388 PLANTAR AMERICANAE. 



2/4 St AM. Filament a decern, connata, adfcendentia. 



Antherae. - - - 



PisT. Germen oblongum, compreflum, pedicel- 

 iatum. Stylus fubulatus. 



Per. Legumen fubrotundo-oblongum, planum, 

 membranaceum, uniloculare, intus ligno- 

 lum. 

 XXVUI. From the river Aragua^ the people 

 fent a kind of Sarfaparilla or Smilax, which 

 I had not feen before ufed in Phyfic : it 

 differed from that fpecies, which is officinal 

 in botli the Indies. 



169. SMILAX. 



Radices plurimae, nliformes, longae, duriuf- 

 culae, foras teretes, glaberrimae abfque fi- 

 brillis fparfis, verum eornm loco Spimdis 

 parvis, brevibus, glabris, fubpungentibus, 

 cortice tenui. Ab altera ^m^ Officinali differt 

 iigura radicis filiformi, angulata, cortice 

 crafiiore, duro, angulato, rugofo, fibrillis la- 

 teralibus plurimis. 



Caiilis fcandens, fLinformis, teres, glaberrimus, 

 aculeatus : aculeis lubulatis, pnngentibus, 

 validis, trium quatuorve linearum longitu- 

 dine, inaequaliter fparfis, ad genicula folio- 

 rum pluribus : ramis fuperioribus fubllriatis. 

 Caulis inferne fubgeniculatus. 



Folia alterna, lanceolata, vel oblongo-lanceo.- 

 lata, trinervia, vel cum ultimis minoribus 



quin- 



