Burmannia.] CXLVI BURMANNIACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) 665 
leafy, leaves 2-6 in. narrow recurved, midrib stout, flowers } in. secund on 
the branches of a deflexed forked cyme, wing narrow. 
PERAK; alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini, King's Collector.—DisTRiB. Borneo 
at 5000 ft. . 
Root fibrous, Leaves lin. broad. Forks of cyme lin.; bracts } in.; flowers 
pale blue; perianth-segments long, narrow. 
3. B. coelestis, Don Prodr. 44; stem 4-8 in. slender leafy or nearly 
leafless, radical leaves i-3 in, flowers solitary or 2-3 j-j in. oblong 
obcordate or orbicular in outline blue, wings rounded truncate or retuse at 
the top. Royle Ill. 373, t. 91; Wall. Cat. 9005. B. uniflora, Herb. Rott. 
B. azurea, Griff. Notul. iii. 236; Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 272, f. 1; Beccari Males. i. 
242, t. 15, f. 1-3. B. javanica, Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. i. 28; Miquel Fl. Ind. 
Bat. iii. 614. B. bifurca, Herb. Ham. B. trifora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 117. 
Cryptonema malaccensis, Turez. in Flora 1848, i. 590. Nephroccelium 
malaccense, Turcz. l. c. 1853, i. 287 (and by error Nephrocodium in Walp. 
Ann. vi. 41). 
TROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nepal, Wallich. Kuasts Mrs.; CHITTAGONG and 
southward to Maracca and the ANDAMAN Istanps, CENiRAL INDIA and the 
Deccan PrNiINSULA, from Hazarebagh, Clarke, to TRAVANCORE and CEYLON.— 
Distriz. Mauritius, China, the Malay Islands and N. Australia. . d 
, Very variable in size, stout or slender, leafy or almost leafless, and in the form an 
size of flowers; oblong or elliptic and orbicular perianths occur on the same specimen. 
The Principal varieties are— : 
1. Stem 6-10 in. rather stout with numerous erect radical and cauline leaves 
3-1 in. long, the radical narrow or short and 1 in. broad.— Malacca, Mergui, Singa- 
pore, Borneo, China, Cochin China, . 
2. Stem 4-8 in. sleuder, leaves very few or reduced to scales in the stem.— 
Common. Passes into B., pusilla. 
4. B. pusilla, Thwaites Enum. 325; stem 2-6 in. very slender, lanor 
very few radical 3 in., cauline 0 or 1-2, flowers 1-3 2 in. obiong orbicu 397. 
obcordate, wings rounded at the top. Benth. Fl. Austral. vi. 
Tripteranthes pusillus, Wall, Herb. Cyananthus pusilla, Miers in Woll. 
38 9008. Gonyanthes pusilla, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 997, 
t. 98, f. 3. 
C TENASSERIN ; at Tavoy, Gomez, NomTH and Sourn CoxcaN, Law.—DisTRIB. 
ambodia, 
I suspect this is a small state of 23. celestis. 
** Radical leaves 0. 
5. B. candida, Griff. ‘nss.; stem 4-8 in. filiform naked or with a few 
minute subulate scales, flowers }-} in. solitary or 2-3 white or blue orbicular 
eltoid or obcordate in outline, wings rounded truncate or retuse at the top. 
* Gonyanthes candida, Blume Enum. Pl. Jav. 29; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. 
m. 615; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537. Wallich 
Kaastra Mrs. ' Mih, &c. Burma; at Amherst, Wallich. 
pya SSERIM, G ifi; posed Asoc, eR TNSULA. from Canara southwards. 
XLON.—Distrip. Siam, in, Madagascar. . . 
This I can distinguish ^om nl Rang of B. colestis or pusilla only by the 
absence of radical leaves, possibly the effect of growing in water. The flowers are 
Usually blue, but Griffith has given the name to a white-flowered state. I have no 
Specimens of Blume’s Gonyanthes candida, which he describes as being fleshy and 
Browing on the dead roots of trees, 
