In our country we know plants of the Arum family chiefly from the Indian Turnip of our woods, or from the Richardia AEthiopica or calla lily of our greenhouses. In tropical countries they send out rootlets from the stem, and these enter the old or dead bark of trees, and often climb to great heights in this manner, and give a very peculiar character to the forest scenery. We give here a representation of one of these climbing arums, Pothos aurea, which is besides so beautiful in its native country a grand novel ornament of our greenhouses.

Mr. Wm. Bull, of Chelsea, London, who recently introduced it to the notice of cultivators says : "This remarkably distinct Aroid, which is of climbing habit, has been imported from the Solomon Islands. The leaves are strikingly variegated, heart-shaped, and unequal sided, of a dark green, boldly and irregularly marked by bands or fantastic-shaped blotches of creamy yellow, here and there suffused with pale yellowish-green. Being of free growth, and having a boldly marked variegation, it will be an ornamental object in the tropical plant stove, where it will find itself at home in clothing walls and artificial rockwork."

Pothos aurea.

From which it appears that it will attach itself to walls as well as to trees.