Tap. 7937. 
LYSICHITUM camrscHartcense. 
Native of N.E. Asia and N.W. America, 
: Nat. Ord. Arnoipra%.—Tribe OrontTIE&. 
Genus Lysicuitum, Schott; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 994.) — 
Lysicnitum camtschatcense; herba paludosa, robusta, rbizomate repente, 
foliis amplis 1-3 ped. longis sessilibus v. crasse petiolatis oblongo-ovatis 
v. -lanceolatis acutis obtusisve crasse coriaceis lete viridilus petiolo lato 
concavo, nervis gracilibus arcuatis, pedunculo crassitie digiti minoris, 
eataphyllis paucis primum involutis albis, spatha 4-6 poll. longa cymbi- 
formi acuta membranacea flavida basi in pedunculum longe producta 
spadicem juniorem totum includente, demum stipitem ejus valde 
elongatum inferne involvente denique decidua, spadice longe stipitata 
2-3 poll. longa $-? poll. diam. cylindracea apice rotundata densiflora 
sursum florente tloribus omnibus fertilibus densissimis, perianthii seg- 
mentis 4 inaéqualibus crassissimis truncatis oblongis trigonisve apice 
fornicatis ovarium velantibus, staminibus 4 inzqualibus, filamentis late 
complanatis, antheris minutis exsertis didymis, ovario conico-ovoideo 
viridi basi constricto apice attenuato, stigmate sessili capitellato flavo, 
loculis 2 basilaribus interdum confluentibus 1-2-ovulatis, baccis 2-locu- 
laribus dispermis, seminibus exalbuminosis, embryone macropodo.— _ 
J. D. Hi. 
L. camtschatcense, Schott in Cesterr. Bot. Wochenbl. vol. vii. (1857), p. 62; 
Mig. Ann. Mus. Ingd.-Bat. vol. i. p. 285, ii. p. 202. Engl.in DO. Monogr. 
Phaner, vol. ii. p. 210. Macoun, Cat. Canad. Pl. vol. ii. p,73. Franch. & 
Savat. Enum. Pl, Jap. vol. ii. p.9. Honzo Zufu, vol. xxiv. t.18. Somoku , 
Zusetsu, vol. xix. t. 10 (Japonice 13). ; 
LL. camtschaticum, Schott, Gen. Aroid. t. 91. 
LL. kamtechatcensis, 8S. Wats. Bot. Californ. vol. ii. pp. 187, 484. 
LL. japonicum, Schott e« Mig. Cat. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p.96. Franch. & 
"Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. ii. p. 9. : 
Symplocarpus kamtschaticus, Bong.in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, vol. ii. 
(1838), p. 169; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. vol. iv. p. 12 (Simplocarpus). 
S. camtschaticus, Kunth, Hnum. Pl. iii. p 84. 
Arctiodracon japonicum, A. Gray in Mem, Amer. Acad, ser. 2, vol. vi. 
(1858-9), p. 408. 
Pothos camtschaticus, Spreng. Syst. Veg. vol iii. p. 767. 
Dracontium foliis lanceolatis, Linn. Amen. Acad. vol. ii. p. 362. 
Dracontiam camtschatcense, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 968. 
Lysichitum, or Lysichiton, which is better, and as Schott 
himself wrote it in a note in the place where he published 
the description, is a monotypic genus of remarkable dis- 
tribution. In Asia it inhabits Eastern Siberia, Kamt- 
schatka, Saghalien, and the Kurile Islands, southward to 
Central Japan; and in America it ranges from the 
Feprvuary Ist, 1904, 
