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( 1347.) 
TAMUS ELEPHANTIPES, Famina. Femace Capg: 
Bryony, OR THe EvLEPHANT’s Foor.. 
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Cla/s and Order, 
DiaciA HEXANDRIA.. 
Generic peg 
Mase. Cal. fexpartitus, Cor, 0. - 
Fam. Cal. fexpartitus, © Cor. 0. sige trfidiae Bacca: 
triloc. infera. seme. 3 iS rt 
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TAMUS elephantipes; rhizomate ab humo extante, amplo,, 
hemifphzrico, | folido-carnolo (con/iffentia fere Napi), 
cortice {uberofeincraffata, areolatim rimofa; caule fub- 
lignefcente, volubili, axillariter implexeque ramofo ; 
foliis alternis, cordatis, fubfueculentis (cucumerinis),. 
immerfe fubfeptemnerviis, tranfverfe venulofis ; 5 pe- 
tiolis lamina brevioribus, bafi ftrumofis; racemis ad. 
petiolorum bafin extraaxillaribus, paucifloris, divari- 
catis, pedicellis  unifloris fuperne v a _appreffe: 
uni-tribraéteolatis ; germine nudo, - rmi-pyra-. 
midato, coftato-trigono, faciebus — htacoia ine 
leviter puftulatis ; calyce (corolla mibi) infundibuli-.. 
formi-rotato, quam id bis breviore, firmula, mar-. 
 cefcente, laciniis linearibus, zqualibus, canaliculatis,. 
obtufulis, apice inflexulis ; ftaminibus (in Fam. ¢f- 
Jetis) imo calyci- adnatis 5 ftylo laciniis parum bre-. 
viore, rotundato-triquetro, triftriato, lobulis trinis. 
ftigmatofis recurvatim divergentibus. G. — 
TAMUS elephantipes. L’Heritier. Sert. Angl. 29; (tabula licet 
in libris citata hucufque inedita),~ Hort. Kew. 3. 401. 
Gmnel, Syft. Nat. 2. 570. hips Eh hae Ti, 
Pes elephantis, Vulgo. : 
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From the uncouth maffive 4 appearance swell ‘as colour of the 
reotftock, our plant has ones Jape of Good Bop 
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