Burmannia,| CXXI. BURMANNIACEE. . 397 
l. BURMANNIA, Linn. 
(Gonyanthes, Miers.) 
radical leaves or all the leaves rarely reduced to scales. Flowers 
sessile or pedicellate Rind the branches of a forked cyme, reduced 
sometimes to a sing: 
The s is common to the Si and the Old World. One and m ~ the 
nu species have a wide range over East India and the Archipe 
— leaves lanceolate. Flowers abigo in a once-forked cyme. 
anth at lea st twice: ^ MN 
small. v solitary o or few. Perianth 
with vm wings a as bead di as long 
disticha, Linn. Spee. mp Stems ia or scarcely branched, 
2 ft chi 
1. B. 
erect, glabrous, attaining 1 to . Leaves chiefly radical, sessile, 
sheathing | at the base, iC acute, spreading, all under 1 
1, B. disticha. 
2. B. juncea. 
E including the wings about 4 in. lit and deti 
the 3 outer lobes ovate, concave, not half so long as t 
«del i h 
d in. road 
he e, the 
va rt pedicel; inner lobes of the perianth 
oblong-linear, from half as ck to nearly as long as the outer ones. 
Anthers immediately under the inner lobes, the cells small, separated 
by a prominent connective, the dorsal appendages nearly as long as the ` 
cells. Capsule usually occupying about half the length of the era 
but sometimes continued higher up, opening at the "Er between the 
ridges with a — to splió transversely as observed "d Threda ue 
v Corom. Pl. t. 2 ^ B. distachya, R. Br. 
. Austr iverpool river, Gulliver.—A pring Ls specimen with only 
3 vem which however are Tib those of j^ disticha. 
N. es. Jackson, R. Brown, Woolls; New England, C. Stuart ; 
il river, Beckler ; "E of swamps, Tweed iones Q. Moor e, Guilfoyle. 
muncea, Soland. in R. Br. Prod. 265. Stems very sie na 
Medie filiform, 6 in. to ale 1 ~ high. Leaves few at the base of the 
| Stem, linear-filiform, ł to4in , and sometimes one or two smaller 
p es ‘hi igher up, but the stem pickin with only a few small distant 
. Scales, Flowers sometimes only one at the end of the stem, sometimes 
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