MARANTA DIVARICATA. VAR. 
MONANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
SECT. I. CANN. 
Gen. Cuar.—Anther single, attached to the margin of the petal-like filament; style tubular, revolute ; stigma 
trilobate ; capsule ovate; seed single. 
Srrc. Cuar.—Stem herbaceous, imbricated, lateral branches dichotomous; leaves purple below, and on the 
mid-rib above. 
DESCRIPTION. 
Roots fibrous; stem herbaceous, succulent, erect, imbricated with long alternate bractes or scales, terminating 
in an obtuse apex, of a purple colour; lateral branches diverging from the principal stem in pairs, and 
covered with similar scales; leaves alternate, broad-lanceolate-acute, cordate at the base, and of a deep purple 
colour below ; petioles purple, terminating in a green villous ganglion; panicles long, slender, supporting several 
pairs of white flowers, with a long villous bracte to each pair; calyx superior, of three equal lanceolate segments, 
green; corolla tubular, outer limb in three segments, ovate, equal, intire; inner limb in three segments; lateral 
segments intire, ovate, equal, the third section or lip larger, ovate, intire, or slightly lobed at the apex; filament, 
anther, style and stigma, as in the genus; seed-vessel a succulent, pear-shaped capsule, with a single, gibbous 
seed, perforated with cavities, which contain the embryo. 
OBSERVATIONS. 
Although this plant differs but little in conformation from that which we consider as the original species, 
yet its diversity in colour, its larger growth, and its having flowered and ripened its seeds in Europe, have induced 
us to give a figure of it. Like the former, it was sent from the Brazils by Mr. William Harrison, and flowered 
in the Conservatory of Arnold Harrison, Esq. at Aighburgh, to whose kindness we are indebted for the opportunity 
of making the present drawing. 
REFERENCES. 
1, 2, 3. Different views of the filament, anther, style and stigma, magnified. 
. Panicle and capsules, crowned with the permanent calyx. 
. Capsule opened longitudinally. 
. Seed. 
. Ditto, cut transversely, to show the cavities. 
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. Ditto, cut longitudinally. 
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. Embryo. 
