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l. Maranta arundinacea, Linn.—Cultivated at Cape Coast; 
Vogel. 
3. Maranta ? brachystachys, Benth. ; culmo basi vaginato apice 
monophyllo ad basin petioli elongati lateraliter florifero, spicis 
brevibus distichis subternis, bacca disperma.— Grand Bassa, 
Cape Palmas, and on the Nun, Vogel ; St. Thomas, (a leaf 
only), Don. 
Culmi crassi, subcompressi, 1-2-pedales, basi vaginis 1-2 arcte 
appressis inclusi. Folium ample ovatum v. oblongum ; pe- 
tiolus 6-9-pollicaris, erectus et eum culmo subcontinuus, basi 
hine breviter fissus inflorescentiam vaginans, dein clausus 
subteres intus cavus, superne breviter solidus; lamina 8-10- 
pollicaris, brevissime acuminata, basi acuta, consistentia et 
venatione Phryniorum. Spica intermedia bipollicaris, laterales 
breviores ; rhachis sepe pubescens ; spiculi sessiles, pluriflorz. 
Bractee imbricatze, interiores exterioribus breviores. Pedicelli 
(1-2-flori?) bracteas subzquantes. Flores desunt. Bacca 
magnitudine Cerasi, rubra ex Vog., abortu bilocularis (loculo 
tertio minimo vacuo). Semina subglobosa, albumine albo 
fere osseo, ; 
I have referred this to Maranta on account of the baccate 
fruit; possibly when the flower is known it may prove to belong 
to some new genus. . 
There is a Maranta cuspidata, published by Roscoe, from 
Sierra Leone, but not in our collections. 3 
l. Phrynium flexuosum, Benth.; culmo foliato, foliis longe 
petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis, racemis gracilibus ramosis, ovario 
villosissimo, sepalis lanceolatis, staminodiis 2 unguiculatis 
latissimis, tertio erecto concavo obtuse subtrilobo, intimis 
erectis angustis apice cucullatis breviter connatis altero hinc 
antherifero.—Maranta flexuosa, Don, in Herb. Soc. Hort. 
Lond.— Sierra Leone, Don. 
Specimina adsunt (culmi summitates ?) pedalia, 1-2-foliata. Pe- 
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tioli basi vaginantes, medio teretes cavi, apice breviter solidi. 
Folia ipsa 6-10-pollicaria, basi obtusa. Racemus semipedalis 
v, longior, basi ramo uno alterove instructus. Bractee dissite, 
distiche pollicares, internodiis paullo longiores, cauli sub- 
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