The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Philodendron (To the species described on pp)

Philodendron
Philodendron

To the species described on pp. 96-8, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. Andreanum (Andre's). l. pendulous, 2ft. to 3ft. long, 10in. broad, elongate-cordate-lanceolate, acute, dark, shining green, with coppery reflections. Columbia, 1886. A fine climber. See Fig. 56, p. 587, for which we are indebted to Messrs. James Veitch and Sons. (R. H. 1886, p. 36.) P. nobile (noble). fl. axillary; tube of the spathe rosy-crimson both outside and within; lamina white within, the outside spotted with deep rose. l. obovate-lanceolate, acute. Stem climbing. South America, 1885. This resembles P. crassinervium, but is larger.

P. squamiferum (scale-bearing). fl., spathe 3 1/2in. to 4in. long, the tube reddish-purple, the lamina pale greenish-yellow and reddish-purple outside, whitish-yellow within; spadix oblique, sessile, 3in. long; peduncles twin, reddish, 3in. long. l. 6in. to 12in. long, 5in. to 10in. broad, pinnatifidly five-lobed; young ones entire or three-lobed; petioles 6in. to 12in. long, 1/4in. thick, terete, reddish, densely bristly. Stem smooth. Brazil and Guiana, 1886. (I. H. 1886, 590.)

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