cluded under A. caudigerwm. The artist in making the 
analysis of the staminal column observed that the stamens 
were in three series: six inner, erect, longest ; then three 
in an outer series also erect, but with rather shorter fila- 
ments ; and lastly three outermost with reflected very short 
filaments.. The plant was drawn during my absence, and [ 
could not therefore verify this observation; and owing to 
their soft condition after maceration, I have failed to do so 
with flowers taken from the dried specimens. I observe, 
however, that the anthers are extrorse in all the stamens. 
A. caudigerum was first described by Dr. Hance, who 
procured specimens of it from the East River, in the 
Canton province of China. Specimens from the North 
River, in the same province, are cultivated by Mr. Ford in 
the Hong Kong Botanic Gardens, from whence that was 
procured from which the figure here given was made. It 
flowered in a cool green-house of the Royal Gardens in 
January of the present year. 
Descr. Stemless, loosely clothed with long flexuous 
hairs; crown with a pair of opposite oblong obtuse cata- 
phylls about aninchlong. Leaves two, radical, two to three 
inches long, very broadly ovate-cordate with a deep narrow 
sinus, or subhastate, margins undulate, rather light green | 
above, pale yellow green beneath, hairy on both surfaces ; 
petiole two to three inches long. Peduwncle much shorter 
than the petiole. Ovary broadly obovate, green. Perianth- — : 
tube subglobose, dirty green speckled with red-brown, 
villous within; lobes triangular-ovate, narrowed into 
slender tails an inch or more long, outer surface green, _ 
inner paler green or nearly white speckled with red. 
Stamens twelve, nine with stout erect filaments, alter- 
nately longer and shorter, and three much smaller with — 
sharply reflexed filaments and extrorse anthers; connectives 
produced beyond the oblong adnate cells into a short 
blunt apex. Styles six, connate almost to their tips, 
forming a cone with six short free recurved obtuse 
stigmata.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with part of the perianth cut away; 2, hair from the interior 
of the perianth; 8, outer reefixed, and 4, inner erect stamen; 5, column of 
styles and stigmata :—ad/ enlarged. 
