Symplocarpus foetida. 125 
» Germ immersed, l-seeded. Seed naked, large, round, inclosed in the common receptacle. Cor 
culum small, involute, erect, umbilicately attached to a large, ate carneous perisperm.” Nuttall. 
Classis Tetrandria, Ordo Monogynia. Lin. Syst. 
pe : Pe Se ees 
Dracoytium fétidum.. Willd. et Lin. 
D. foliis subrotundis concavis.. Cold. Noveb. Kalm. it. et Gron. Virg. 14%. 
D. foetidum, foliis subrotundis. Gmelin. Syst. 
Calla aquatilis, odore allii vehemente predita. Gron. Virg. 186. 
Arum Americanum betz folio. Catesb. Car. 
Pothos Putorii. Barton’s Fl. Virg. Gron. 
Pothos foetida, foliis cordatis, spadice subgloboso. Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 1. vol. 3, p. 319. 
Pharm. Dracontii Radix. 
Qual. Acris, alliacea, nauseosa. 
Vis. Incidens, calefaciens, expectorans. 
a: fol. contrita ad vulnera recentia et ulcera. Tussis consumptiva. Scorbutus ét alii morbi 
.Padix ‘Ari officin. utilis. ~ Colden. ial Mat. Med." 
4 ge Bi" bees ed 
| DESCRIPTIO UBERIOR... . © 
Planta feetidissima acaulis, et sub floratione aphylla, seu eo tempore folia vix inchoans. Radix perennis 
> sistens radicularam verticillarum. Radiculz cylindrite longz, albo et fusco annulato-variegatz. 
Folia quz post florationem crescunt, magna cordato-ovata sunt, subtus venis conspicue prominenti- 
gael” ; es quasi exaratis. Costa succulenta infra prominens. In basi foliarum sunt bractex spathu- 
linguiformes, glaucz. Spatha ovata, basi auriculato-attenuata, et = obliquo-acuminata, de- 
pressa, cucullata, prorsus purpureo, flavo, +t viride p pedunculatus simplex sub-globo- 
sus; floribus adnatis. Petala nulla. Calix. partitus, profunde divisus et F peretens, segmentibus 
eucullatis, apice compressis et emarginatis. Stamina 4; filamentis subulatis persistentibus. An- 
there exsertz, breves, oblongo-oyales, duarum loculorum sistens. Stylus crassus, quadran- 
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