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Southern and Eastern Africa, the inspissated juice of whose leaves con- 

 stitutes tlie drug Aloes. 



SmiZax officinalis, of South America, and other species, furnish Sarsa- 

 parilla root. 



Fig. 349.— Undergronnd parts of Colchicum avtumncUe at the time of flowering. 

 ^1 front view ; A, old corm ; «', a", scaleB eurrounding flower stalk, 5, section show- 

 ingnew stem, ^', with nidimeutary leaves. /', ^" ,* the very long tubular flowers, 6, ft', 

 spring from near the summit of the new stem, ft/. 'I'he following spring A' will elon- 

 gate and carry the fruit, and leaves ^, ^", above ground ; the lower part of 7t/ will en- 

 large into a corm lilie k', while at ft" a new plant will form as a lateral hud.— After 

 Sachs. 



SeUla marUvma; the sliced hulb of this Mediterranean sand plant is 

 the drug SquilL 



Veratrum album, the White Hellebore of the mountains of Central 



