2029. KÆMPFERIA ROTUNDA (Willd.), leaves ob- 
long, coloured: spike radical, appearing before the 
leaves ; lateral lobes of the corolla obovato-lanceolate, 
acute: lip deeply 2-cleft, lobes obovate, very obtuse, 
crest of the anther linear, forked, with a small toot 
between. = 
Malabar. 
The two figures in the accompanying plate may 
be distinet species, a point I cannot determine with 
my present materials, but I think it more probable 
they are but variations of the same. The lip in the 
nameless one, of which 1 have a coloured drawing, is 
a beautiful lilac, tending to plum colour. 
2030. Moworornmus scarosus (Dalzell Hedy- 
chium scaposum, Nimmo in Graham's Catalogue), 
stemless, root fibrous with small oblong tubers : leaves 
lanceolate, glabrous, long aeuminate ; petiol and limb 
of equal length; scape erect, round, about 2 feet long, 
sparingly leafy : spike terminal, compact, imbricated, 
many-flowered: flowers 2-3 to each common bract, 
each furnished with a smaller partial bract, opening 
in succession : common bracts lanceolate, shorter than 
the flowers; flowers long tubular: posterior lobe of 
the exterior perianth larger than the lateral ones: 
lip broad ovato-cordate, 2-cleft: anther terminating 
in a short obtuse crest: ovary 3-celled, placentas 
axile, capsule 3-celled, seed obovate embraced by a 
loose lobed aril, embryo axile, curved. 
Malabar Coast; Karlee, Nimmo; Malwan, Dalzell. 
Iam indebted to Dr. Stocks, for my specimen of 
this plant accompanied by flowers and fruit preserved 
in spirits for the analysis. It differs in some particu- 
lars from Wallieh's Monolophus, but not sufficiently, 
it appears to me, to justify its forming the type of a 
genus. I extract the following very accurate de- 
scription.of the flower, by Mr. Dalzell, from Hooker's 
Kew Garden Miscellany, vol.2, page 143. 
Calyx tubular, 3-toothed, cleft ; teeth obtuse, about 
equal. Corolla: tube cylindrical, curved, 4-5 times 
longer than the limb: two anterior exterior petals 
linear oblong, 5-7-nerved, flat; the posterior one 
sub-cucullate, mucronate, all reflexed during expan- 
sion: interior petals much larger, lip, the largest, 
broad obtuse, bifid at the apex. Filament very short, 
about a line long and broad, extended beyond the 
anther into a short rounded reflexed strap. Stigma 
funnel-shaped, tubercled on the back. 
2031-32. Litrom NEILGHERRENSE (R. W.), erect, 
leaves sessile, scattered, broad ovato-lanceolate, ab- 
ruptly acuminate, sub-cuspidate, glabrous: flower 
hypocrateriform, ascending; tube long, throat cam- 
panulate, naked; limb spreading: capsule obtusely 
3-angled, 3-sided.—In this species the leaves are about 
3 inches long by 14 broad, sub-cordate at the base. 
Neilgherries, flowering July and August. 
2033-34. Lirivw TUBIFLORUM (R. W.), leaves scat- 
tered, short petioled, narrow lanceolate, tapering to a 
point, glabrous: flowers ascending, hy poerateriform ; 
tube long, prominently ribbed along the sutures: 
throat campanulate, limb spreading, lobes somewhat 
revolute at the apex.—Leaves 4-6 inches long; 6-8 
lines broad. 
Neilgherries. à 
2035. Lirrum WALLICHIANUM (Rem. and Schult.), 
stem slender, leafy, few- or one-flowered at the apex : 
( 20 ) 
leaves scattered, numerous, approximated, linear, 
acuminate, sessile : flowers hypocrateriform, drooping ; 
tube long; throat campanulate, naked, limb spread- 
ing.—Leaves 2-3 inches long, scarcely + inch broad, 
lanceolate acute. 
. Neilgherries. All these species show a predilec- 
tion for rocky ground especially if kept humid by 
neighbouring springs. "They are very handsome 
plants and seem to merit more attention, as orna- 
mental objects, than they receive. 
Distinct as these three forms appear, I can scarcely 
expect they will prove, under cultivation, distinct 
species, but at the same time, with my present infor- 
mation, I do not feel justified in uniting them. In 
this state of uncertainty, I beg leave to solicit the 
attention of Mr. Mclvor, and any Botanists who may 
visit the Hills, to the subject. Mr. McIvor may 
perhaps be able to set the question at rest in a 
single, or at most two seasons, by raising plants from 
seed and ascertaining whether those taken from any 
of the forms run indiscriminately into all, or are con- 
stant to their parental form. The same experiments 
ought to be tried on plants obtained by dividing the 
roots, and grown under different circumstances. 
PHALANGIUM. 
In determining the genus to which I should refer 
the following plants, which, I presume, all belong to 
one genus, I felt much at a loss how to decide. Autho- 
rities are conflicting: and on endeavouring to trace 
the names back to their origin, I found the obscurity 
increase in place of diminish. Linnæus, in the first 
edition of his Genera Plantarum, had two genera— 
Bulbine and Anthericum, the former having bearded, 
the other beardless filaments. These he afterwards 
united, retaining Anthericum as the name of the en- 
larged genus. Jussieu in his Genera divided the 
genus into two, retaining Anthericum for the species 
with bearded filaments (the original Linnean Bul- 
bine), and restoring Tournefourt's Phalangium for 
the reception of those with beardless filaments. Since 
that time, these three genera have been taken up 
andlaid down, apparently at the will of each suc- 
cessive writer, and now there is no end of confusion 
in the synonyme. The characters, with the excep- 
tion of the filaments, are so nearly the same in all, 
that the only question for determination seems to be 
whether the filaments being beardless or bearded 
affords a sufficient generic distinction, for if so, then 
by going back to originals we get at a definite nomen- 
elature. It is now to be regretted that Jussieu, in re- 
storing the original Linnean genera, did not adopt his 
original names, which would have saved much trouble 
to his followers, a course the more desirable as at 
the time he restored the generic name Phalangium 
to Botany,it was already established as a generic 
name in Zoology, a circumstance I overlooked when, 
following Kunth, I adopted the Jussieuan name in 
preferenee to the complex Linnean one. But for this 
oversight I should undoubtedly have fallen back on 
the nomenclature of the Ist edition of Linnæus' 
Genera Plantarum, adopting Bulbine for those species 
with bearded filaments, and Anthericum for the follow- 
ing ones which have them beardless; for I consider 
these characters which are very constant, as of suf- 
ficient value to divide the group of species, associated 
under the latest Linnean Anthericum, into two good 
genera. Linnæus' generic character of Anthericum, 
in the later editions of his Genera and Species Plan- 
ANTHERICUM. BULBINE. 
