Tas, 8330. 
GAMOGYNE pvttcnra. 
Malaya. 
ARVIDEAE. Tribe PHILODENDREAE. 
Gamocyng, N. E. Br.; Benth. et Hook. 7. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 985. 
Gamogyne pulchra, N, 2. Br. in Kew Bull. 1910, p. 197; affinis G. Burbidgei, 
N. E. Br., sed pistillodiis basalibus, staminodiis deficientibus, stigmatibus 
rubris spathaque kermesina differt. 
Hlerba yerennis, acaulis, omnino glabra. J olia suberecta, petiolata; lamina 
- 8-17 cin. longa, 2-3°7 cm. lata, lanceolata, acuta, basi cuneato-acuia, supra 
viridis subtus pallidior; petiolus 5-9 cm. longus, teres, canaliculatis, basi 
breviter sed late vaginans. /edunculi erecti circiter 14 cm, longi, teretes, 
rufo-brunnei. Spatha subnutans, ellipsoidea, acuta, convoluta, apice 
tautum aperia, 4-4°5 ci, longa, 2 em. diametio, laete kermesina. Spadia 
quam spatha fere duplo brevior, inclusus, cylindraceus, obtusus, parte 
femilet quam pars mascula subduplo brevivre basi organis neutris (ovariis 
abortis) truncatis flavo-virentibus instructa, parte mascula parti femincae 
contigua staminodiis deficientibus. -Antherue oblongae, compressae, trun- 
catae, apice biporosae, flavescentes. Ovaria oblonga, truncata, connata 
stigmatibus puniceis sessilibus, l-locularia placentis duabus parietalibus 
et basalibus brevibus. Ovula plurima, erecta, suborthotropa, funiculis 
elongatis.— N. E. Brown. 
The plant now figured was received at Kew from tlhe 
Singapore Botanic Gardens in 1905 with the suggestion 
that it might be a form of Piptospatha Ridleyi, N. E. Br., 
figured at t. 7410 of this work; another species of the same 
genus, P. insignis, N. E. Br., is given at t. 6598. The two 
genera are indeed so closely allied as to be indistinguishable 
so far as any vegetative character is concerned. They are, 
however, readily discriminated when in flower because in 
Piptospatha the connective is produced and the ovaries are 
distinct, whereas in Gamogyne, the genus to which our 
plant belongs, the anthers are truncate and the ovaries are 
united. The plant figured has been grown on a small 
rockery in the Nepenthes house, where it has thriven well 
and has formed a sturdy tuft of leaves; it flowered for the 
first time in March, 1909, and thus enabled its generic 
position to be ascertained. As a garden plant Gamogyne 
pulchra is superior to either of the species of Piptospatha 
mentioned above, and in this respect is even preferable to 
its nearest ally, Gamogyne Burlidgei, N. E. Br., a Bornean 
Aveusr, 1910, 
