TALS) 
MARICA cerulea. 
Blue Northiana. 
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" TRIANDRIA MONOGYNLA. 
Nat. ord. ENsatx. Linn. ord. nat. VI. Nobis in Ann. of Bot. 1. 219. 
IripEs. Jussieu gen. 57. IRiDEX. Brown prod. 1. 302. 
MARICA. Supra vol. 3. fol. 229. 
Div, 1. Stigmatibus petaliformibus coadunatis. Marice v.Cipure. Americe 
intratropice. Nob. supra p. 4. vol. 3. fol. 229. 
‘ cerulea, scapo numerosifloro erecto, spatha non vivipara; (ut in Ma- 
RICA northiand.) 
a 
_, A newly observed species from the Brazils; very near to 
the beautiful and well-known Manrica northiana, but in 
that the lamina of the larger segments of the corolla is 
White, blue in this; in that the flowers are fewer, the 
Ower-stem viviparous and bent backwards to the ground, 
Where the young plant that is produced within the spathe 
takes root; here the stem is quite upright and straight, and 
Hie Pathe not viviparous. Leaves from four to six feet 
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