: ‘ same, much less than natural 
AMOMALS. * 50 ne MARANTS. 
Habitat, Peru. 
Quality. Starch nutritive, emollient, demulcent. 
Uses. Supposed to furnish the feecula called Tous les Mois in the shops. 
2. C. Achiras Gillies.—(AcuIRA.) 
Tuberous; stem green, downy; leaves abruptly acuminate; cor 
bipartite with linear divisions ; lip revolute, lanceolate, emarginate. 
Habitat. America, Mendoza to Guatemala. 
_ Quality. See next species. 
Uses, Tubers eaten as food in Chili and Peru. 
Maranta. Plumier. 
Ovules solitary, basal. Style fleshy, curved downwards. Stems branche 
Flowers white. ee 
Fig. 84.—Leaf and flowers of Maranta arundinacea; a, the stamen and style;.85. The tu 
