3SS PLANTAE AMERICANA E. 



Stam. Filament a decern, connata, adfcendentia* 

 Ant her ae. - - - 



Pist. Germen oblongum, comprefTum, pedicel- 

 la turn. Stylus fubulatus. 



Per. Legumen fubrotundo-oblongum, planum, 

 membranateum, unilocular, intus ligno- 

 fum. 



XXVIII. From the river Aragua, the people 

 fent a kind of Sarfaparilla or Stnilax, which 

 I had not feen before ufed in Phyfic-: it 

 differed from that fpecies, which is officinal 

 in both the Indies. 

 169. SMILAX. 



Radices plurimae, filiformes, longae, duriuf- 

 culae, foras teretes, glaberrimae abfque fi- 

 bril lis fparfis, verum ' eorum loco Spinulis 

 parvis, brevibus, glabris, fubpungentibus, 

 cortice tenui. Ab altera fpecie Officinali differt 

 figura radicis filiformi, angulata, cortice 

 cralfiore, duro, angulato, rugofo^ fibrillis la- 

 teralibus plurirnis. 



Can Us fcaodens, fufiformis, teres, glaberrimus, 

 aculeatus : aculeis fubulatis, pungentibus, 

 validis, trium quatuorve linearum longitu- 

 dine, inaequaliter fparfis, ad genicula' folio- 

 rum pluribus : ramis fuperioribus fubftriatis, 

 Caulis inferne fubgeniculatus, 



Folia alterna, lanceolata, vel oblongo-lanceo- 

 lata, trinervia, vel cum vrttrmis minoribus 



