H. formicarium (the only British Indian species as yet 
known) that in a dried state they are undistinguishable ; 
but the rhizome of H. formicarium is unarmed, the corolla 
tube is very short and glabrous within, the fruit is crowned 
with a cup-shaped calyx-limb,and the pyrenes have no horn. 
H. Forbesii was discovered in New Guinea by Mr. Forbes, 
author of a ‘ Naturalist’s Wanderings in the Eastern 
Archipelago,’ who, in 1886, sent the plant here figured to 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it flowered in J uly, 1889, 
and fruited in the following October, and again in 1891,— 
mw. 
Fig. 1, Portion of branch and flowers ; 2, flowers ; 3, portion of corolla laid 
open; 4, fruit; 5 and 6, side and front view of pyrene; 7,seed; 8, embryo :~ 
all but fig. 1 enlarged. 
