Tas. 7482. 
LO URYA CAMPANULATA. 
Native of Cochin-china. 
Nat. Ord. Hamoporacex.—Tribe OpxtopogonEeR. 
Genus Lourya (Baill. Bull, Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 93, p. 743.) 
Lourra campanulata; rhizomate brevi, foliis radicalibus longe petiolatis 
oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque acuminatis nervis elevatis subplicatis, 
petiolis basi vaginis membranaceis stipatis, floribus in racemos breves 
breviter pedunculatos densifloros dispositis, bracteis ovatis acuminatis 
membranaceis, pedicellis brevibus, perianthii late campanulati marsces- 
centis lobis 6 2-seriatis subeequalibus patentibus subacutis flavidis, 
exterioribus late ovatis, interioribus late oblongo-ovatis, ore membrana 
horizontali antherifera fere clausa, antheris 6 erectis late oblongis 
2-locularibus, ovario infero late obconico depresso 3-loculari, stigmate 
parvo pyramidato obtuse trilobo, ovulis in loculis paucis basilaribus erectis 
anatropis, bacca ovoidea coerulea. : 
L. campanulata, Baill. l.c. Oarritre in Rev. Hortic. vol. xi. (1889) p. 128, 
fig. 32. 
A very curious plant, with the habit of Curculigo and 
Peliosanthes, differing from the former of these genera in 
the stamens and basal ovules; and from Peliosanthes in 
the baccate fruit, the pericarp of which is not burst open 
when in a young state by the enlarging seeds, and thus 
necessitating the maturing of the latter in a freely exposed 
condition. I have unfortunately been unable to figure or 
describe the seeds of Lowrya from the fruit of the Kew 
plant having been destroyed by insects on ripening. 
The specimen here figured was obtained from a French 
nursery in 1892. It flowered in a stove of the Royal 
Gardens, first in December, 1894, and again in January, 
1896, when the fruit of the former year was approaching 
maturity. 
Descr.—Rootstock stout, shortly creeping underground, 
and throwing up tufts of leaves and flowering stems, the 
_ and peduncles of which are enveloped in long, 
anceolate, pale yellow-brown membranous sheaths, two to 
four inches long. Leaves (with the petiole) ten to twenty 
inches long, by three to four broad, erect, inclined or 
drooping, oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, narrowed 
Juty Ist, 1896, 
