Draco nine

(Chem.) The coloring-matter of the resin called Dragon's -blood. Dracon'tine, a . Pertaining to the Dragon. Dracontium, ( dra - kon's he -um,) n. ( Bot . ) A genus of plants, order Orontiacea, of which one species, D. polyphyllum , a native of Guiana, Surinam, and also of India and Japan, has a powerful action on the nervous system, and is useful in asthma; although at present its chief reputation is the somewhat doubtful one of curing the bite of a snake, to which its mottled stem gives it some resemblance The flower, when it first expands, emits an intolerable stench.