3 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Phrynium. — 
Roót perennial, tuberous like ginger, with long, fleshy fibres from l 
the crown, and various other parts.—Stem none.— Leaces radical, 4 
long-petioled, oblong, entire, smooth on both sides; length from 6 H 
to 18 inches, and broad in proportion. Veins numerous, fine and pa~ 
rallel.— Petioles longer than the leaves, slender, round, smooth, tap- ^ 
era little from the base, and are there expanded into a sheath for those d 
immediately within; such as are destined to bear the flowers have a E 
joint alittle above the middle; immediately above this joint there is a i 
swelling, which in due time is forced open on the inside by the grow- i 
ing flowers exactly as in our Indian species of Pontederia. Ithow- i 
ever sometimes appears, and even in the same plant, that some of the I 
petioles, now scapes, extendno further than the flowers.— Flowers nu- t 
merous, collected into a pretty large, sessile head, which bursts from F 
the anterior margin of the jointed petioles, small, and nearly hid i 
among the large bractes ; when they first expand in the morning rose- H 
colour'd, gradually becoming purple by the evening.— Bracfes, ca- — 
lyx of Louriero’s Phyllodes, several, collecting the small sessile lowers _ 
into several fasciculi of two, three, or four pair, each of which ex- _ 
pandin succession. The exterior one of each fascicle is large, sub- _ 
cylindric, of a firm texture, and reddish colour; apices truncate, — 
with scariose, incurved margin; the rest are smaller, and more or less _ 
pointed.—Ca/yz superior, three-leaved ; leaflets ensiform, length of 
the tube of the corol hairy about the points.— Corol one-petalled. 
Tube fannel-shaped, scarcely perforated. Border double; exterior of — 
three, equal, purple, spatulate, recurvate segments; interior more 
elevated on a continuation of the tube, and consists of five, very un- H 
equal segments ; the exterior two larger, round, curled, and ofa pale 
rose colour ; the innermost one small, and running down the side of 
the filament like a wing.— Filament solitary, short, inserted on the 
mouth of the tube close by the free, curved end of the style. Anther | 
Simple ; grains of the pollen white, large, and spherical—Germ infe- 
_ Tor, oblong, very short pedicelled, hairy, 3-celled, with one ozulum — 
in each, attached to the bottom of its cell. " cues a 
liquely-incurved or hooked towards the anther,— Capsule short, trbi- 
