- ` Monandrian Class usually called Scitaminee. —— 341 
PHRY NIUM. 
Anthera simplex. —Filamentum subulatum, breve. Stylus 
crassus, brevis, antheram versüs inclinatus. Capsula trilocularis. 
Semen unicum, ovatum, leve. i 
From the Phyllodes placentaria of Loureiro, Willdenow has 
constituted this genus, which he has referred to the Hort. Mal. 
v. 11. tab. 34. This figure was considered as the Pontederia ovata 
of Linnæus; but Swartz, in his Obs., p. 123, has observed that it 
is of the Monandrian pm Mecca alied to Thalia, and perhaps 
a species of that genus. - | 
The full description es by Louwteiro enables us to charac- 
terize it as a genus, with tolerable accuracy; and its singular 
mode of inflorescence, from the petiole of the flowering leaf, 
Siibingeips it from all the rest of the Monandrian plants. 
P. , capitatum. Willd. Sp. Pl. v. 1. ‘17. | 
i DE: Rigt Hort. Mal. v. 11. tab. 34. 
MYROSMA. 
7 dace simplex Suin, mems, dae Jengitüdivalite: 
furis" na scens. Capsula —— e, 
polyspeims. - 
— TAL AE. Fig. 4. 
In stamen : and style. this genus | resembles Thalia, from which it 
differs in having a trilocular capsule with many seeds.  Willde- 
now observes that it is likewise. allied to Phrynium, but differs 
also in the fruit. ile 
M. canneformis. Willd. Sp. PL v. 1. 13. boron 
021701 Lie e. vp NL can- 
