plant to Kew from Pahaug, in the Malayan Peninsula. 

 This, which flowered in June, 1893, is here represented ; 

 its flowers are a good deal larger than those of the Ceylon 

 plant, but not than the Travancore one. 



Descr. — Boots of wiry fibres from a short horizontal 

 stock. Stems many from the rootstock, 4-8 inches long, 

 simple, erect, wiry, flexuous, green, trigonous, bearing at 

 the top a tuft of green bracts, a solitary long-petioled leaf, 

 and one or more long-peduncled flowers. Leaves 2-8 

 inches long, from linear-lanceolate to ovate- or triangular- 

 cordate, obtuse, acute, or acuminate, 5-9-nerved from the 

 base, dark green above, pale beneath ; base cuneate, retuse, 

 or more often deeply 2-lobed, lobes rounded, sinus acute; 

 nerves deeply sunk above, slender but prominent beneath, 

 venation transverse, loose ; petiole like a continuation of 

 the stem, 1-8 inches long. Peduncles 1-3 inches long, 

 slender, erect, green, or mottled with red-purple. Flowers 

 cernuous, i-f in. diam., dark purple. Perianth salver- 

 shaped, with a short tube and six-ovate-lanceolate obtuse, 

 nearly flat lobes. Stamens 6, sunk in the tube of the 

 perianth ; filaments very short, incurved ; anther of two 

 oblong cells, adnate to two diverging lobes of the connec- 

 tive, which is produced upwards into a subulate process, 

 and dorsally below into two tubercles. Ovary inferior, 

 turbinate, 3-keeled, 3-celled, cells 2-ovuled ; ovules super- 

 posed, pendulous ; stigmas 3, subsessile on the top of the 

 ovary, each of two pyriform horizontal lobes. Fruit 

 subrhomboid, coriaceous, 3-winged, crowned with the 

 withered perianth, indehiscent. Seeds oblong, trans- 

 versely rugose, and deeply grooved in the ventral face.— 



o . U . xz. 



Fig 1, Flower with the perianth removed ; 2, dorsal, 3 -and 4, front and 

 lateral view oi a stamen ; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section of ditto -.—All enlarged. 



