Phrynium. MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 7 
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long, by four to eight broad. Petioles longer than the leaves, 
cylindric, smooth, the flowerbearing ones have a hairy joint 
near the middle, and frem the joint up, a slit of between two 
and. three inches in length opens on one side for the spike, 
its margins thin and hairy. Spike solitary, short-peduneled, 
simple, linear-oblong, three to four inches long, imbricated. 
Bractes ; exterior oval, truncate, with the transverse apex 
many-toothed, smooth, each embracing’ several small, pale, 
pink flowers, which expand in succession. Inner bractes 
small, and membranaceous, Calyx, corol, and stamen, as in 
P. parviflorum.. Germ. three-celled, with one ovyulum in 
each, attached to the bottom of its cell. Style, as in the other 
species, it grows to, and is blended with the tube of the corol, — 
its apex free, thick and hooked. Stigma gaping, obliquely 
toward the anther. Capsule. oblong, size of a large field 
_ bean, rugose, three-celled, three-valved, opening from the 
apex. Seeds solitary, sitting on a partial aril, and attached 
to the bottom of the cell; external tunic hard, brown, and 
polished. Perisperm lena to the seed. Embryo erect, 
simple, the apex hooked. | Radicle cates slo: ‘to the um- 
bilicus of the seed. _ Ae 
- Obs, bi: simple, short-peduncled, Neabeicsiied lise 
oblong spike, b AMMEN 
ly points it ot. 
5. P. parviflorum. R. ‘ 
- Stemless.. Leaves radical. Heads of hice - psinay 
deine acute, — : 
A native of the iusto vee lak Deeb With P. emp 
sony tecbaiggnones ators: thee nearing oh hg raion 1 
Root tuberous, drowicontsk; baixy, iets pect on in 
