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coe, Hook. b. mag. 3192 who says it ought to 

 be a Genus. Mauritius Id- If Bojer had a 

 G. already, we may substitute Doxantiies 

 meaning glorious flowers. Brown has wrongly 

 united Reneahnia of L. to Alpinia, and framed 

 a N. G. Renealmia my Ezcria near my Olsy- 

 nium differing by unequal petals, but his R. pul- 

 chella with 3 inner petals subeq. unguic. and 

 free stamens is probably an Orthrosantes, 



948. Ilythuria R. (nymph) diff. Thalia, cal. 

 3part. eq. acum. cor. tubo trigono, limbus du- 

 plex, ext. 3fid. eq. undul. intern. 3fid. ineq. uno 

 segm. cuculato, filam. petaloid. bipart. anthera 

 unica clavata adnata, stylo teres incurvo, stig. 

 concavo, drupa uniloc. — Type 11. cannaformis 

 Raf. Thalia do, Forst, Pers. Buch. ic. in Symes ~y 



travels, dichot. fol. ovat. ellipt. acum. petiolis 

 spathaceis, pedic. artic. furcatis multifl. fl. alt. 

 spathis lane, from Pegu to Polynesia. — The 

 Thalia geniculata of America agrees in nothing 

 but the fruit a drupe stated to be bilocular by 

 L. the corolla has 5 petals only, the 2 internal 

 urceolate, the filament is lanceolate &-c. It is 

 the type of Thalia. 



949. Spirostylis R. diff. Thalia, cal. 3sepa- 

 lis subeq. ovatis acutis, cor. duplex. 6petala, pet. 

 3 ext. obov. eq. 3 int. ineq. filam. petaliform 

 apice concavo, basi ferens anthera Hoc. longe 

 pedunc. filif. stylo spiralis, stig. magno labiato 

 concavo; fructus obov. levis nux flexilis Hoc. 1 

 sperma. Acaulis, fl, panic, spathis Realms 

 2/1 — Type Sp. hiflora Raf. Thalia dealbata 

 Rose. Pursh. El. .&.c fol. petiol. ovatis, fl. panic, 

 spathis 2fl. subeq. convol. Florida and Caro- 

 lina, seen alive, fl. purplish binate small sessile. 

 Nearer to Ilythuria by fruit and corolla, but 



