Calathea. | CXXXIV, SCITAMINEE (BAKER). 327 
Inflorescence on a leaf-bearing stem. 
Spikes single, erect . e S 5 S 5 , 1. C. Manni. 
Spikes two, deflexed S S i i , 2. C. conferta, 
Inflorescence arising from the rhizome, leafless ` . 3. C. rhizantha. 
1. C. Mannii, Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 653. Whole plant 6-8 ft. 
high. Leaves 4 in a tuft at the top of a long stem; petiole broad, 
deeply channelled, 6-8 in. long, with a large cylindrical callus at the 
apex ; blade oblong-cuspidate, moderately firm, glabrous, 6-10 in. long, 
4-5 in. broad, rounded at the erect apex. Spike single, oblong, erect, 
sessile in the centre of the rosette of leaves, 2 in. long; bracts oblong- 
navicular, distichous, about 4 on each side of the spike, much imbricate, 
the lower 14 in. long. Flowers many to a bract, reaching to its Up: 
bracteoles lanceolate. Fruit not seen. 
Upper Guinea. Fernando Po, Mann, 1173 ! 
2. C. conferta, Benth. Gen. Plant. iii. 653. Stem stiffly erect, 
above a foot long, bearing leaves at its apex ; petioles deeply channelled, 
6-9 in. long, with a cylindrical callus at the apex; blade oblong- 
cuspidate, moderately firm, glabrous, 6—12 in. long, 24-4} in. broad, 
rounded at the base. Spikes 2, crowded, sessile or shortly peduncled in 
the centre of the tuft of leaves, deflexed, oblong, 14 in. long ; bracts 
oblong-navicular, much imbricate, the lowest 1 in. long. Flowers 
several to each bract ; bracteoles lanceolate. Sepals lanceolate. Corolla- 
tube cylindrical, as long as the calyx; lobes oblong, shorter than the 
tube. Staminodia rather shorter than the corolla-lobes. Capsule thin, 
containing 1 oblong black seed.—Phrynium textile, Ridley in Journ. 
Bot. 1887, 133. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroon Mountain, 3000 ft., Mann, 2444! Ashanti: Assin- 
Yan-Coomassie, Cummins, 64! 
Lower Guinea. Angola: Golungo Alto ; by streams in the woods of Quisuculo, 
Welwitsch, 6439 ! 
3. C. rhizantha, K. Schumann in Engl. Jahrb. xv. 433. Rhizome 
wide-creeping. Leaves in pairs from the rhizome; petiole 2 ft. long ; 
blade oblong-lanceolate, moderately firm, glabrous, 1 ft. long, 3-4 in. 
broad, deltoid at the base. Spike direct from the rhizome, shortly 
peduncled, 3-4 in. long; rhachis slightly flexuose; internodes } in. 
long ; bracts oblong, navicular, imbricate, 1 in. long. Flowers in pairs, 
shortly pedicellate, whitish, reaching to the tip of the bract; sepals 
lanceolate, } in. long. Fruit unknown. 
Upper Guinea. Cameroons : Bipinde, in forest, Zenker ,1128! 
Lower Guinea. Gaboon: Munda, Sibange Farm, Soyausx, 34! 
12. CANNA, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. iii. 654. 
Sepals 3, equal, free, lanceolate, persistent. Petals 3, equal, lanceo- 
late, united in a tube at the base. Staminodia united in a tube at the 
base, which is adnate to the staminal tube; lobes petaloid; anther 
