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tuberous, sending out a number of fibres. Leaves nearly ——— 
two feet long, numerous, radical, erect, petiolate, ovato- 
lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth. Petioles sheathing at the 
base. Scape erect, round, nearly as long as the leaves, 
striated, smooth. Flowers peduncled, all drooping to one 
side; peduncles subumbellate, arranged transversely in two 
parallel rows, and uniting into a kind of crest, from which 
proceed ten long, pendulous filaments. Jnvolucre 2-leaved; 
leaflets ovate, acute, broad at the base, nervose, purplisb, 
twice as long as the peduncles, the upper one erect, the 
lower reflexed and bent down by the drooping flowers. 
From within the upper leaflet of the involucre spring two erect 
folioles, which are twice as long as the involuere, obovate, 
attenuated below into straight, flat, deep-purple, petiolar 
ungues, aeute at the apex, pale-coloured, with purplish 
nerves. Perianth superior, of a dark purple colour, cam- 
panulate and somewhat ventricose, rather contracted and 
. three-cornered at the mouth, where it is also striated; limb | 
6-parted, somewhat reflexed; lacinie hyaline, oblong, broad, 
obtuse, the three interior ones larger. Corolla none. Stamens 6, z 4 
in the bottom of the perianth, and opposite to the lacinie. 
Filaments broad at the base, arching upwards into a vaulted 
cucullus, within which the anthers are concealed. Anthers — 
adnate, 2-lobed. Style thick, shorter than the stamens, with 
six prominent angles. Stigma flat, umbilicate, orbicular, 6- — 1 
rayed, 3 alternate sinuses deeper. Berry ovate, 6-angled, — 
l-celled ; seeds numerous, attached to three parietal recep- 
tacles. «ORE 
Oss. This approaches to T. integrifolia, Curt. Bot. Mag. 
& 1488; but is a much larger plant, and abundantly dis- 
 tinguished by the 2-leaved involucre, the long erect leaflets 
within it, and the flowers drooping to one side. 
. VERATRUM? MALAYANUM. VW. J. E. 
Foliis radicalibus lanceolatis, scapis erectis verticillato-pani- 
. eulatis, baccis trilocularibus. 
Native of Pulo Penang.—An erect, herbaceous plant. 
