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minas duas elongato) inslructum. — A Maranla com- 

 pressa A. Dictr. propter bracteas floruin brcves neque 

 acuininatas proxima differt petiolo supra vaginam el 

 bracteis nec non germine glabris. 



29. M. compressa A. Dietr. sp. pl. 1, 22. 

 Maranta Selloi Hort. 



PhryniumcompressumC.Koch.inBer]. Allg. Ctzt 1857, 147. 



Thalia Selloi C. Koch in Berl Allg. Gtzt. 1857, 258. Steud- 

 ner in app. catalog. hort. Berol. 1557. 10. 



Petiolis undique hirlis; lamina lato - oblonga; bracteis 

 ovatis, acutis, margine strigilloso-setosis ; germine versus 

 apicem annulo flavescenti-piloso cincto, inferne adpresse 

 piloso vel glabrato. 



Brasilia. In hortis nostris colitur. 



30. M. Luschnathiana Rgl. et Kcke in ind. sem hort. 

 PetropoL 1857. 31. Kcke in Rgl. Gtfl. 1858, 81. 



Phrynium Luschnathianum Hort. et C. Koch in Berl. Allg. 

 Gtzt. 1857, 147 4 



Thalia Luschnathiana C. Koch in Berl. Allg. Gtzt. 1857, 258. 

 Steudner in app. catalog. hort. Berol, 1857, 10. 



Petiolo dorso hirlello ceterum glabro vel versus apicem 

 etiam undique hirtello; lamina lato-oblonga; bracteis ova- 

 tis, acutis vel subacuminatis , margine hirto-pubescentibus; 

 germine pilis appressis flavescentibus versus apicem den- 

 sioribus hirsutis. 



Brasilia. In hortis nostris colitur. 



Bracteae acutiores, quam in Maranta compressa A. 

 Dietr. In utraque specie pili germinis appressi, rigiduli, 



