Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 73 



Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 666. Trimen. Flora of Ceylon Vol. IV 

 p. 131, PL 87. 



Selangor : Damp woods on the Labu river (Ridley). Distrib. 

 Ceylon. 



This plant grows deeply sunk among decaying leaves. It is closely 

 allied to B. tubcrosa Becc. but is distinguished by its stouter habit, the 

 rhizome covered with scaly leaves, larger bracts and flowers. 



2. Gymnosiphon, Bl. 



Saprophytes, with slender branched or simple stems small scale 

 like leaves and small flowers in a short raceme, or cyme. Perianth 

 tube cylindric not winged. Sepals broad. Petals smaller or absent. 

 Anthers 3 oblong sessile near the mouth of the perianth tube, connective 

 broad with no appendages. Style shortly trifid. Ovary unilocular. 

 Capsule oblong or globose, crowned with the persistent lower half of 

 the tube. Seeds subglobose fusiform rugose. 



Species 12 chiefly South American, 1 African, 2 or 3 Malayan. 

 G. aphyllum Bl. Enum. PI. Java p. 29. 



Stem wiry whitish, branched 4-5 inches tall. Leaves few ovate 

 lanceolate or ovate, blunt i inch long. Flowers few thin pale violet 

 tV inch long on slender pedicels & inch long. Perianth tube very short. 

 Sepals ovate acute. Petals minute linear lanceolate. Capsule cylin- 

 dric, reticulate below, and the enlarged perianth tube above. Seeds 

 elliptic ovoid inaequilateral, dark brown ribbed. Mip. Fl. Nederl. Ind. 

 Vol. 3, p. 615. 



G. bomecnse, Becc. Males. I. 241, t. 14, fig. 5-9. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah, etc. (Ridley) ; Johor : Batu Pahat (Kel- 

 sall) ; Malacca : Sadanen (Ridley) ; Pahang : Taka Tahan (Ridley) ; 

 Selangor : Petaling ; Kedah : Gunong Jerai (Ridley). Distrib. Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo and Papua. 



In damp woods common but sporadic. 

 3. THISMIA, Griff. 



Fleshy saprophytes, with a creeping rhizome and ascending stem 

 a few inches tall with scale-like leaves, and 1 or 2 terminal flowers 

 rather large for the plant. Perianth tube campanulate or turbinate 

 falling off completely as the fruit ripens. Sepals and petals usually 

 elongate lanceolate acuminate ' or caudate, similar or differing in size 

 and form. Petals similar. Stamens 6 adnate to the tube, filaments 

 very short, connectives broad and often connate by the edges, deflexed. 

 Style short and thick, stigmas very small. Ovary turbinate 1 locular. 

 Capsule fleshy, opening by a deciduous lid. Seeds very numerous ob- 

 long ribbed. 



Species 12-15. Tropical Asia and South America. 



