Pseudodracontium
(from pseudo, false, and Dracontium; in allusion to its resemblance to that plant). ORD. Aroideae (Araceae). A genus comprising only a couple of species of stove, tuberous herbs, natives of Cochin China. Male flowers scattered; females densely crowded; spathe erect, boat-shaped, acute, shortly convolute at base, opening above; spadix shorter than the spathe, thick, sessile; peduncle much shorter than the petiole. Leaves trisected, the segments cut or pinnate; pinnae lanceolate, acuminate, the upper ones confluent and decurrent, the lower ones remote and sessile; petioles elongated, thick, sheathing at base. One species has been introduced; it requires culture similar to Caladium (which see).
P. Lacourii (Lacour's). This is the correct name of the plant described in this work as Amorphophallus Lacouri.