A third species, L. Rhodopea, Dingl., is found in Thrace; 
it has slender stems and long cylindric racemes; a fourth 
(the only other) is Clandestina japonica, Miq., a native of 
‘Japan ; it has the habit and inflorescence of L. squamaria, 
but the corolla rather of L. clandestina. . 
A plant of L. Clandestina was presented to Kew in 
May, 1888, by Dr. Schumann of the Berlin Herbarium, 
and was planted by the roots of a willow near the piece of 
water opposite ' 2 Museum No. 1, where it has already 
increased threefoid, and flowered profusely in April, 1889. 
In “ The Garden,” April, 1869, p. 316, it is stated that in 
. the grounds. of the Honourable J. Saumarez, of Livermore 
Park, Bury St. Edmunds, there is a plant of DL. clandestina 
established on the roots of a deciduous Cypress. In 
Europe its favourite hosts are the Willow and Poplar. 
Rhizomes densely interlaced, cylindric, fleshy, scaly. 
Stems innumerable, nearly buried in the earth, densely 
crowded, four to six inches high, cylindric, smooth, fleshy, 
yellowish brown, scaly ; scales half to three-fourths of an 
inch broad, reniform, semi-amplexicaul, thick, spongy with- 
in, the lacune having pedicelled glands internally. Racemes — 
three to five inches high, many-flowered; flowers two 
inches long, erect, inserted all round the rachis, pale 
greyish purple or violet, with a dark purple lower lip; 
bracts like the scales of the stem; pedicels one inch long 
or less, very stout. Calygz tubular-campanulate, four-cleft 
above the middle; tube four-angled and four-ribbed; 
lobes triangular, margins thickened. Corolla laterally 
‘compressed, tube twice as long as the calyx, compressed, 
contracted above the base, and there hairy within; upper 
lip obtusely three-toothed; lower much shorter, recurved, 
margins incurved. Stamens four; filaments puberulous; 
anthers oblong, cells free and aristate at their bases, 
hirtellous. Ovary seated on an oblique fleshy disk, one- 
celled, or two-celled when young from the parietal placentas 
meeting in the axis; style slender, puberulous; stigma 
capitate, two-lobed. Capsule one-celled;.two-valved at 
the apex, placentas linear. Seeds four to five, large, testa 
fungous.—J. D.H. | : 
Fig. 1, Transverse section of a scale of the stem; 2, lower part of corolla 
laid open and stamens; 3, anther; 4, pistil and disk; 5, advanced ovary 
with enlarged disk :—al/ enlarged. 
