PHRYNIUM. 409 
basi leviter decurrens, venis oblique arcuatis subtus glauco- 
albidis striatis. 
Scapi radicalis vix ultra pedales (rhizomat.) Pedunculi 
bracteis 1-3, albis, scarioso-membranaceis laxis sursum ma- 
jorifactis reconditis. 
Spica florifer basi bractea subfoliacea oblonga apice non 
recurva vacua, accedunt. bractee bifarie, apice rotundate 
recurve, florifere more Curcume. 
Flores aggregati per paria in sinu bracteoli albi membrana- 
cec in sinu bractez recondite breviter pedicellati. 
Calyces laciniz albz angustz lineares tubo 3 breviores. 
Tubus angustus cylindraceus, bracteze os subzequans, 
Per. exterius, tripartitum basi infundibuliformum lacinis 
lateralibus revoluto-reflexis, postico erecto-oblongis. 
Interius irregulare lob. 2 majoribus concavis venosis: l- 
lateral, l-antica, 2- minor, magis carnosis concavis apicibus 
luteis, laterali precedentibus altera, cum anthera connata, 
altero inter segment. per. internum anticum et laterali extrors. 
Filam ? dilatatum rotundato-obtusum, posticum lateri sinis- 
tro (looking at the flower from the front.) Anther filam. libero 
brevi, loculo uno pollinifero longit. dehiscente, altero petaloideo 
more supra dicto connato, between its base and the concave 
back it is inereased by a tooth. 
Stylus lutescens, curvato robusto connato cum tubo peri- 
anth. Stigma convex fere deorsum geniculata. 
Ovarium 3-loculare, loculis medio ovulatis, ovul. o erectis 
solitariis, raphe next the axis. 
Has. Malacca in dense wet jungles at Ching. 
From this it would seem that the right lateral segment of 
the inner perianth is wanting, that the left lateral stamen is 1- 
locular, the right petaloid, and the posticous fleshy-petaloid. 
So that this is a very complex plant indeed. 
It appears to be a Phrynium, (P. spicatum) but certainly does 
not cerrespond with the character in Endlicher, and I think it 
likely that the same importance is to be attached to the in- 
forescence in this family as in Scitaminez. 
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