Triuridaceae novae. J 7 



transversali dehiscentes, connective supra loculos haud producto. Plores 

 9 sine staminodiis; carpella libera, numerosa (30—35), vix carnosa, 

 rugulosa, in receptaculo conico sessilia, unilocularia, uniovulata; stylus 

 ventralis, papillosus, ovarium multo superans. Ovulum erectum, ana- 

 tropum, raphe ventrali. Pructus maturus non-visus. 



Seychelles: found growing at the base of trees in mountain forest 

 at 600 m, Mare aux Cochons, Mahe, H. P. Thomasset, February, 1906. 

 Herb. Kew. 



It has already been mentioned that the quasi- hermaphrodite flowers 

 of some of the Triuridaceae are occasionally irregular in structure in 

 relation to the number and position of the parts. Some of the male 

 flowers of Seychdlaria are obnormal in having an extra, perfect or 

 imperfect stamen or two; sometimes there are two or three stamens on 

 contiguous instead of alternate segments of the perianth, and occasionally 

 there are two or three imperfect carpels in the centre, and the stami- 

 nodes are wanting. In one flower we found excrescences near the 

 middle of perianth-segments, five of which were sessile and one stalked 

 as shown in Figure II on Plate IX. It would appear that these small 

 flowers are peculiarly subject to disturbances in their development. 



2. Sciaphila aneitensis W. B. Hemsley, 1. c, p. 75, pi. X. 



A. S. tendla Bl., floribus masculis triandris et carpellis numerosioribus 

 haud verruculosis recedit. 



Planta saprophytica, gracilis. Caules erecti, simplices, circiter 25 cm 

 alti. squamis paucis minutis instruct!. Flores numerosi, racemosi, pedi- 

 cellis brevibus recurvis, unisexuales, superiores masculi. Perianthium 

 utriusque sexus 6-partitum, segmentis ovatis apice comoso-barbatis in- 

 flexis nunquam reflexis. Plores masculi circiter 3 mm diametro, triandri; 

 stamina perianthii lobis alternis opposita; filamenta brevissima; antherae 

 bilobae, rima transversa dehiscentes; pistillodia numerosa, globosa. Flores 

 feminei carpellis fere maturis circiter 5 mm diametro; staminodia nulla? 

 sed flores iuniores non visi; carpella 30 — 40, ovoidea. circiter 1 mm 

 diametro, laevia, quam stylus infra medium ventralis tertia parte longiora, 

 stigmate minuto globoso papilloso. 



New Hebrides: Aneiteum, Mac Gillivrav. 1853. Herb. Mus. Brit. 



Repertorium novaram specierum. VI. 



