orbicular stigma, and its three oblong angular seeds; characters which it is impossible to mistake, and which 
will, it is hoped, serve to clear up one of the last and greatest difficulties which has hitherto retarded the 
knowledge of this portion of Scitaminean Plants. j 
For the opportunity of accomplishing this object, we are indebted to C. 8. Parker, Esq. who gathered 
many specimens of both the flowers and leaves of this plant in the year 1823, on the banks of the Pomeroon 
River at Essequibo. The figure in the present drawing represents a young plant intire, of the natural size; 
the leaf is that of a full grown plant, selected as a medium size from numerous specimens. 
To this plant we should probably have given the name of Phrynium spicatum, thereby retaining the 
specific appellation, had not that denomination been before applied by Dr. Roxburgh, in his Flora Indica, 
(vol. i. p. 5.) to a different species of Phrynium. We have therefore named it Phrynium ellipticum, from the 
singular form of its leaves, which are more accurately described by that appellation than those of almost 
any other plant with which we are acquainted. 
REFERENCES. . 
1. A pair of flowers, showing the exterior and interior bractes common to both, the clavate 
bracte, the interior partial bractes, the two flowers, one expanded, the other inclosed 
in its sheath, with their respective pedicel, germen, and superior calyx, the tube of 
the corolla expanding into its outer and inner limb, the upper lip of the inner limb, 
antheriferous, the anther with its pedicel, the truncate style and stigma, and the opposite 
lower lip. 
2. The binate unexpanded flowers, with the erect coriaceous spatulate bracte, common to both. 
3. The exterior floral bracte. 
4. The opposite angular winged bracte. 
5. The germen and calyx. 
6. Th 
7. The stigma magnified. 
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9 
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germen, style and stigma. 
B The rugose capsule. 
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10. The three seeds. 
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same opened, showing the cells. 
