666 OXLVIL BURMANNIACEZ. (J. D. Hooker) [ZDurmanma. 
6. B. nepalensis, Hook. f.; stem 2-6 in. capillary 1-4-fld. naked, 
flowers à- in. obcordate white or yellowish, wings rounded or retuse at 
the top. Gonyanthes nepalensis, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537, 
t. xxxviii. f. 1. Cyanotis nepalensis, Miers in Wall. Cat. 9006. 
NEPAL, Wallich. Kuasta Hinis, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. 4 T. T., Clarke.— 
DISTRIB. Cochin China, Hong Kong. 
An extremely delicate white species, 
7. B. Wallichii, Hook. f.; stem 4-6 in. naked or with a few minute 
lanceolate scales, flowers 1-5 }-% in. linear triquetrous or narrowly 
3-winged. Gonyanthes Wallichii, Miers im Trans. Linn. Soc. xvin. 537, 
t. 38, f. 2; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 364. Burmannia sp., Griff. Ic. Pl. Asiat. 
t. 272, f. 2. . 
Burma, Wallich. 'lewAssERIM; at Mergui, Griffith (Kew Distrib, 5592). 
TRAVANCORE ; on the Anamallay Hills, Wight,—Distris. Hong Kong. 
Very variable in stature and robustness ; the Mergui specimens are filiform or even 
capiliary, the Anamallay ones quite robust and branched. 
8. B. Championii, Thwaites Enum. 325; stem 4—6 in. rather stout scaly 
5-12-fld., flowers subcapitate 1-j in. tubular trigonous white. B. pseudo- 
alata, Champ. mss. 
CEYLON; in forests of the Saffragan and Hinidoon Corle districts, Champion, 
Thwaites. 
Apparently a very distinct species; the perianth-lobes are larger than usual in 
the genus, and the stigmas are on longer branches of the style.—Near B. tuberosa, 
Beccari, of Borneo. 
2. THISMIA, Grif. 
Dwarf fleshy coloured simple herbs with leaves reduced to scales. 
Flowers few or solitary, large, terminal. Calyx-tube produced far abore 
the ovary, at length circumsciss, campanulate or turbinate, mouth annula Mi 
contracted ; lobes 3, recurved, subulate. Petals ovate oblong or subula; H 
recurved. Stamens 6, subsessile on the throat, connective very broad y 
dilated, connate or conniving as a deflexed membranous tube concealing 
the 2 parallel distinct elliptic cells. Ovary short, broad, 1-celled; sty 
short, conic; stigmas 3, stout, erect; ovules many on 3 parietal p 
centas. Fruit turbinate, top falling away with the calyx-tube.— Species 
or 8, Tropical Asiatic and American. 
l. T. Brunoniana, Griff. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 341, t. 39; stem 
several-flowered, calyx-lobes broadly ovate. 
TENASSERIM ; on decayed wood, Griffith. \ ttered, 
A fleshy saprophyte, yellow, 4-8 in. high ; stem stout, flexuous ; scales scar y 
ovate-lanceolate. Flowers racemose, pedicels stout, bracts like the scales. large 
tube 3 in. long, yellow tessellated with scarlet, warted. Connectives MA with 
membranous, truncate and denticulate at the apex, connate for balf their length, 
MN pi 
a 2-lobed gland? at each commissure. Fruit broadly *runcate.— Description d 
Griffith, 1. c. ' 
-fid 
2. T. Gardneriana, Hook. f. in Thwaites' Enum. 325; stem 4 
calyx-lobes rounded. T. Brunoniana, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. XX. b 
f. 20, 21 (not of Griff). Tribrachys Gardneriana, Champ. mss. 
CEYLON; at the roots of trees near Galle, Champion. 
