6 MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA, Phrynium,. 
are from apex to base round and smooth; general length of 
the whole from six to twelve inches, which is nearly the height. 
of the whole plant, the position of the leaves being nearly: 
horizontal. Spikes solitary in the centre of the petioles, or 
lateral from their base, short peduncled, sub-cylindric, acute,’ 
apex elevated but little above the soil, imbricated on oppo- — 
site sides, with four to eight, alternate, bifarious bractes, or 
sheaths; each embraces a small spikelet of four or five pairs’ 
of sessile, small, nearly white flowers on the back, or inte-. 
rior side of the spikelet, which expand in succession, begin-. 
ning with the lower pair. Rachis flexuose, smooth, Bractes 3: 
exterior, or common, one at each joint of the spike, sub-cy-: _ 
lindric, sheathing, smooth, and rather obtuse ; interior, or pro= 
per one to each pair of flowers, Calyx three-leaved ; leaflets. 
lanceolate, smooth. Corol with a long, very slendér, smooth 
tube. Border ; exterior of three reflexed, oblong, obtuse seg-: 
ments ; within these are two larger, round-obovate, erect, curl-. 
ed portions; interior, or nectarium small, and like the other 
species unequally three-lobed. .Anther one-celled, attached 
to the inner border of the corol, Germ inferior, three-celled, 
with one ovulum in each, attached to the bottom of the cell}. 
Style blended with the tube of the corol, as in the other spe- 
cies described by me. niaine Bpsindte; thick, and fleshy. 
Seed vessel (not s seen.) 
4, P, imbricatum, Rio 8 bol 
~ Stemless, Leaves radical. - esis eckson sanis 
_ tary, short-peduncled ; bractes = =— — 
toothed i ued oo3 
_ Pittuli-pata, sha beriseaber’ name in’ thing ‘bees 
is common jin its ‘wild ‘state, Flowers in March ‘and sia 
and the seeds ripen in August. _ 
Root tuberous, &e. as in other scitamineous. sean Shi 
none, Leaves ‘radical, long-petioled, from oblong, to broad 
Janceolai : > tapering nearly as much at’the base as at the apex, 
ire, dae Precept 
