terminating in a small marginal lobe; the whole stigma 
much resembling the pileus of some of the smaller species 
of Mycena. ‘T’. macrostigma, Baker (tab. 6280) has fewer 
flowers in a drooping spike, and its large, red, imbricately 
lobed stigma is borne on a much shorter style, so as to 
almost close the mouth of the perianth-tube. 
Descrv.— A robust, glabrous herb. Rhizome creeping, 
thick; basal sheaths ovate or oblong, acuminate, mem- 
branous. Leaves approximate, oblanceolate, acuminate, 
quite entire, shining, four feet long, four inches and a 
half broad ; nerves obliquely joined to the midrib at varying 
heights, translucent; petioles rigid, erect. Peduneles 
terete, three inches long; spikes nodding or almost 
pendulous, three to four inches long, dense; bracts much 
shorter than the flowers. Flowers about an inch and a 
- quarter in diameter, dull reddish-purple inside, outside 
at first green with purple margins to the perianth-lobes, 
at length entirely buff. Perianth-tube shortly campanulate 
or alniost cupular, sparingly pilose inside; lobes six, 
patent, broadly triangular, obtuse. Filaments very short 
and thick, inserted just above the middle of the perianth- 
tube ; anthers oblong, introrse. Ovary small, three-lobed ; 
Style cylindrical, exserted; stigma peltate, three-lobed, 
much broader than the ovary.—W. B. H. ~ 
Fig. 1, part of perianth and stamens; 2 and 3, front and back views of 
_ an anther; 4 pistil :—al/ enlarged. 
