136 GENERAL COLLETT AND MR. W. B, HEMSLEY ON PLANTS 
Alpinia bracteata, Roxb.; Fl. Ind. i. p. 63; Clarkes Reprint, 
p. 21.—Shan hills at 4000 feet, Manders. 
Sikkim, Assam, and Burma. 
Canna indica, Linn.; Roxb. Fl. Ind. p. 1; Clarke's Reprint, 
p. 1.—Shan hills at 4000 feet, Manders. 
Tropical Asia, Afriea, and Polynesia, often colonized, as well 
as in America. 
H xwoDOoRACEEX. 
Ophiopogon, sp., specimen imperfectum folia carent.—Shan 
hills at 4000 feet. 
IRIDEX. 
Iris nepalensis, D. Don; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvi 
p. 143 ; Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. series 2, t.11. Forma depauperata, 
3-4 poll. alta.—Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
North India from Garhwal to Assam. 
There is little doubt that this is a starved-state of the species 
to which we have referred it. Like that, the leaves are thickly 
beset with very short purplish lines and dots. 
ÅMARYLLIDEÆ. 
Hypoxis aurea, Lour.; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. p. 108; 
syn. H. minor, D. Don.—Shan hills at 4000 to 4500 feet. 
North India, Burma, Cochincbina, Java, China, Japan, and the 
Luchu Archipelago. 
Crinum defixum, Ker; Bot. Mag. t. 2208; Baker in Gard. 
Chron. n. 8. xv. p. 786.—Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Bengal and Snuth India. 
Crinum, n. sp.?, aff. C. Cumingii; flores imperfecti tantum 
adsunt.—Common in the dry forest about Pyambe in the plains 
of Upper Burma. A handsome and conspicuous plant with pink 
and white fragrant flowers, produced towards the close of the 
rainy season. 
