III. 

 Marantaceae of the Philippines. 



With 3 plates and 31 figures. 



By 

 J. PEItKINS. 



Flowers very irregular, hermaphrodite, with calyx and corolla. 

 Sepals free, equal or subequal. Corolla- tube short, or more fre- 

 quently long, rarely wanting; lobes colored or white, the exterior 

 lobe usually larger and at the apex cucullate. Only one fertile 

 stamen; anther 1- celled with a petaloid appendage. Inner pair of 

 staminodia always present, the one cucullate and including the style 

 before flowering, the other callose. Outer staminodia 1 — 2, petaloid. 

 Ovary inferior 1 — 3-celled; cells 1-ovuled. Style simple, recurved 

 at the point, inclosed in the cucullate- staminode, at flowering spring- 

 ing out and striking against the callose staminode. Fruit a loculicide 

 capsule, or an indehiscent nut or berry. Seeds 1 — 3, arillate. — 

 Perennial herbs sometimes high. Stem short or long. Leaves 

 distichous. Inflorescence often large. Flowers almost always in pairs. 



About 300 species in the Tropics of the whole world. 



Key to the genera. 



A. Ovary always distinctly 3-celled, 2 of the cells apparently 

 empty (ovules at first present, obvious) 



Tribe I. Phrynieae Peters, 

 a) The outer staminodia 2. 



1. Flowers in pairs; bracteoles small, 

 incrassate; bracts caducous 



1. Donax Lour. 



2. Flowers solitary 2. Monophrymum K. Schum. 



J. Perkins, Fragmenta florae Philippinae. Q 



