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bus involuta, basi etiam convoluta, pallide rosea, 
lineis saturationibus pulcherrime picta. 
Spadia:^ basi, ubi flores inserti, cylindraceiis, 
apice magnus (duas uncias latus) ovato-glo- 
bosus, obliquus, carnosus, extus rugosus, in- 
tense roseus, intus spongeosus, albus. 
Antherce numerosae, purpurese, sessiles, apice 
loculis duobus horizontalibus dehiscentes, pur- 
purescentes. 
Pistilla sub antheras inserta, pauciora. Ger- 
men globosum, viride. Stylus breviusculus, pur- 
pureus. Stigma peltatum. 
Fig, 1. Plant, natural size : — all below the 
line indicated by the letters a — h is subterra- 
neous. Fig. Front view of the spatha. 
Fig. S. Spadix removed from the spatha. c, 
the circle of anthers, d. the circle of pistils. Fig. 
4. Section of the spadix. Fig. 5. Anther. Fig, 
6. Pistil, of which the germen is cut through 
vertically. The 5th and 6th figures are magni- 
fied. 
Of this singular and beautiful plant I can find 
no description, yet it appears to be not uncom- 
mon in Senegal. The Jolofs, particularly in the 
country of Cayor, eat the root, when other and 
better kinds of nourishment fail them. They 
dry the root and boil it, thus employing heat 
to extract that poisonous juice with which all 
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