Tas. 8276, 
PELIOSANTHES vionacma, var, CLARKET. 
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South-eastern Asia. 
Haxmoporackar. Tribe OpHtopoconrar. 
Pewrosanrues, Andr.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p 678 
Peliosanthes violacea, var. Clarkei, Baker in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. xvii. 
P. ere ; Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. vol. vi. p. 266; a typo floribus atropurpureis 
iffert. ; 
Herba, rbizoma breve. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, ad 30 em. longa, 
6 cm. lata, glaberrima, marginibus corneis leviter crenulatis; nervi 
primarii circa 20; nervi transversi numerosi, conspicui; petiolus 12-30 cm. 
Jongus; vaginae basilares membranaceae, brunneae. Hacemi circa 15 em. 
longi; flores solitares, atropurpurei ; bracteae oblongae, acuminatae, quam 
pedicelli longiores. Perianthiwm aperte campanulatum, 1 cm. diametro ; 
tubus 6-sulcatus; lobi oblongi, apice rotundati. Antherae ovatae, basi 
bilobae. Ovarium conicum; stylus columuaris, trisulcatus.—P. violaceu, 
Ridl. Journ. Str. Br. Roy. As. Soc. vol. xxxi. p. 96.—C. H. Wricur. 
The genus Peliosanthes includes about a dozen species, all 
of which are natives of South-eastern Asia. Three of these 
have already been figured in this work; /. Teta, Andr., at 
t. 1302, P. humilis, Andr., at t. 1532, and P. albida, Baker, 
at t. 7110. The first of these, which has its flowers fascicled 
in the axils of the bracts, has an unusually wide range ; it 
extends from the Eastern Himalaya throughout Western 
Indo-China to the Malayan Peninsula; throughout this area 
is subject to remarkably little variation. Among those 
species in which the flowers are solitary in the axils of the 
bracts, that compose the bulk of the genus, the only one 
which is credited with an equally wide range is P. violacea, 
Wall. In the case of this species, however, Mr. Baker 
recognises, in addition to the typical form, which has a deep 
violet perianth and is found in the Eastern Himalaya and 
in the mountains of Assam to the east of the Brahmaputra 
river, also extending to Lower Burma, three distinct 
varieties. Two of these, var. minor, with small green 
flowers and leaves that are only 5-7-nerved, and var. 
SepremBeEr, 1909, 
