anticd (tubo modicé torto, laterali, ei Iaterales tum antici fiunt et pos- 
tici), inter ldcinias laterales exteriorum, concavd, cucullata? cestivatione 
styli parlem liberam cum stigmate involventi, intra marginem lateralium, 
quasi serie altera, insertd, hinc denti auriculiformi (stamen sterile labello 
connatum) pauld supra faucem tubi marginata, indé filamento connata v. 
libera, tum utroque margine auriculata; stamen lacintd posticé serici ex- 
terioris insertum; filam. tenue, lanceolatum, diaphanum, erectum, stylt 
longitudine, labelli margine altero hinc connatum v. liberum, margine anthe- 
rifero multo crasstore et paululiim labellum versiis torto ; anth. pauld infra 
apicem dextram filamenti adnata, elliptica, e@stivalione ad styli apicem ap- 
pressa et ante labelli expansionem pollinem album sphericum carnosum mutud 
pressione seepé subangulatum emittens, unilocularis, septo longitudinali in 
loculos binos parallelos semidivisa. Germ. inferum 3-loc.; loculamenta ovulo 
unico erecto; stylus filiformis, impubis, faucem usque cum tubo ante filamen- 
tum accretus, supra faucem liberus, valde incrassatus, pauld compressus, 
laberrimus, albidus, transversus, apice obliqua iat: stigma termz- 
nale, infundibuliforme, obliquum, margine incrassatum, @stivatione compres- 
sum, posted upertum, ab anthera reversum: plerumque pollen in humero styli 
stigmatt proximo. dimittitur; bis autem in ipsa stigmatis cavitate observavi: 
Anthesis 2 fusciculis posticis (axt communi proximis) spice infime incipit, et 
ordine simili sursum pergit; fasciculorum posticorum Beis emarcidis, ante- 
riores candem normam sequuntur. Lindley. MSS. 
'. Introduced from the Brazils in 1815. We have no doubt that the dif- 
ferences between-the species previously combined under Maranta and the 
present, will suggest to some botanist, who may feel himself sufficiently 
versed in -the study of the natural tribe to which our plant belongs, the 
propriety of detaching it under a new gencric denomination. In the 
mean time we present our readers with a most ingenious and elaborate 
description by Mr. Lindley, junior, of Catton, near Norwich. 
~The drawing was taken from a fine specimen which flowered in the hot- 
house of Mr. Kent, at Clapton; to whicli a very liberal access is afforded 
for the purposes of science. “ 
A perennial herbaceous plant, with a tuberous root. Leaves radical 
uadrifarious, disposed in’ fascicles, the outer ones (those which were 
first produced) twice as short as the interior. and supported by two 
Jeafless footstalks;-foolstalks 9-83 feet long, erect, channelled, equitant at 
the base, three times narrower at the upper extremity than at the lower 
-bright green with a paler margin; lamina of the largest leaves separated 
from the footstalk bya cylindrical greenish purple joint from } an inch 
to an inch in length, about 24 feet long and 8 inches broad in the 
middle, at first erect and rolled up Jongitudinally, afterwards horizontal 
and a little bent downwards, elliptical, undulated, obtuse, a little curled at 
the margin towards the base which is dilated on each side of the footstalk; 
the upper side velvety, dark green, banded with parallel, obliquely trans- 
verse, ‘equidistant, sbroad stripes, alternately interrupted across the 
middle, much paler than the rest of the leaf and confluent at the margin 
and rib, _traversed in the direction of the bands by . numerous, very 
narrow, simple, close-set, pale veins; the under side silky, purple, whole. 
coloured, a little paler towards the edge. Scape cylindrical, smooth 
naked, of the thickness of a finger at the base, arising from the axille of 
