200 CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF AROIDEOLOGY. 
vered at that time (1763) were passed over, partly on account of insuffi- 
cient description, partly from actual oversight. Dracunculus of Tourne- 
fort seems to include not only the best-known species (D. vulgaris), 
but also that from Crete (D. Creticus), perhaps also the Helicodiceros 
crinitus of the Balearic Islands (* In Gymnesiis insulis que Baleares 
vocantur, coctam radicem (Dracunculi minoris) cum melle multo, in con- 
vivis placentarum loco offerunt." Matt. Comm. p. 408; 1570). It 
may even have embraced Helicophyllum (name derived from Cordus) : 
“ Dracontiwm quod Greci vocant Latinis * Dracunculus’ appellatur, 
Arabibus * Luff’ et * Alluff? (Matt. Comm. p. 411); Apov quod autore 
Diosc. apud Syros * Lupha ° dicitur, folia emittit Draeunculi puxporepa 
(Joh. Bauh. Hist. 784; 1651); Dracunculus minor, Arabis et Mauris 
*Luph' (Rauwolff, It. i. c. ix. 115; 1573); Arisarum (et Aris) 
Plinio, lib. xxiv. e. 16, in Egypto nascitur (Matth. Comm. p. 413; 
1570).” The Egyptian plant would therefore be our Arisarum Fes- 
lingii, whilst the Greek Arisaron would be Arisarum Sibthorpii, and the 
Portuguese drisarum Clusii (“ latifolium in collibus Lusitanis frequens, 
-.. inde in Belgiam translata," Clus. Hist. lib. iii. p. 74; 1601); as, 
on the other hand, Arisarum rotundifolium of Boccone (Sic. 26; 1674) 
belongs to the genus 4mórosinia. Under the name of Arum tenuifolium 
is hidden not only the genus and Sicilian species ( Biarum tenuifolium), but 
also the Dalmatian (Biarum Anguillare), the Greek (Biarum Spruneri), 
and perhaps also Cyllenicum Spruneri. The genus Arisena would 
in those days have been found in the ** Din-nan-scho ” of Clyer (Va- 
lentini Histor.; 680), and Arisena ringens, the ** Konjako" of Keempfer 
(Ameen. p. 786; 1712). The genus Ischarum was indicated in the 
Arum Carsaami of Rauwolff (1583): i.e. Calla orientalis, Linn. 
Theriophonum was also discovered ; Klein having gathered it, as Will- 
denow's Herbarium, n. 17729, shows, during the years 1739-42. 
Calyptrocoryne minuta had been described and figured by Rheede in 
Hort. Malab. xi. p. 33, t. 17; 1692. Typhonium Javanicum, although 
published by Rumphius (Amb. v. p. 820, t. 110, f. 2) in 1690, re- 
mained unnoticed until our times. A similar fate befell the genus 
Brachyspatha, which Royen described (“ fol. palmat. . . . spatham spa- 
dice breviorem superantibus ") in Hort. Lugd.-Bat. p. 7, t. 2 (1740), 
which Camelli (Stirp. Ins. Luzon. in Ray, Hist. pl. iii. App. p. 36, 13; 
1704) mentioned as Dracontium, Luz. iii., and which Hermann (Hort. 
Lugd.-Bat. p. 60; 1698) had made known as Arum polyphyllum Dra- 
