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ARUM tenuifolium. 
Grass-leaved Italian Arum. 
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MONCECIA POLYANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ARoIDER. Jussieu gen. 23. Div. I. Spadix spath involutus. 
AROIDER (includentes tàm Typhas quàm Aroideas Jussieuii). 
Brown prod. 1. 333. Sect. I. Flores declines; Perianthio (Calyce) nullo. 
Aroidee vere. 
ARUM. Supra fol. 450. 
Div. Acaulia, foliis simplicibus. 
A. tenuifolium, acaule; foliis (tardioribus scapo) angasto-lanceolatis, spatha 
subrecurva, spadice longo vermiformi acuto declinato. Lamarck eneyc. 3. 
10. n. 10, ‘ 
Arum tenuifolium. Lian. sp. pl. ed. 2. 2.1970. . Mill. dict. ed. 6. n. 5. 
‘Willd. sp. pl. 4. 486. enum. 2. 086; (exöluso passim synon. Gron. orient. 
ad ARUM gramineum. Russell alepp. 9. 264. pertinente). Hort. Kew. 
ed. 2. 5. 309. 
Arisarum angustifolium Omithogali lutei facie. Zobel adv. 260, 261. 
Arisarum angustifolium. Clws. hist, 2. 74. — . 
Folia tardiora flore, radicalia, angusta, lanceolata, graminis vel Scor- 
zonere pen? instar, glabra viridia 7-6-uncies longa, deorsùm subattenuata, 
basi equitantia. Caulis brevissimus vagin membrañaceó inclusus: spatha 
elongata, acuminata, recuroula: spadix longis, gracilis, vermiformis, acutus, 
rubens, extra spatham inclinatus. . loe. eit. (ex gall. vers. 
Native of Italy; and said to have been cultivated here 
in 1570; though we had never met with a plant of it till last 
summer, when an imported one, from Italy, flowered inthe 
greenhouse of Mr. Griffin at South Lambeth, where the 
drawing was made. . 
The species has been inserted in some of the Floras of 
France, as native of that country; but in the sixth Volume 
or Supplement of the Flore Frangoise by M. de Candolle, 
we are told it is not a plant of that country, and has been 
enumerated as such through mistake. . 
- "The Arum, generally adduced for this species from the 
“ Flora Orientalis" (a work compiled by Gronovius from 
the Herbarium collected in the Levant by Rauwolf) is very 
different from tenuifolium, and belongs to Arum gramineum 
of Dr. Russell's Natural History of Aleppo, as is proved by 
samples preserved in the Banksian Herbarium. In that the 
spathe is far broader and shorter, the spadix upright and 
