cxxvi. scitaminejE. 739 



3-4 in. long; rhacliis pubescent; bracts small, ovate. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, 

 ^-^ in. long. OoroUa-segments ^ in. long. Lip 1-lJ iu. Icng, ovate-oblong, sessile, 

 yellow, streaked with purple veins, emarginate. Ovary densely pubescent ; ovules 

 many in each cell. Capsules globose, red. PI. B. I. v. 6, p. 254; Wight, Icon. t. 2028 

 (by error in Tab. A. nutans) : Grab. Oat. p. 206 ; Dalz. & Gibs. p. 274 ; Trim. Fl. Ceyl. 

 V. 4, p. 249 ; K. Sebum, in Engler, Ptlanzenreich, v. 4, part 46 (1904) p. .'538 ; Watt, 

 Diet. Econ. Prod. v. 1, p. 192. 



The plant is a native of China and the S. Malay Peninsula and is also given for 

 Ceylon and the S. Konkan in Hook. f. Fl. B. I. 1. c. Trimen {I. c.) says he has not 

 seen the plant in Ceylon otherwise than in gardens, while the only authority for its 

 presence in the S. Konkan is Nimmo ex Graham (Cat. PI. Bo. 1. c). DalzoU & Gibson 

 have not found the plant wild, neither have aiay other Bombay botanists. I think 

 therefore that its existence as a wild plant in the Konkan is very problematical. 



10. PHRYNIUM, Willd. 

 Herbs usually with creeping rootstocks. Leaves large, oblong, 

 radical ; petioles long, sheathing, simulating stems, ilowers in spikes 

 produced from the side of the petiole or direct from the rootstock ; 

 bracts 2-more-flowered. Sepals 3, narrow. Corolla-tube cylindric, 

 shorter or scarcely longer than the calyx ; lobes linear-oblong, subequal, 

 spreading. Staminal-tube longer than the corolla-tube ; segments 

 unequal, petaloid, one bearing a single marginal anther-cell. Ovary 

 3-celled ; ovule usually solitary in each cell (rarely 2 of the cells empty) ; 

 style adnate below to the staminal-tube, free and hooked above; stigma 

 capitate or funnel-shaped. Fruit subglobose, indehiscent or tardily 

 rupturing. Seeds 1-3, erect ; aril short, fleshy ; embryo curved. — 

 DiSTRiB. Species about 20, iu the Tropics of the Old World. 



Leaves 6-10 by 2-3 in. ; flowers white, in short radical spikes ... 1. P. sjnccdum. 

 Leaves 12-18 by 6-8 in. ; flowers purplish, in capitate spikes 



sessile on the side of the petiole above the middle 2. V . ccqntaium. 



1. Phrynium spicatum, Uoxh. Hort. Beng. (1814) p. 1. Eoot- 

 stock widely creeping, perennial, not tuberous. Leaves 2-4, oblong, 

 6-10 by 2-3 in., caudate-acuminate, base rounded ; petioles slender, 

 much longer than the blade. Flowers white, in short spikes 1-1 1 in. 

 long ; bracts | in. long, ovate, green. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, about 

 1 in. long. Corolla-tube | in. long; lobes oblong, obtuse, | in. long. 

 Larger staminodes spathulate, \ in. long, the inner much smaller. 

 Stamen with a rather large appendage. Fruit 3-seeded. Seeds | in. 

 long, 3-quetrous on the inner face, dull brown. Fl. B. I. v. 6, p. 259 ; 

 Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) p. 521. Stachyphrynium 

 spicatum, K. Schum. in Engler, Pflanzenreich, v. 4, part 48 (1902) p. 46. 



Rare. Konkan : Law ! — Distrib. Pegu. 



2. Phrynium capitatum, Willd. Sp. PI. v. 1 (1797) p. 17. Eoot- 

 stock tuberous, with many fleshy root-fibres. Leaves 12-18 by 6-8 in., 

 oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, smooth on both sides, ba^e 

 rounded or cuneate ; midrib slender ; veins many, arched ; petioles 

 2-3 ft. long, stout, terete ; sheaths long, green. Flowers purplish, in 

 capitate spikes 1^-2 in. in diam., sessile on the side of the petiole above 

 the middle ; outer bracts 2-3 at the base of the spike, large, rigid, with 

 incurved scarious tips, breaking up into tufts of fibres ; inner bracts 

 closely imbricate, oblong, acute, 2-4-flowered ; pedicels short. Sepals 

 I in. long, linear, hairy. Corolla about 1 in. long ; tube slender, funnel- 

 shaped above ; segments 3, purple, spathulate, recurved, the tips hairy. 



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