A RUM TRIPHYL'LUM. 
THREE-LEAVED ARUM. 
Order. 
rOLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ARACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
9 inches. 
Jane. 
Perennial. 
in 1664. 
No. 624. 
The word Arum, or as our old herbalists have it 
from the original, Aron, is supposed to have been 
transmitted to us through the Greeks, from the 
Egyptians, who applied it to one of the species 
known to them — the Arum colocasia. 
By its beautifully striped spathe this plant is ren- 
dered more attractive than the greater part of the 
hardy species belonging to this curious genus. 
This peculiarity obtained for it the name of zebra- 
flowered, by which it is now sometimes known. 
The whole of the Arums are more or less acrid, 
and some are reckoned even poisonous. It is stated 
by Decandolle that milk in which the root of our 
present acrid plant, the Arum triphyllum, has been 
boiled, has been known to cure consumption. Its 
properties appear to be somewhat analogous to 
those of our native species — the Arum maculatum, 
which has for ages, been used medicinally in vari- 
ous disorders, and also as food. Its fresh root when 
tasted, seems at first insipid, but shortly afterwards 
evinces its actual quality, by producing a most 
disagreeable pungency and pricking sensation on the 
tongue, which will continue for several hours, un- 
Class. 
MONCECIA. 
