Dr Graham’s List of Rare Hants. 
Maranta secunda. 
This undescribed and curious spe- 
cies was brought from liio de 
Janeiro by Captain Graham of 
H. M. Packet Service in 1824. 
Description — Root creeping, 
throwing up many crowns. Stem 
oblique, compressed, very his- 
pid, hairs yellow, undivided, 
harsh, arising singly from deep 
brown dots, which are somewhat 
clustered. Leaves oblong, acu- 
minate, unequally divided by 
the middle rib, mostly radical ; 
sheaths very long, embracing 
each other and the stem, very 
hispid externally, but gradually 
less so upwards, strongly ciliated 
to very near the top ; petioles 
compressed, jointed near the top, 
brown, scabrous, grooved below 
the joint, above it green, com- 
pressed, without groove, more 
smooth, or scarcely hispid on its 
fore part ; middle rib of leaf 
round, smooth, and prominent 
behind, slightly channelled in 
front, veins parallel, extending 
to the edge of the leaf, connect- 
ed by exceedingly delicate trans- 
verse lines. Spikes conjugate, 
arising from the axilla of a ter- 
minal leaf, supported on a hispid 
footstalk, at the base of which 
there are two sheathing, unequal 
acuminate braeteas, dense, flat on 
one side, round on the other, bor- 
dered with apices of large, green, 
hispid, imbricated, pointed brac- 
teas ; rachis zigzag, toothed. 
Flowers expanding in succession 
during several weeks, produced 
from the flat side of the spike ; 
spikelets 6-flowered, with thin 
transparent braeteas between 
the flowers, which are in pairs, 
and pedicelled. Calyon triphyl- 
lous, leaflets hispid externally, 
smooth within, thin, membra- 
nous, ovato-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, adpressed. Corolla , outer 
limb of three segments, very si- 
milar to the calyx, but broader, 
.and more blunt, unequally in- 
serted ; inner limb of three seg- 
ments, pale purple, colour deeper 
at the edges, two with slender 
claws, and the third having a 
cylindrical claw, forming the 
faux, firm, and yellow. Fila- 
ment petalloid, yellow, 2-parted, 
the larger segment holding the 
6tyle erect, the narrower sup- 
porting the anther on its side. 
Anther single, pear-shaped, at- 
tached below by its apex, cleft 
at the side. Stigma 3-cornered, 
excavated above. Style stout, 
compressed, as well as the stig- 
ma colourless, easily detached 
from the filament, when, with 
a jerk and slight noise, it is bent 
forward, so as to carry the stig- 
ma to the bottom of the flower ; 
germen inferior, covered with 
silky hairs. 
Melaleuca squarrosa. 
Has stood on the open wall for 
two winters without injury. 
Flowering began in the end of 
May. 
Musa coccinea. 
Musssenda frondosa. 
Nolana paradoxa. 
Ornithidium coccineum. 
Ornithogalum arabicum. 
- — gramineum. 
Phyllantlius reticulatus. 
Pimelea drupacea. 
• — — — pauciflora. 
Protea cynaroides. 
Miagodia nutans. 
Rosa Brunonii. 
Sagittaria latifolia, Willd. var. 
plena. 
This handsome plant was import- 
ed from North America. 
Scliinus dependens. 
Tradescantia fuscata. 
W ulfenia carinthiaca. 
