many of both genera in the Malay Archipelago, &c. Nor 

 is there sufficient reason for assuming that they should, 

 the tuberous rootstock being a provision for the plant 

 itself, and not for insects to nest in, similar to what occurs 

 in many of the Himalayan epiphytic vacciniaceous plants, 

 as may be seen on reference to the figure of Pentapterygium 

 serpens, at t. 6777 of this magazine. 



-fiT. longiflorum was received at Kew in August, 1891, 

 from Mr. D. Yeoward, Curator of the Botanical Station at 

 Fiji, and it flowered in the Royal Gardens in February of 

 the present year. 



Descr.— Tuber attaining several inches in diameter, 

 smooth, simple or lobed, emitting stout cylindric branching 

 glabrous stems from or near the crown. Leaves two to 

 two and a half inches long, subsessile, elliptic, obtuse, 

 sottly coriaceous, bright green, shining above, paler be- 

 neath, midrib strong; nerves few, obliquely ascending. 

 Flowers few, in small axillary clusters of two to five, 

 sessile, half an inch long, white. Calyx-tube subglobose; 

 limb very short, truncate, very obscurely 4-toothed. 

 Corolla-tube cylindric, walls thick, glabrous within; limb 

 1l\ v ^° Va i e s P readin g ™lvate thick segments, with 

 thickened mflexed tips. Anthers subsessile at the mouth 



W C T a '^ e u F tyU ver y lender, exserted; stigma 

 large, capitate, 4-lobed.— /. D. H. 



BtSa:-!te^ d ! 0,lgitUdilial SeCti ° n ° f COr ° lla ; 3 » ovary, style, and 



