112 PLANTAt tUM AMËRÎCANARtJM
RadiX Crauà, nodolà, ac tuberolâ, plurimos eraittens latérales fimplices
fibrillas ciliatas.
Folia palmata, lëu potius pedata, in novem Utcunqüe lacinias diftincta
extenlàs, feu inflar palms explicatas, quarum mediæ Jatiffimæ, latérales
decrelêentes, & extimæ minim®, cum appertdiculis, lunt vero
omnes lanceolatæ s idtegerrim®, répand®, glaberrimæ, ac venolæ.
Petioli radicales, longiflimi, nudi, fuperne quafi dehifce'ntes in folii Iffei-
nias delcriptàs.
Spatba minima, radicalis, involvens flofculos albicantes.
DRacmiculus alius huiïiilis, villolùs, flore & früdiu albo. P km. Cat.
pl. Amer. p. $.
A R UM foliis palmatis, foliolis ovato-Tanceolatis, integerrimis, caule
hifpido.
Arunt pofyphyllürd , Dracontlunt & Serpentaria didluta , folio famolà
Pæoniæ inftar, caule alpero. Zeylanicum. Herm. Par, Rat.pr.p. 314.
Arum polyphyllum Dracunculus & Serpentaria dictum Ceylanicum, caule
alpero. Commel. Cut. H. Amfl.p. 38.
jDracontium Zeylanicum ramolo folio, caule ex viridi & flavo variegato
afpero. Herm. Par. Bat. p. 89.
Dracumt/us Zeÿlan. polyphyllus caule afpèro, ex flavo & viridi Colore
variegato. Tourn.infl. p. 160. Tbef. Zeyl. p. go.
Serpentaria polyphylla Indica, caule maeülato alpero. Rreyrt. prodr. 2.
p. 9 J. nova Edit, p. 95.
F I G V R A S E C U N D A.
Radix eft tuber ingens, craflus, rotundus, fcaber, rariores demittens,
crallas ac fimplices fibras.
CaudeX' , erectus, ^ rotundus, variegatus, & exafperatus, feu hilpidus,
qualis in marginali Tabula icdne'eonlpicitur, ’
Folia extenia, lobata, & quail palmare, in navem lacinias ovato-Ianceo-
latas, integerrimas diftindta, quarum media longiflim® & maxims,
laterales lenlim decrelcentes , & extrems quali adpendices lunf-, uti-
in Psonis foliis, "Cofta tamen media & maxims lacinis cum folii pe-
tiolo IcaBra & birluta efle videtur, uti ipler caulis, qualis in dimidia
totius folii parte adparet in Tabula.
Spatha llorem involvcns crafla , coriacea;',' glabra , linuola & acuminata
A , Spadix, vera eretftus, fpicatus B , flores malculinos iff fuhi-
ma , femininos in inferiore parte gerens, inter quo's intercedtint
fquams imbricat® ,. qu® in aliis Art Ipeciebus lapius filametffdfe
t font. ||