194 Linnaan Society. 



Ihium 3 — 5-sepaluni, cestivatione valvatum. Stamina totidem opposita, 

 monadelpha, bilocularia (in unica specie multilociilaria). Flores fcemi- 

 nei : Ovaria stipitata, receptaculis apice incrassato glandiilosis alHxa, 

 nuda. Stylus setaceus, persistens. Sli(/?na inconspicuuni. Fnictus 

 pistillifovmes, sicci. 



pH.5iocouDYLis, Griff. 



Sexus diclines. Flores masculi ignoti. Flores foeminei : Ovaria in axi 

 sessilia, nuda, pilis paraphysiformibus immixta. Stylus filifovmis, ex- 

 sertus, deciduus. Stigma subcapitatum. Fructus compressi (striati) apice 

 subpapillosi, 



Of Balanophora he describes as new five species with the follow- 

 ing characters : — 



B. BURMANNicA, squamis laxe imbricatis, bracteis truncatis pariim cana- 

 liculatis, perianthio masculo extus carneo demum sanguineb, colnmna 

 staminum elongata, antherarum locelHs basi discretis. 



Hab. in Regno Burmannico, ad fl. Sahieen. 



B. AFFiNis, squamis et bracteis prgecedentis, floribus (masculis) pallidis, 

 columna staminum brevi subrotunda, locellis antherarum basi conflu- 

 entibus. 



Hab. in Collibus Khasiyanis. 



Praecedenti minor ; an vere distineta ? 



B. AtvEOLATA, squamis arete imbricatis, bracteis profunde canaliculatis 



inter se favi instar dispositis, cohunna staminum subrotunda. 

 B. dioica, R. Br. in Royle, Illustr. p. 330. t.99? 

 Nab. in CoUibus Khasiyanis. 



B. picTA, squamis distantibus laxis (hiteis), spied foemined obscure san- 



guinea. 

 JIab. in Montibus Mishmee jngi Himalayani. 



B. (Polypletia) polyandka, columna staminea brevi latii, antlieris inde- 



finilis 1-locularibus. 

 Hab. in ColHbus Khasiyanis. 



With reference to these species Mr. Griffith enters at considerable 

 length into their anatomical and external structure, and in the course 

 of his observations directs attention to the resemblance of the pistilla 

 to the pistilla of Musci, and more especially to those of some evaginu- 

 late Hepaticae, and to the effects produced by the action of the pollen 

 on the styles. " Indeed," he observes, " in the development of the 

 female organ, the continuous surface of the style before fecundation, 

 and its obvious perforation after, Balanophora presents a direct affi- 

 nity to a group of plants, with which otherwise it has not a single 

 analogy." On this ground he objects to the association of Balano- 

 phorece with such highly developed families as Rafflesiacece and Cy- 

 tinece. " As a mere hypothesis," he adds, " I would consider it as 

 the homogeneous-embryo form of Urticincc, forming a direct passage 

 in one, and usually the more perfect, structure to Musci and Hepa- 

 iica." 



Of Phceocordylis (a name used by him to prevent confusion, as he 

 has not sufficient knowledge of Dr. Wallich's plant to determine 

 whether his genus is the same as that doubtfully proposed in Dr. 

 "Wallich's list under the name of Sarcocordylis) he describes and 



