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tube obconic yellow, elevated ring prominent. Sepals and petals simi- 

 lar tringular terminated by cylindric tails much longer bright orange. 

 Anthers connate by the edges, connectives 3 toothed. Style moderate- 

 ly long thick scabrid. Stigmas very small. Capsule brown ribbed. 

 Seeds elliptic oblong ribbed. Ridley I.e. 336, Groom. Annals of Bot- 

 any Vol. IX. 327, PL 13, 14. 



Singapore : Woodlands (Beccari). Bukit Timah, Kranji, etc., 

 (Ridley) ; Pahang : Kota Glanggi (Ridley); Selangor : Petaling. The 

 commonest and most conspicuous species, often dotting the woods with 

 its small bright yellow starry blossoms. Endemic. 



5. Th. CHRYSOPS, Ridley Ann. Bot. IX. p. 323, t. XII. Plant 3 

 inches tall. Leaves few lanceolate acute scale-like. Flowers one or 

 two on short dark brown. Perianth tube obloug deflexed above the 

 ovary, dilated i inch long deep chocolate brown, ovary pink, raised 

 ring round tube mouth yellow. Sepals and petals filiform from a wider 

 base, deep brown ciliate. Anthers oblong connate, apices truncate with 

 short processes the two outer ones longer clubbed. Style short and 

 thick, arms linear bifid. Capsule turbinate rugose. Seeds fusiform ru- 

 gose. 



Malacca : Mount Ophir on rotten logs (Ridley). Endemic. 



1. Bagnisia, Becc. 



Fleshy saprophyte resembling Thismia but the sepals are spathu- 

 late and connate at the apices forming a dome over the mouth of the tube. 

 Petals suppressed. Stamens connate by the broad connectives, which 

 are perforate, or entire. Style short, stigma discoid 6 lobed. Fruit 

 as in Thismia. 



Species 3 or 4. Borneo and Malay Peninsula including Gcomitra 

 which seems hardly generically distinct. 



B. CROCEA, Becc. Malesia 1 249. T. XII. var, brunnea. Very 

 small saprophyte about an inch long with a stout rhizome, entirely red 

 hrown. Stem very short, with rather long lanceolate scale like leaves. 

 Bracts ovate. Flower solitary larger than the stem, perianth tube 

 enlarged upwards thick almost pear-shaped. Sepals linear connate over 

 the top of the tube. 



Perak. In dense woods on the Larut Hills below Gunong Hijau, 

 very rare. I only obtained a single specimen of this plant, and was 

 unable to preserve it properly. It is probably a variety of B. crocea 

 but is much smaller and of a different colour, and the tube of the peri- 

 anth is more swollen upwards. It should be looked for again. 



VII. TACCACEAE. 



Terrestrial herbs, with a very short stem or tuberous rhizome, and 

 entire or pinnatifid leaves. Scape usually tall, leafless. Flowers 



