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an inch broad, the inner narrower. Style-crests sliort and broad. 

 Capsule-valves above an inch long, | in. broad. 



Hab. Lord Howe's Island, Australia. Introduced into cultivation in 

 1877, and flowered in Scilly at the Tresco Abbey gardens in 1877, and at Kew, 

 under cover, in 1891. A most distinct and handsome species, with the habit of 

 Phonnium tenax. 



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4. Marina Ker. 



Perianth-iwhe obsolete ; segments of the two rows very dis- 

 similar ; outer obovate, spreading ; inner much smaller, panduri- 

 form, convolute. Stamens short, erect ; filaments distinct. Ovary 

 clavate, 3-celled ; ovules many, superposed ; style subulate at the 

 base, cyathiform with three angles in the upper half, to which the 

 anthers loosely adhere ; style-crests lanceolate, with the transverse 

 stigmas at their base. Capsule oblong, loculicidally 3-valved. 

 Seeds subglobose or angled by pressure, with a brown testa and 

 horny albumen. — Bootstock a short rhizome. Leaves ensiform, dis- 

 tichous, flabellate. Peduncle flat and leaf-like, with 1 or few sub- 

 sessile or peduncled flower-clusters. Flowers very fugitive, blue, 

 yellow or white. 



1. M. c^RULEA Ker in Bot. Reg. t. 713 ; Hook. Exot. Flora t. 

 222. Cypella ccerulea Seub. ; Bot. Mag. t. 5612. Galathea ccBrulea 

 Liebm. — Leaves 6-8, ensiform, bright green, 2-3 ft. long, l-l^- in. 

 broad. Peduncle elongated, ensiform, as broad as the leaves. 

 Clusters 2-4, on very short or elongated peduncles ; spathes 2-3 in. 

 long; outer valves green, rigid, lanceolate. Expanded flower 

 3-4 in. diam., bright blue or lilac ; outer segments 1-li in. broad, 

 variegated at the base with transverse bars of brown, yellow and 

 white ; inner with a recurved blue point and large transversely 

 barred claw. Style-crests lanceolate, with the spreading deltoid 

 stigmas at their base. Capsule clavate oblong, 1-| in. long. 



Hab. Tropical America, common in cultivation. M. Sahini Lindl. in 

 Trans. Hort. Soc. vi. 75, t. 1, imported from Guinea, seems to me merely a form 

 of this species. It has been gathered of late years both by Barter and Mann. 



2. M. GLAUCA Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi. 149. Cypella 

 f/lauca Klatt. — Leaves linear, 3 ft. long, | in. broad. Peduncle as 

 long as the leaves, ^ in. broad at the base, ^ in. at the summit. 

 Spathe-valves glaucous, navicular, lanceolate, li- in. long. Ex- 

 panded perianth 2 in. diam. ; outer segments obovate, blue, with 

 cross veins of brown on the claw ; inner with a pilose claw and re- 

 flexed blue tip. Style-branches with three lanceolate crests. 



Hab. South and Central Brazil. Gathered by Sello & 'Warming. We 

 have a drawing in the Kew collection of an allied plant, flowered at Kew in 

 July, 1843, with similar flowers, but with much shorter broader leaves, which is 

 probably a distinct species. 



3. M. Warmingii Klatt Erganz. 41. — Basal leaves 2, linear, | in. 

 broad, under ^ ft. long. Stem terete, 3 in. long. Spathe an inch 

 long. Expanded perianth 2 in. diam. ; outer segments ovate, 

 acute, white at the base, blue at the apex ; inner half as long, with 

 a reflexed blue tip. 



