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Uire. Stylus ex ovario sensiin allenualus, elong-afo-conoideus. Sligina 

 (lepressum, bi-tri-quadrilobum, lobis lacerato-fimbriatis, styli veiiicern 

 lateraliter multo siipcrantibus. Ovulnin paiilo sub areos medio 

 cxortum, breviter - fiiniculafum, heniianotropum. Bacca e sepalis 

 grandefactis prominens, stylo persistente coronata. Semen reni- 

 forme compressulum , dorso gibboso-verrucoso-costatum, micro- 

 pyle bilo approximata, fundispeclante. Embryo hippocrepicus, exal- 

 buminosiis. 



Chersydrium Jararaca S. Tiiber depresse-globosiim. Foliiim 

 Vagina lineari, griseo-fusca, minute variegata 4 — 5 poll. longa, pri- 

 miiin obvolutum. Petiolus ex ferrugineo, albido, griseo irregulariler 

 Iransverse-zonatus, 3 — 4 pedes altus, in crura 3 apice divisus, verru- 

 cosus, cruribus irregulariter et anguste decursive pinnatiseclis, se^~ 

 nientis inaequalibus, plus niinusve e lanceolato oblongis, acuminatis, 

 magis minusve approximatis, ex lofo viridibus vel et secus venas 

 albide pietis, interdum foraminulosis. Pedunculus sero post folium 

 (lelapsum e tubere prolatus, vaginis 4 — 5 gradatim longioribus, ferru- 

 gineo-rubiginosis laevibus obvolulus, 4 — 5 poll. longus, ferrugineo- 

 riibiginosus, apice pallidus, punctis striolisque sanguineo-fuscis-con- 

 spersus. Spatha 3-pollicaris, naviculare-aperta, extus griseo-rubigi- 

 nosa, inlus magis purpureo-rubiginosa. Spadix brevissime stipitatus, 

 sesquipollicaris, 8 lineas crassus. Sepala fornicata purpurantia, punclis 

 saturate-purpureis verrucisque albis extus obsessa. Filamenla landeni 

 srpalis duplo longiora, albida. Ovarium albo- verruculosum. Stylus 

 purpureus; albide striolalo-verruculosus. Stigma pallidissime violas- 

 cens. — Para. 



Synonyma. Jarar-ftca-Tcija, vox vernacula ! M a r ti us. 



Draeontium asperum C. Kocli. 



? Aiiiorphophalltis dubius, ex Regel. 



— Walisü Regel. 



— fcneslratus Linden. 

 Vracontinm Surinamense C. Koch. 



Observatio. Folium proteranthium. Inflorescentia post folii 

 secessum sero e tubere prolata. — Nomen (Draeontium^ „asperum,^ 

 quam petioli omnium Dracontioninarum plus minusve asperi, speciem 

 baud (iistinguit. Vernacula vox (colubrinam plantam designans), diu 

 jam nota et in scriptis usitata, forte retinenda. 



Scliönbrunn, den 3. Februar 1865. 



