tens. The Glasgow Botanic Garden is indebted for the 
tubers to Witi1am Nimmo, Esq., who sent them in 1835 from 
Bombay, and they flowered beautifully in the stove in 
August, 1836. The plant would appear, however, not to be 
peculiar to the western coast of the Peninsular of India. It 
is, I think, certainly the I. scapiflora of Heyne and Watucu, 
and, consequently of Wieur and Arnorr: but the station 
of the plant does not seem to be known to those authors. 
Small specimens in our Herbarium were gathered by Mr. 
Macras at Kandy, Ceylon, and larger ones were sent to us 
from the same country by Mrs. Col. Waxxzr. These are 
probably the I. bulbosa of Moon’s Catalogue, and certainly 
the I. acaulis of Mr. Arnorr in the paper above quoted. 
There can, indeed, be no question about the identity of 
these: indeed the smaller Kandyan specimens are consid- 
ie by Mr. Arnorr himself to be the same with Hryne’s 
plant. 
Descr. Root consisting of small tubers, like those of 
many Breonim, a Genus of plants to which the present bears 
no inconsiderable resemblance in its leaves and inflores- 
cence, and especially in its succulent habit. Leaves all aris- 
ing from the root, roundish, cordate, glabrous, many-nerved, 
serrated, the teeth almost intramarginal, pointing upwards, 
tipped with a gland: the length of the leaf is about equal 
with that of the rounded petiole. Scape a span to eight or 
ten inches high, rounded, succulent, terminated by a ra- 
ceme of six to ten large, handsome, one-sided flowers. 
Bracteas solitary, ovato-cordate, concave, fleshy. Pedicels 
quite straight, patent, an inch and a half to two inches long. 
Sepals three : two lateral ones resembling the bracteas, but 
rather less fleshy, pale reddish-green : lower one white, 
ovate, concave, lengthened at its base into a slender spur, 
curved, between three to four inches in length. Upper 
petal white, helmet-shaped, covering the organs of fructifi- 
cation, the other four delicate purple-rose colour, spreading, 
all on the same plane, combined at the base into two pairs: 
of these four, the two lateral ones are oblong, singularly 
recurved like a sickle ; the two inner ones longer, straight, 
obliquely cuneate. Stamens five, white, combined by the 
anthers and upper part of the filaments. | Filaments dilated 
upwards. Anthers ovate, forming an obtuse cone above 
the pistil, opening internally by two longitudinal cells. 
Pollen white. Germen oval, with five furrows : Style short, 
conical, with three acute stigmas. 
ETO cea 
, Eig. 1. Calyx, lower Petal, Stamens, and Pistil. 2. Stamens and Pistil. 
3, Pistil: magnified. 
