a medicine by the Cingalese, and sometimes called " Snakeroot." 

 It is by the root that they probably increase in their native re- 

 gions, for in our species {A. Murray}, above mentioned, and in 

 the singular A. pracox, Tab. nostr. 5267, as well as in the pre- 

 sent instance) no pistils are produced. 



The specific name papillosum is probably given by the author 

 on account of the papilliform abortive pistils on the spadix. 



Fig. 1. Much reduced figure of an entire plant. 2. Tuber. 3. Flowers and 

 leaf. 4. Spadix: — natural size. 5 and 6. Anthers, — more or less magnified. 

 7. Abortive papilliform pistils, — magnified. 



