316 AN ATTEMPT TO DEFINE 
Ghats dictum, Dalz. in Herb. Hook. Palud. a Karle ad Kandolam, 
Jacquemont in Herb. Hook. fil. e Museo Parisiano. 
With exception of the somewhat crested anther and the tuberous 
root, this very remarkable plant has no striking affinity in character 
or habit to Monolophus, or Kempferia either, and it wants altogether 
the delicate texture of their flowers. To Hedychium it comes much 
nearer. Following the example first set by Mr. Brown in his Prodro- 
mus, and also applied by him to the next following species, I enter our 
plant for the present as a subgenus, differing on the points I have 
noticed above. The persistent calyx crowns the capsule in the form of 
a curved tube, having its mouth cleft on one side, and three-toothed 
on the other, according to Dr. Wight’s instructive and detailed plate. 
Both the bracts and calyx seem to me to be of a more firm substance 
than is usual in our genus, and the corolla, too, participates in some 
degree of that character. The tube is very long, the limb compara- 
tively short, the inner much broader. Filament very short. The 
sheath-like petioles seem to point at their being imbricate in the early 
stage of the plant, and as there are a few (subsessile ones) on the stem, 
according to Dr. Wight, the latter cannot properly be called a scapus. 
In M. Jacquemont’s specimen all the leaves are radical. There is no 
ligula. Mr. Dalzell says that the plant is handsome, with white scent- 
less flowers. The leaves, and still more the flowers, are marked with 
many minute glandular round dots. 
D. Brachychilum, Brown, MSS. Labellum nanum retusum sessile. 
Stigma bilabiatum, labio inferiore triplo longiore. 
23. H. (Brachychilum) Zorsfieldii, Brown, MS. ; glabrum, foliis lan- 
ceolatis acuminatis, spicá laxiusculà, bracteis ovatis 2-3-floris, tubo 
gracili, limbi interioris laciniis lateralibus ovalibus obtusiusculis, ex- 
teriores lanceolatas aeutas latitudine triplo excedentibus. 
Patria. Mons Prahu Javz, Horsfield in Herb. Banks. i 
I am indebted to my illustrious friend Mr. Brown, for the following 
details of the inflorescence of this most singular plant, which I have 
copied from the original manuscript, lent to me on purpose, and which 
was written in 1815, when Dr. Horsfield sent the specimen from Java 
to the late Sir Joseph Banks. 
Planta elegans glabra, rhizomatosa, juxta specimen unicum in herba- 
rio citato circiter bipedalis. Folia punctis lineolisque longitudinalibus 
creberrimis notata. Tigulæ perquam tenues, rotundato-obtusæ. Calyx 
