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spiculatum Blume in Rumph. I. 121, Kunth En. III. 25. — Dra- 
cunculus minor Blume in Rumphia I. 125 pr. ni — Helicophyl- 
lum Dracunculus Schott Prodr. 115. 
Syria inter Aleppo et Mossul (Olivier); in graminosis inter 
Aleppo et Acutab (Haussknecht in h. Boiss); Persia (Aucher-Eloy 
h. d'Orient n. 2681 in h. DC.) 
B. angustatum; foliorum petiolis emaculatis, laminae segmen- 
tis anguste lineari-lanceolatis, extimis anguste linearibus acutis; 
spathae tubo intus purpurascente, extus pallido, plerumque im- 
maculato, lamina oblongo -lanceolata vel oblonga paullo longiore. 
— A. angustatum Schott Syn. 22, Prodr. 116. — ? Helicophyllum 
Loftusii Schott Prodr. 115. 
Palaestina, inter El Arysch et Gaza frequens (Boissier, Kotschy 
It. Syriac. n. 425); ad Damascum (Kotschy It. Syr. n. 750). 
Planta dubia. 
H. Luph Schott Prodr. 118. (Gronow. Fl. or. p. 116 n. 284) 
aut ad H, Rauwolffi var. Olivieri aut ad H. crassipes per- 
tinet. 
XCI. DRACUNCULUS Schott Melet. I. 17, Syn. 3, Gen. Ar. t. 
22, Prodr. 119, Blume in Rumphia I. 124, Endl. Gen. n. 1679 
pP. 235; Kunth En. III. 29. — Arum Linn. Spec. 1367 et Auto- 
rum. — Anarmodium Schott in Bonpl. IX. (1861) e 368. 
Flores unisexuales nudi. Flores masculi 3—4-andri: Stamina 
hebetato-quadrata brevissima, connectivo tenui inter thecas leviter 
protuberante, post pollinis emissionem loculos multo superante; 
thecis breviter obovoideis, basin non attingentibus, oppositis vel 
suboppositis, poris minutis rotundis in vertice aperientibus, pollen 
in fareiminulis emittentibus.  Genitalia rudimentaria (staminodia) 
brevissime subulata vel apiculiformia. Flores feminei: Ovarium 
oblongum, utrinque attenuatum , uniloculare placenta basilari et 
apicali in eadem cavitate, subelevata, pauci-ovulata; ovula ortho- 
tropa sub - 6 partim pendula, partim erecta funiculo brevi affixa. 
Stylus ovario continuus, breviter conicus, superficie et colore 
distinctus; stigma  hemisphaericum. Bacca obovata, aurantiaco- 
Tübra, unilocularis, oligosperma, Semen sphaeroideo - ovoideum, 
