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Dracontium (About half-a-dozen species all)

About half-a-dozen species, all tropical American, are here included. To those described on pp. 491-2, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

D. foecundum (fertile). fl., spathe dull brown outside, dark vinous-purple within, 5in. high, erect, narrowly cylindric-oblong; spadix bluish-brown, 1 3/4in. high, sub-sessile, erect, cylindric, obtuse. March. l. solitary, produced after the flower, 4ft. to 5ft. in diameter, horizontal, tripartite, each segment bearing several pairs of drooping leaflets; petiole 6ft. high. Tubers surrounded by a profusion of acute bulbils, rising above the ground. British Cuiana, 1880. (B. M. 6808.)