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MARICA cserulca 



Blue Norlhiana. 



TRIANDJUA MU.XOGYXLd. 



Nat. ord. Ensat^. Linii. ord. nat, VL Nobis in A/in. of Hot. 1, 2l!>. 



IridES. Jussieii yen. m. Iride.i:. Brown jtnnf. 1.302. 

 MA RICA . Suprd vol. 3. foL 229. 



Div. f. Stigmatibus pelaliformibus coadunatis. Maricae v. Cipurae, Amerirtit 



intratropicct. Nob. supri p. 4, vol, 3. fol. 22l>. 

 M. ccerulea, scapo nuraerosifloro erecto, ?ipath*A non vivipara; fut m Ma- 



rica northiana,) 



A newly observed species from the Brazils ; very near to 

 the beautiful and well-known Maric.\ northiana, but in 

 that the lamina of the larger segments of the corolla is 

 white, blue in this ; in that the flowers are fewer, the 

 flower-stem viviparous and bent backwards to the ground^ 

 where the young plant that is produced within the spathe 

 takes root ; here the stem is quite upright and straight, and 

 the spathe not viviparous. Leaves from four to six feet 

 high. 



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