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MARANTA ANGUSTIFOLIA. NARROW-LEAVED 
MARANTA. 
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Class and Order. 
Monanpria Monoaynta. 
Generic Character. 
Anthera simplex filamento adnata: Stylus petaliformis. 
Stigma subtrigonum. Sem. |. : oe 
Specific Charactér and Synonyms. 
Maranta angustifolia; culmo nodoso, foliis lanceolatis 
basi angustatis, panicula flexuosa, bracteis internis 
coloratis, calycibus ovatis. ; 
Maranta graminifolia. Ruiz et Pavon, m herbario Lam- 
berti. — et 
This undescribed species of Maranta, which flowered in . 
the Botanic garden, belonging to the iA of Apothe- 
caries, at Chelsea, in July 1822, was raised from seeds 
received from Trinidad. ‘Though not mentioned in the 
Flora Peruviana of Ruiz and Pavon, a specimen of the 
same species collected in Peru, by these celebrated Bota- 
nists, and ticketed by them with the name of gramini/olia, 
is preserved in the Lambertian Herbarium; but as the 
leaves can hardly be compared with those of European 
grasses, we have preferred calling it angustifolia. 
Maranta angustifolia is a much smaller plant than 
arundinacea; the swelled joints of the culm are more 
evident, being not concealed by the sheaths of the foot- 
stalks; the leaves are not only much smaller, but are 
narrowed at the base, which in arundinacea are rounded, 
and often cordate; the flowers grow in a lax, zig-zag 
panicle; the inner valve of the spathe or bracte is, like 
the corolla, of a pale blue colour, the calycine leaflets are 
oval, not, as in arundinacea, lanceolate. a 
Both species, in our climate, require to be cultivated in 
e stove. Communicated by Mr. ANDERSON. ins 
