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basi columnae stamineae aduatum. Filamenta coadunata , longe 

 exserta, antherae 3, 2 — 4 loculares, arete cohaerentes apice 

 dehiscentes. Fl. 9 oblongae, compressae; perianthio bilabiato; 

 stylis 2 elongatis , ovulo 1 pendulo. Fructus lineari-v. ovato- 

 oblongus, turgidus. Semen Holoseos^). 



1. Uhopalocnemis phalloides Junghuhn , in Nov. Act. Acad. 

 Caes.2) Nat. Cur. vol. XVIII Suppl. p. 215, Tab. XII. 



Phaeocordi/lis areolata Griff, in Linn. Soc. Trans. XX, p. 100 

 t. 8 descript. incompl. Hab. sylvis Acaciae montibus Ins. Javae. 

 alt. 7000 ped. (Junghuhn !) Sylvis densis montium Khasiae et 

 Himalayae orientalis et Sikkim alt. 6000 — 8000 ped. (Griffith, 

 Thomson, I. D. H.) Fl. Juli— Sept. '). 



This most remarkable plant has been much misunderstood, 

 both by the author of the genus Junghuhn and more recently 

 by Griffith. From Junghuhn's description it is probable that his 

 specimens were most imperfect and perhaps covered with mould. 

 The museum at Kew is indebted to Prof, de Vriese of Leyden 

 for beautiful Javanese specimens of both sexes, which being 

 authentically named , enabled me to recognize Junghuhn's plant 

 as identical with the Himalayan and Khasian one; and which 

 making allowance for the absence of male flowers and for his 

 erroneous description of the females, is also identical with the 

 Phaeocordylis of Griffith gathered at the same spot in the 

 Khasia mountains where Dr. Thomson and I procured an abun- 

 dant supply of specimens. 



Rhopalocnemis is by far the largest and the handsomest ot 

 the Helosideae, and it is the only one which I have had an 

 opportunity of examining in a living state; it is most closely 

 allied to Corynaea , differing in the presence of a volva and in 



the Unisexual capitula 



I have vainly tried to induce the 



ripe seeds to germinate and have examined many hundreds in 



1) Of this seed of Helosis Hookee says: Semen 1, achenio conforme, testa tenuis- 

 sima hyalina reticulata. 



2) This work of Junghuhn is here inaccessible to me. 



3) In Java it flowers from Jan. — March. 



