48 MR. J. MIERS ON THE FAMILY OF TRIURIACEÆ. 
1. ScIAPHILA TENELLA, Blume, Bijdr. 514; “tenerrima carnosa aphylla, scapo simplicissimo 
erecto, floribus nutantibus, perigonii laciniis reflexis apice villosiusculis, stigmate 
sessili punctiformi, baccis pluribus glandulis pellucidis tectis, semine sub-triquetro ; 
testà subcoriaceà." 
Hab. Java. N 
Obs. Nothing is known of this plant beyond the above description; it was placed by 
Endlicher among the doubtful genera at the end of his order Artocarpee, with the remark, 
** affinitas plané obscura.” 
2. SCIAPHILA MACULATA; hyalina, caule simplici, foliis. bracteiformibus adpressis lineis 
interruptis rubris maculatis, perianthii laciniis sublanceolatis reflexis apice intüs bar- 
batis: alternis margine ciliatis, floribus inferioribus staminibus 3 cassis ?, carpellis 
densissimé congestis, utriculo hiante. 
Hab. in insulis Philippinis; Cuming, No. 2088. 
This plant has a very slender erect stem, and is altogether about 3 inches in height ; the 
flowers are alternate and nodding, upon filiform pedicels, 3 lines in length, each with a 
bract at base; the size of the cauline leaflets is half a line long: the spike forms two- 
thirds of the length of the whole plant. The structure of the seed has already been 
described: the length of each utricle is 35th of an inch; the included caryopsis is th 
long, „sth broad; the testa is sth long, „45th inch broad: the size of each cell of the 
nucleus is about 75th of its breadth, or 415th inch in diameter. 
3. SCIAPHILA PICTA; hyalina, caule subramoso erecto flexuoso, foliis bracteiformibus ma- 
culis longis rubris pictis, perianthii laciniis oblongis acutis patentibus rubro-maculatis 
apice intüs barbatis: alternis sub-latioribus ciliatis; tubo basique laciniarum lineis 
punctatis creberrimis violaceis ornatis, floribus hermaphroditis (an semper ?), carpellis 
plurimis densissimé supra discum carnosum congestis staminibus 2 vel unico munitis. 
Hab. in Venezuela, ad fluv. Apure, à cl. Purdie lect. Octob. 1845. 
i A single specimen only of this plant exists in the herbarium of Sir William Hooker, and 
is about 5 inches in height; it is dichotomous, throwing up from near the base two sub- 
flexuose erect stems, with short, few-flowered, terminal spikes; the pedicels are scarcely 
2 lines long, the flowers are very minute, and drooping. | | 
4. SCIAPHILA ERUBESCENS ; hyalina tenerrima, foliis bracteiformibus bracteisque acutis 
rubro-pictis, floribus punctis rubris maculatis, perianthii laciniis æqualibus oblongis 
acutis. glaberrimis reflexis ; superioribus masculis ; inferioribus fœmineis interdum 
hermaphroditis, staminibus 3 cassis ?, utriculo bivalvi. : 
Aphylleia erubescens, Champ. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 468. 
Hab. Ceylon, ad Narawalla, prope Galle, in sylvis umbrosis. ; 
This plant is about the size of S. picta, 
soon as the first has matured all its seeds. 
long spots, become purplish when the fruit 
sanguineous red, and covered with prominent 
throwing up from the base a second scape, as 
The flowers, which are hyaline, with reddish 
is well formed; the ovaries and utricles are 
pellucid areoles ; the bracts and leaflets are 
