Tas, 7484. 
ASPIDISTRA TYPICA. 
Native of Tonkin ? 
Nat. Ord. Liniacna.—Tribe AsPIDIsTREs. 
Genus Asripistra, Ker.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 772.) 
AsrrpistRa typica; foliis longe petiolatis elliptico-lanceolatis acuminatis basi 
subinequilateralibus utrinque laete viridibus sub-7-nerviis, nervulis trans- 
versis creberrimis, petiolo gracili canaliculato viridi dorso rotundato, 
floribus numerosis longe pedunculatis, pedunculo robusto prostrato v. 
geniculatim decurvo flexuoso vaginato purpureo maculato, vaginis sparsis 
_brevibus ovatis obtusis flavidis, floribus 2-bracteatis, bracteis perianthio 
suppositis late ovatis acutis patentibus purpureo-variegatis, perianthio 
crasse coriaceo globoso breviter 6-fido extus pallide purpureo punctulato 
intus saturate purpureo, lobis ovatis obtusis erectis wstivatione valvatis 
apicibus imbricatis, antheris 6 parvis basi perianthii sessilibus, ovario 
brevi 3-loculari loculis 2-ovulatis, stylo brevi crasso stigmate umbraculi- 
forme margine 6-lobo. 
A. typica, Baill. in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, No. 143 (1894) p. 1129. Wiener 
Illustr. Gartenz. (1894), p. 266. Kew Bulletin (1895) App. II. 34. 
The remarkable plant here figured differs from its con- 
geners in the apparently constantly trimerous parts of the 
flower, the arrangement in the other species being normally 
tetramerous ; though a departure to the trimerous is known 
to occur in one of these. In fact the genus Aspidistra was 
established on a trimerous flowered state of A. lurida, as 
will be found on referring to the original description of 
the genus by Ker in the Botanical Register (t. 628); the 
tetramerous state of which species is figured at t. 2499 of 
this magazine. It is this reversion in A. typica from 
the tetramerous state (which is abnormal amongst Mono- 
_cotyledons) to the typical trimerous of this class, that the 
Species owes its name. Another member of the genus, 
A. punctata, var. albo maculata, is figured at t. 5386 of this 
work. It has also tetramerous flowers ; as has A. punctata, 
Lindl. (Bot. Reg. t. 977). These two plants, if specifically 
the same, which is, I think, doubtful, differ from A. 
lurida and typica in their stigma, which is not a simple 
umbrella-like 6-lobed organ, but has a much divided circum- 
ference of 6 teeth alternating with as many reflexed lobules. 
M. Baillon has described (Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1. c.) 
Jcxy Ist, 1895, 
