MR. W. FAWCETT ON NEW SPECIES OF BALANOPHORA. 235 
Rhizoma lobatum, ovi gallinacei-pugni magnitudine, minute verruculosum, epustu- 
latum. Volva irregulariter repando-dentata. Stipites florales 6-18 em. longi, pedun- 
culo cylindrico elongato, squamis imbricatis, 1-3 em. longis, a basi ad apicem gradatim 
accrescentibus lato-oblongis longe decurrentibus totum peduneulum obtegentibus. 
Capitula $ obovata, 3—4 ст. longa. Bracteæ margine ad apicem truncato crasso in favi 
speciem basi соппафе. Flores 4 7-8 mm. longi; perigonium 4-5-phyllum phyllis ovatis 
subzequalibus intus levibus. Antherarum capitulum ovoideo-oblongum, 3 mm. longum, 
thecis 4 hippocrepiformibus, rimis hippocrepiformibus dehiscentibus. Capitula 9 
oblonga-ovoidea, floribus in receptaculo nec ad spadicellos sessiles oblongo-obovatos 
dispositis. 
D. түрніха, Wall. no. 7248.—Mr. J. J. Bennett in a note to Griffith's paper “On the 
Indian species of Balanophora” (Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. p. 95) says that “ В. typhina, 
Wall. List. no. 7248, appears to be identical with В. picta, Griff.” a species which was 
afterwards placed under B. dioica, R. Br. There are several specimens on the sheet 
marked 7248 in the Wallichian Herbarium of the Linnean Society, but none of them is 
В. dioica. Those marked A and B are В. polyandra, Griff, and no. 3 appears to be 
В. indica, Wall. 
B. GrGANTEA, Wall.—In the same note, Mr. Bennett identifies, though doubfully, 
В. gigantea, Wall., with В. globosa, Jungh. There are very fine specimens of В. gigantea, 
Wall. in the British Museum Herbarium sent from Wallich to Robert Brown, which 
show that it differs from Junghuhn's species in the $ flowers being both on the spadicels 
aud receptacle, and in the form of the spadicels. The form of the ћес of the anthers 
is like that in B. indica, Wall., to which species it has a great resemblance, and may be 
a variety of it; it differs in the rhizome, which has no pustules, and is tesselated rather 
than warty. The following is a full description. 
B. gigantea, Wall. List. n. 7249; rhizomate composito-lobato hexagono-tesselato 
haud pustulato, squamis pedunculi laxis imbricatis, capitulis dioicis, antherarum 
thecis 4-6 hippocrepiformibus, rimis hippocrepiformibus dehiscentibus, floribus 
femineis ad spadicellos et in receptaculo dispositis. 
Hab. Taong Dong, Burmah (Dr. Wallich). Herb. Mus. Brit. 
Rhizoma ut in В. abbreviata, sed tesselatum haud pustulatum. Spadices masculi, 
pedunculo incluso, 6-9 сш. longi; pedunculus 2-3 em. longus; squame laxe late 
oblongo-ovatze 1-5 ст. long, superioribus maximis capitulum involucrantibus. Capi- 
tulum в ovatum vel cylindricum, 3-6 cm. longum, bracteis liberis semilunatis 5-7 mm. 
longis, floribus pedicellatis patentibus, 12 cm. longis, lobis perianthii 4-5 omnibus 
oblongis. Antherarum capitulum compressum, thecis 4-6 hippocrepiformibus, rimis 
hippocrepiformibus dehiscentibus. Spadices feminei, peduncuto incluso, 7-13 cm. 
longi; peduneulus 4-10 сш. longus; squamz numerose late ovate laxæ patentes. 
Capitulum $ subglobosum 2-3 em. longum. Flores $ longe pedicellati in receptaculo et 
ad stipites spadicellorum oblongo-truncatorum dispositi. p 
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