Tas. 4646. 
PHRYNIUM sancGuiInevm. 
Sanguineous Phrynium. 
Nat. Ord. CanNacEz.—Monanpria Monoeynia. 
Gen. Char. Calyx triphyllus. Corolle sexpartite Jacinie exteriores subsquales, 
interiores laterales majores, inter se subineequales; labellum minus, bilobum. 
Filamentum breve, in corolle lacinia interiore laterali insertum; anthera termi- 
nalis. Ovarium inferum, triloculare. Ovula in loculis solitaria, basilaria, cam- 
pylotropa. Stylus superne uncinatus; s¢igmate incurvo, subinfundibuliformi. 
Capsula trilocularis, loculicido-trivalvis. Semina in loculis solitaria, uncinata. 
Albumen corneum. Embryo rectus, excentricus, extremitate radiculari umbilicum 
attingente, lectuli embryonalis homotropi erure altero vacuo.—Herbe perennes, 
inter tropicos Asice et Americe indigene ; radice repente, foliis longe petiolatis, 
caule nullo v. apice monophyllo aut folioso, inflorescentia radicali v. terminali, 
spicato-capitata v. laxe capitata aut paniculata. 
PHRYNIUM sanguineum ; caulescens vel scapo radicali aphyllo, foliis oblongis 
brevi-acuminatis subtus purpureis, petiolis brevibus longe vaginantibus 
vaginis coloratis, racemo composito, bracteis bracteolisque ovato-lanceolatis 
complicatis floribusque coccineis. 
Marana sanguinea. Hortul. 
From the collection of Mr. Jackson, of the Kingston Nursery, 
and a very handsome and desirable inmate of the stove it 1s. 
He received it from the Continent, under the name of Maranta 
sanguinea ; but of what author, or where, if anywhere, it is pub- 
lished or described, I have not been able to ascertain. It is 
assuredly rather a Phrynium than a Maranta, and not very 
distantly removed from our Phrynium capitatum, figured in the 
‘Botanical Magazine.’ That species, however, differs in the colour 
of the flowers and the leaves, in the inflorescence, and materially 
in the shape of the blossoms. ‘The plant is handsome in its 
flowerless state, from the rich blood-colour of the long sheaths 
of the petioles, and the deep purple of the underside of the 
leaves; but the inflorescence adds greatly to the beauty, the 
May Ist, 1852. oe 
