Burtnannia.] Burmanniacea . 1 3 r 



2. B. coelestis, Don, Prod. FI. Nep. 44 (1825). 



B. pusilla, var. /3, Thw. Enum. 325. B. trijlora, Roxb. Moon, Cat. 24 



C. P. I'KX'i.. 



' Fl. B. ind. V. 665. Royle, 111. Bot. Himal. t. 91, f. I. Griff. Ic. Pi 

 Asiat. t. 272, f. I {B. azurea). 



Whole plant 4-8 in. high, very slender, leafy at the base or 

 nearly leafless; radical 1, few, short, subulate, rarely \ in. long; 

 fl. solitary, or, if 2-3, one sessile central, the other peduncled, 

 \'-\ in. long, oval orbicular or obcordate in outline ; bracts 

 minute, subulate ; cal.-tube very short above the ov., lobes 

 triangular, dorsally keeled ; pet. minute ; capsule with the 

 withered perianth \-\ in. long, wings 3, rounded, truncate or 

 retuse at the top. 



Var. /3, pusilla, Trim. B. pusilla^ Thw. Enum. 325 (excl. var. /3). 

 C. P. 3023. 



Gonyanthns pusilla., Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. t. 38, f. 3. 



Stem 2-6 in., 1. very few, radical \ in. ; fl. \ in. long. 



Swampy places, chiefly in the low country, rarely up to 4000 ft. ; 

 rather rare. Kalutara; Kukul Korale ; Nilgala, Uva; Maskeliya. Var. /3, 

 Trincomalie (Glenie) ; Hewesse. Fl. December-March, August; pale 

 sky-blue. 



India, Burma, Andaman Is., China, Malaya, N. Australia, Mauritius. 



Var. j8 is kept as a separate species in Fl. B. Ind., but seems to be 

 merely a dwarf nearly or quite leafless state. B. Candida., Griff., is given 

 for Ceylon in Fl. B. Ind., but I suspect by error, the locality belonging 

 to the previous species, B. pusilla., Thw. The species are scarcely 

 distinct. — Trinien. 



3. B. Ch^implonil, Thw. Enum. 325 (1864). [Plate LXXXVII.] 

 Fl. B. Ind. V. 666. C. P. 2735. 



Whole plant 4-6 in., rather stout, colourless, or cal.-Iobes 

 pale brown ; base of stem usually tortuous and more or less 

 covered with root fibres ; 1. o, or a few distant scales on the 

 stem ; fl. crowded on the branches of a very short forked 

 cyme, \-\ in. long, narrowly ovoid-oblong in outline ; bracts 

 small, lanceolate; cal.-tube twice or thrice as long as the 

 trigonous wingless ov., lobes ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, punctu- 

 late ; pet. much smaller, linear, truncate, punctulate ; anth. 

 half way down the tube, connective thick, 3-toothed at the 

 top, cells globose. 



Moist region below 1000 ft.; rare, growing amongst moss, dead leaves, 

 &c., on rocks in shady streams. Karawita Kande, near R.itnapura ; 

 Mandagala Forest, Hewesse; Hiniduma; Palabadulla, Sa aragamuw-i. 

 Fl. March-May ; white. 



Endemic. 



A saprophyte ; the whole plant is milk-white and very delicate. 

 There are good drawings and description by Champion in Herb. Kew. 

 The Bornean B. tuberosa, Becc. (Male?ia 1. 245, t. 14, f. 1-4) is very 

 closely allied. 



