
          And [Answered] by Dr Woodhouse


 Prof. [Professor] John Torry, M.D. New York


 Dear Sir,


 Please to let me know by Dr Woodhouse something
 about his very strange plant of the Araceae family, which
 Dr W. [Woodhouse] brought form N. [New] Mexico.


 At first sight, from the appendages, [crossed out: illegible] placed at
 the base of the spadix and looking like ligulete corolloa
 of Corgrubiferous flowers, I mistook it for a Lepachys
 of a Dracopis; But I soon perceived my mistake by
 closer inspection.


 I have perused the characters of all the spadiceae
 of Eudlicher, withott finding any genus to agree with it
 The only one having some kind of affinity with it is the
 genus Spathiphyllum which belongs to the tribe Broutiaceae.
 The small rounded and clasping leaf, placed a few inches
 below the saedix, seems to me, originally to have plaid
 the part of a spathe, surrounding at once the embryo
 spadix and the 2 or 3 petiolute leaves that arise from
 its center.


 The bad condition of my eyes and the impossibility of using
 strong magnifying glasses have prevented me to distinguish
        