1 1 2 MARANTACE AE . 



Herba perennis ex affinitate cum I. Martiano Eichl. Caulis e rhizomate 

 rubro erectus, sparse hirsutus, 64 cM. longus. Ramus florens foliis regulariter 

 distichis munitus caulem terminans. Folia ad 11 congesta. Vagina 13 — 17 

 cM. longa; petiolus 7 — 10 cM. longus; pars superior ad 2 — 3 cM. longa 

 teres callosa minute puberula. Lamina siccitate brunnea, glabra, 25 — 28 

 cM. longa, 7—8 cM. lata, vix excentrice acuminata. Racemus solitarius, 

 32 cM. longus, pedunculo ad 40 cM. longo suffultus, glaber. Bracteae ad 

 14, glabrae, infima acuminata, ceterae obtusae, coriaceae 2'/ 2 — 3V2 cM. 

 longae. Paria florum sessilium 3, bracteolae apice claviculato-induratae 

 lineares, 3 cM. longae; ovarium sericeum; sepala 18 mM. longa linearia, 

 glabra; corrollae violaceae tubus 2'/ 2 cM. longus, lobi 12 mM. metientes. 

 Fructus non suppetit. 



PL II. 



Upper Saramacca River, near Janbasigado: Pulle 175 (fl. Jan.) 



MONOTAGMA K. Schum. 



Monotagma laxum (Popp. et Endl.) K. Schum. in das Pflanzenreich 

 IV. 48. p. 168. 

 Calathea laxa Popp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Spec. II. p. 22 t. 130. 

 Surinam: Kappler 1335. 

 Peru, Venezuela, Guyana. 



Monotagma Parked (Roscoe) K. Schum. Pflanzenreich IV. 48. p. 168. 

 Pkrjinium Parkeri Roscoe Monandr. PL t. 42. 



Paramaribo : Kappler 1646 named Maranta lachnocaula Mia. in Lin- 



naea XVIII p. 755. 

 Near Poelepantje: Kegel 76 in forests (fl. July). 

 Surinam River, near Koffiedjompo : Versteeg 510 in forests (fl. June). 

 Upper Nickerie River, near Fallawatra : Tulleken 468 H. L. B. 903, 



322-1535 (fl. Sept.). 

 Surinam: Hostmann H. L. B. 903, 322—143. 

 Guyana, Peru. 



Monotagma guyanense (Korn.) K. Schum. Pflanzenreich IV. 48 p. 169. 

 Ischnosiphon guyanense Korn. in Bull. Soc. nat. Moscou XXXV. 1 p. 87. 

 Gonini River: Versteeg 186 on the riverside (fl. Aug.). 

 Para River, near Beekhuizen: Kegel 675 (fl. Sept.) named by Miquel 



Maranta obliqua Rudge in Linnaea XXII p. 79. 

 Commewyne River, near plant. Cannawappibo : Splitgerber 289 H. L. B. 



899, 139—604 and 605 in forests (fl. Dec). 

 French Guyana. 



Monotagma surlnamense Pulle nova spec. 



folia minus obliqua, petioli pars callosa basi annulata, rami panniculae 

 breves, dorsiventrales. 



