dimensions, colour, &c., of flower, breadth of inner corolla 
segments, and length of stamens. D. wndulatum appears 
to be a starved specimen. Its only recognized congener is 
D. Sieberianus, Kunth, which has reflexed capsules. 
I am indebted to Mr. Lynch, of the Cambridge Botanical 
Garden, for this beautiful plant, which he first sent in 1882, 
but it arrived too late, and unfit for figuring. In June, 
1883, excellent specimens were received from the same 
source, and which are here pourtrayed. The scent is that 
of Heliotrope, but fainter. 
Descr. Lootstock stout, creeping and sending forth in- 
numerable stout root-fibres, of which many become tuberous 
towards the end; tubes a quarter to three-quarters of an 
inch long, fleshy, ellipsoid, acute at both ends. Leaves in 
the largest forms a foot and a half long by half an inch 
broad, concave, bright green, grass-like, sheathing at the 
very base only, nerves faint. Stem longer than the leaves, 
erect, stout or slender. Raceme or panicle three to eight 
inches long; bracts very variable, green or scarious, lowest 
at the base of a branch often linear-lanceolate and two 
inches long, those under the flowers linear or lanceolate, 
short or long; a two-bracteolate flower appears at the 
forks of the panicle; pedicels in the largest forms one and 
a half inch long, very slender, erect or inclined in flower, 
decurved in bud, obscurely jointed beneath the flower. 
Perianth one and a half inch in diameter or less, sometimes 
only a quarter of an inch, pale or dark purple. Segments 
horizontally spread; outer elliptic oblong, acute, concave ; 
mner rather longer, twice as broad, orbicular or oblong 
and obcordate, three-nerved down the centre, margins erose. 
Stamens half the length of the erianth, suberect, filaments 
very short, glabrous ; anthers linear, dark purple; appen- 
dages oblong, granular. Ovary globose, glabrous; style 
filiform, stigma simple. Capsule globose, on an erect or 
spreading pedicel. Seeds compressed, testa black.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamen; 2, pistil ; 3, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
