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peduneulo, patentes, circiter 4-pollicares, bracteis plurimis brunneis, ovato-lanceolatis. 
Flores breviter pedicellati tres, in bractea magna, pollicem longa, 3 pollicem lata. 
Bracteole 2 tenuiores, bicarinatee, bifidze, flores singulos involventes. Sepala linearia 
subulata, ultra i-pollicaria. Corolla alba, tubo curvo, superne dilatato, nee tenui; 
lobis oblongis, apicibus rotundatis obtusis, breviusculis, recurvis. Stamen appendice 
oblongo. Stylus abrupte recurvus, crassus. Capsula oblonga, obtuse trigona, #-роШ- 
caris, pedicello + pollicem longo, loculis 3, semen in loculo singulum elongatum 
(haud maturum). 
Tahan woods in a damp spot, in dense jungle, forming a thick bed. "There were many 
` wild animals here, and what appeared by the tracks to be a tapir had made a pathway 
through the thickets and eaten the plant. 
The habit of this plant is that of P. Griffithii, Baker, but it is remarkable for having 
the spikes panicled on the top of a strong erect peduncle which rises from the petiole. 
Тһе bloom was nearly over and, as in all these plants, very fugacious, and the fruit was 
hardly ripe. 
LowiacE&. 
PROTAMOMUM, п. gen. 
Herba ceespitosa, acaulis. Folia disticha petiolata, petiolis ferme pedalibus, lamina 
lanceolata acuminata, tenuiter coriacea, nervis ferme exacte parallelis, primariis 
circiter 14. Anthela axillaris, panieulata, decumbens, ramis 2-3, undique bracteis 
tecta. Flores in ramis singulatim expansi, bini in bracteolis. Bracteolæ 2, inferior 
oblonga, mucronata, brevis, superior longior, 1i-pollicaris, oblongo-lorata, mucro- 
nata, striata, viridis, tubum solidum floris involvens. Sepala 3, linearia, acuminata 
acuta. Petala 3, sepalis alterna ; 2 oblonga, erecta, parallela, mucronata ; 1 (labellum) 
ellipticum obtusum, basi angusía. Stamina 5, petalis alterna, brevia, }-pollicaria ; 
anthera curva obtusa, loculis 2 parallellis linearibus, tenuibus, longitudinaliter fissis, 
exappendiculata, apice emarginato recurvo. Pollen granulosum, granulis majusculis 
globosis. Filamenta validula, basibus incrassatis, connatis. Stylus crassus, basi dila- 
tata, staminibus subsequalis, stigma magnum, postice trilobum, lobis dentatis, antice 
excavatum. Capsula majuscula, lanceolata acuminata subtrigona, glabra, trilocularis. 
Semina in loculo tria, serie una, majuscula, lageniformia, brunnea, hispida. 
P. MAXILLARIOIDES, n. sp. (Pl LXVI) Herba sylvestris. Folia plura disticha, 
erecta, petiolis pedalibus, majore parte vaginantibus et marginatis, superne teretibus, 
canalieulo excepto ; laminis lanceolatis acuminatis, 8 pollices longis, 3 pollices latis, 
læte viridibus, fasciis transversis obscurioribus indistinctis, carina preesertim ad basin 
distineta; nervis primariis circiter 14, parallelis, rectis; secundariis tenuissimis, 
plurimis nervis transversis, perplurimis tenuibus. Inflorescentia a vagina petiol 
ad basin inclusa axillaris, 3 pollices longa, ramis 2—8, bracteis arcte involutis. Flores 
mediocres; sepala 11 pollices longa, 1 pollicem lata, angusta acuta mucronulata, 
translucentia, nitida, atro-rubentia, patentia, tubus infra limbum solidus. Petala 3; 
2 postica erecta, pistillo gequilonga, oblonga obliqua, mucronulata, valvata, violacea, 
"pollicem longa. Labellum porrectum, unguiculo brevi, atro-purpureo, oblongo, 
lamina oblonga obtusa, violascenti-alba, maculis violaceis punctata, fascia mediana 
