Tas. 6403, 
BURBIDGEA nrripa. 
Native of Borneo. 
Nat. Ord. ZrnerpERacex.—Tribe Amom2, 
Genus novum Bursincra, Hook, f. 
Gen. Cuar.— Perianthium exterius (calyx) tubulosum, membranaceum, ore 
truncato obscure 2-dentato; interius tubo gracili elongato; segmenta 
3 exteriora patentia, postico orbiculato subacuto, lateralibus minoribus 
elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis ; interiora lateralia 0. Zabellum parvum, 
erectum, anthere antepositum, stipite anther equilongo elongato, lamina 
oblongo-quadrata petaloidea, basi cordata, apice 2-fida. Anthera lineari- 
elongata, filamento brevi, connectivo in appendicem Janceolatam acutam 
lamina labello inclusam producto. Ovarium subcylindraceum, 3-loculare ; 
stylus filiformis, superne inter loculos anther» inclusus, stigmate breviter 
exserto parvo obliqne truncato concayo; ovula in loculis numerosa, pla- 
centis angulo interiori affixis inserta. Fructus elongatus, cylindraceus, 
coriaceus, indehiscens, 1-locularis, polyspermus. Semina immatura axi 
soluta 8-ptera inserta, erecta, fusiformia, arillo carnoso laciniato.—Herba 
caulescens, Borneensis, habita Hedychii, rhizomate repente, caulibus 2-3-peda- 
libus erectis fasciculatis. Folia alterna, subcarnosa, elliptico-lanceolata, 
cordato-acuminata, utrinque nitida. Flores speciosi, in paniculas terminales 
dispositi, aurantiaco-coccinei, odore zingiberaceo. Fructus 2-pollicaris. 
B. natida, Hook. f. 
This very beautiful plant is the type of an entirely new 
genus, with the habit of Hedychium, but with the lip reduced 
to a small stipitate blade, and with no lateral inner segments 
of the perianth. Mr. F. W. Burbidge, who discovered it 
when travelling in Borneo, for Messrs. Veitch, informs me 
that it grows in shady forests of the Murut district in 
N.W. Borneo, between the Lawas and Trusan rivers, at an 
altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 feet, in spots where there is little 
undergrowth ; and that it thrives best where the rhizomes 
form matted masses on moist rocks covered with vegetable _ 
débris, producing ten to thirty slender flowering stems, rarely 
exceeding ten feet high, and each bearing a panicle of twelve 
to twenty flowers. The leaves are of a lively glossy green 
on both surfaces, and serve to set off the rich orange-scarlet- 
colour of the flowers. Mr. Burbidge further remarks that 
it is very local in its distribution, he having found it only 
JANUARY lst, 1879. 
