata, Linn. Sp. p. 13873. A. Willdenowti, Kth. and Schott. 
loc. cit. 
A native of the West Indies, figured long ago by Plumier. 
Rootstock erect, two to three inches high, the leaves whorled 
round it, sending out copious adventitious rootlets from the sides. 
Petioles one to three inches long, flat on the face, rounded on the 
back, swollen at the base of the leaf, firm, naked, erect. Leaves 
lanceolate, about a foot long, two inches broad, narrowed from 
the middle downwards, slightly rounded at the base, texture firm, 
the midrib keel-lke, colour dark green, both sides naked, the 
veins immersed, the main ones parallel, united within a short 
distance of the edge. Pedwnele firm, erect, terete, slightly ex- 
ceeding the leaves, purplish brown towards the base.  Spathe 
lanceolate, deflexed, green, slightly enrolled, about three inches 
long by half an inch broad. Spadix sessile, cylindrical, marone- 
coloured, four to five inches long, one-fourth to three-eighths of 
an inch thick. Ovary oblong, two-seeded.—J. G. B. 
I am indebted to the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew for this 
plant, which thrives well in the shade of a damp stove. It should 
be grown in decayed Sphagnum or in turfy peat, where the 
succulent roots can be well supplied with moisture.— W. W. S. 
