4 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Phrynium. 
penetrates. from the base pretty far up, separating the two 
extremities of the embryo. —_ Vitellus ; none has been disco- 
vered in any of the simple-anthered scitaminez which have 
been examined by me. Embryo pure white, hooked, with 
the Convexity upward, which Soon with the ara 
of = wie : 
oP. virgatum. R. : ae 
- Stems simple. ‘Leaves a lanceolate. Sarees'or ter 
minal, filiform, compound, | 
A native of Malabar, ‘from thence-sent to the late Dr. 
Anderson of Madras for the Cardamom plant, and by him 
presented to the Botanic garden at ——— where it blossoms 
— the rainy season. cee oe 212 > Seidel oe 
~ Root a stout, crooked, tough, Abies horizontal mai | 
dy, with numerous, thick, strong fibres therefrom } ave | 
‘part void of odour. Stems numerous, erect, six to eight feet 
high, jointed, lower joint or two much swelled ; invested in 
the sheaths of the leaves, fistulous; the largest are about as 
thick as a slender walking cane near the base, and at the top 
as thick as acommon quill. Leaves bifarious, short-petioled on 
‘their sheaths, lanceolate, polished; from six to eighteen 
inches long. . “Sheaths* and petioles smooth and even, except 
the inside of the petioles, where there Bw tew long, feed 
hairs, Spikes terminal, two'or three toget hey | 
very generally two, or three cleft, very’ slender: ‘td often 
near a foot long, jointed, with a two-flowered pedicel at each 
joint... Flowers pure white, inodorous. Bractes two or three 
at each division; and also embracing the two-flowered pedi- 
cels, size very various, but the shape ensiform, and channel- 
led. Calyx of three, small, distinct, acute, conic, leaflets. 
Corol with a very short tube ; exterior border of three, near- 
ly equal, oblong, reflexed segments; within are two which 
are: —— andl much at rt weir the a conspi 
