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tuberous, sending out a number of fibres. Leaves nearly 

 two feet long, numerous, radical, erect, petiolate, ovato- 

 lanceolate, acute, entire, smooth. Petioles sheathing at the 

 base. Scape erect, round, nearly as long as the leaves, 

 striated, smooth. Flowers peduncled, all drooping to one 

 side; peduncles subumbellate, arranged transversely in two 

 parallel rows, and uniting into a kind of crest, from which 

 proceed ten long, pendulous filaments. Involucre 2-leaved ; 

 leaflets ovate, acute, broad at the base, nervose, purplish, 

 twice as long as the peduncles, the upper one erect, the 

 lower reflexed and bent down by the drooping flowers. 

 From within the upper leaflet of the invoiucre spring two erect 

 folioles, which are twice as long as the involucre, obovate, 

 attenuated below into straight, flat, deep-purple, petiolar 

 ungues, acute at the apex, pale-coloured, with purplish 

 nerves. Perianth superior, of a dark purple colour, cam- 

 panulate and somewhat ventricose, rather contracted and 

 three-cornered at the mouth, where it is also striated ; limb 

 6-parted, somewhat reflexed; laciniag hyaline, oblong, broad, 

 obtuse, the three interior ones larger. Corolla none. Stamens 6, 

 in the bottom of the perianth, and opposite to the lacinise. 

 Filaments broad at the base, arching upwards into a vaulted 

 cucullus, within which the anthers are concealed. Anthers 

 adnate, 2-lobed. Style thick, shorter than the stamens, with 

 six prominent angles. Stigma flat, umbilicate, orbicular, 6- 

 rayed, 3 alternate sinuses deeper. Berry ovate, 6-angled, 

 1-celled ; seeds numerous, attached to three parietal recep- 

 tacles. 



Obs. This approaches to T. integrifolia, Curt. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 1488; but is a much larger plant, and abundantly dis- 

 tinguished by the 2-leaved involucre, the long erect leaflets 

 within it, and the flowers drooping to one side. 



VERATRUM? MALAYANUM. W.J. 



Foliis radicalibus lanceolatis, scapis erectis verticillato-pani- 

 culatis, baccis trilocularibus. 



Native of Pulo Penang. — An erect, herbaceous plant. 

 Leaves radical, 3-4< feet long, petiolate, lanceolate, acuminate, 



