( 1926) 
MARANTA ZEBRINA, STRIPED-LEAVED 
-Maranta. 
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Class anil Order. 
~  Monanprta Monoeyyra. 
sc Generic Character. 2 
Anthera simplex filamento adnata. Stylus petaliformis. 
Stigma subtrigonum: : eg 
Specific Character. 
Maranta cebrina; acaulis, spica ovata compacta, spathis 
obtusissimis imbricatis multifloris, foliis ellipticis acumi- 
natis striatis. 
continued for several weeks. disiis awed ob TS 
Scape radical, short, involved in the sheathing petiole of a 
young leaf. Flowering spike round-oval, compact ; outer bractes 
very obtuse, with a short acumen, rigid, imbricate: within 
each of these was a number of oblong purple-coloured, 
delicate bractes, involving one another, from amongst which 
the flowers came forth by pairs, proceeding from the bottom 
of the spike gradually to the top; but as the flowers dropt 
off, fresh pairs proceeded from the same bracte, so that the 
bottom series continued to put forth blossoms long after the 
top of the spike began to be in flower ; and the whole number 
of blossoms produced must have been very great. Calyx 
consists 
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