. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. Botany. MARANTACEAE 409 80 trop. Mansoa DC. (Cuspidaria BH.}. Bignoniaceae (i). 5 Brazil, Bolivia. Mansonia J. R. Drumm. Triplochitonaceae. i Burma. Mantisia Sims. Zingiberaceae (i). 2 Indomal. M. saltatoria Sims (dancing girls) often cult, for its curious fls., borne on separate shoots from the rhiz. At the base is the K, then 3 broad pets., a curiously shaped labellum and 2 filamentous stds., and beyond all the fertile sta. and style. Mantle leaf, Platyceriinn. Manulea L. Scrophulariaceae (n. -,). 30 S. Afr. Manzanita, Arctostaphylos. Maoutia
. A dictionary of the flowering plants and ferns. Botany. MARANTACEAE 409 80 trop. Mansoa DC. (Cuspidaria BH.}. Bignoniaceae (i). 5 Brazil, Bolivia. Mansonia J. R. Drumm. Triplochitonaceae. i Burma. Mantisia Sims. Zingiberaceae (i). 2 Indomal. M. saltatoria Sims (dancing girls) often cult, for its curious fls., borne on separate shoots from the rhiz. At the base is the K, then 3 broad pets., a curiously shaped labellum and 2 filamentous stds., and beyond all the fertile sta. and style. Mantle leaf, Platyceriinn. Manulea L. Scrophulariaceae (n. -,). 30 S. Afr. Manzanita, Arctostaphylos. Maoutia Wedd. Urticaceae (3). 10 trop. As. and Polynes. No P in the ? fl. M. Puya Wedd. yields good fibre. Mapania Aubl. Cyperaceae (n). 45 trop. Mapaniopsis C. B. Clarke. Cyperaceae (n). i N. Brazil. Maple, Acer; - sugar, Acer saccharum Marshall. Mapouria Aubl. (Psychotria BH}. Rubiaceae (n. 5). Mappa A. Juss. = Macaranga Thou. (Euphorb.). Mappia Jacq. Icacinaceae. 7 trop. As. and Am. Maprounea Aubl. Euphorbiaceae (A. n. 7). 3 trop. Am., W. Afr. Maqui, the copse association of the Medit. coasts. Marah Kellogg (Echinocystis ). Cucurbitaceae (4). 10 N. Am. Marainophylium Pohl. Inc. sed. Nomen. Maranta Plum, ex L. Marantaceae. 18 trop. Am. The stds. /3 7 (see fam.) are present in many. The rhiz. of M. arimdinacea L. furnishes West Indian arrowroot, prepared by grinding and washing to free the starch. Marantaceae (EP.; Scitamineae BH^]. Monocots (Scitamineae). 12 gen., 150 sp. trop., chiefly Am. Herbaceous perennials of various habit, resembling Zingiberaceae, but at once distinguishable by the presence of a swollen pulvinus or joint at the junction of petiole and leaf-blade. L. 2-ranked, sheathing; one side of the 1. is larger than the other and is covered by it when the 1. is rolled up in the bud. Fls. usu. upon the leafy shoots, in pairs in the axils of the bracts, either one pair or many (cymose, drepania). The fi. is asymmetric, but in each pair the one is complem
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