ON THE GENUS HEDYCHIUM. 27 



set by Mr. Browu iu his Prudromus, and also applied by him to 

 the next following species, I enter our plant for the present as a 

 subgenus, differing on the points I have noticed above. The per- 

 sistent calyx crowns the capsule in the form of a curved tube, 

 having its mouth cleft on one side, and three-toothed on the other, 

 according to Dr. Wight's instructive and detailed plate. Both 

 the bracts and calyx seem to me to be of a more firm substance 

 than is usual in our genus, and the corolla, too, participates in 

 some degree of that character. The tube is very long, the limb 

 comparatively short, the inner much broader. Filament very 

 short. Tlie sheath-like petioles seem to point out at their being 

 imbricate in the early stage of the plant, and as there are a few 

 (subsessile ones) on the stem, according to Dr. Wight, the latter 

 cannot properly be called a scapus. In M. Jacquemont's 

 specimen all the leaves are radical. There is no ligula. 

 Mr. Dalzell says that the plant is handsome, with white scent- 

 less flowers. The leaves, and still more the flowers, are marked 

 with many miimte glandular round dots. 



D. Brachychihim, Brown, MSS. Labellum nanum retusum 

 sessile. Stigma bilabiatum, labio inferiore triplo longiore. 



•>!;J. H. (Brachychilum) Horsfieldii, Brown, MSS. ; glabrum, 

 foliis lanceolatis acuminatis, spica laxiuscula, bracteis ovatis 

 2 — 3-floris, tubo gracili, limbi interioris laciniis lateralibus 

 ovalibus obtusiusculis, exteriores lanceolatas acutas latitu- 

 dine triplo excedentibus. 

 Wild in Java on Mount Prahu. 



The delicacy of the flower is that of a Monolophus, but in all 

 other respects our plant has the appearance of a Hedychium, with 

 this striking difference, that the labellum is exceedingly small, 

 so as to be hidden almost from sight, and consists of a very short 

 broad concave retuse body. 



