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plants, before the rhizoma is developed, the leaves are considerably smaller, propor- 

 tionally narrower, more rugose, and sometimes bullate. 



3. A. lance olatum (Hook. 1c. Plant, sub t. 157); foliis anguste 

 lanceolatis acutis siuuato-dentatis distanter nervosis superne glabris 

 nitidis subtus ad nervos adpresse pilosis. 



Hab. In Zeylanire montibus temperatis, Wight! Thwmte*i—{v. s.) 



Folia anguste spathulata vel fere linearia, 3-6 poll, longa, £ poll, lata, superne 

 argute sinuato-dentata, dentibus glandula apiculatis basin versus angustata dentibus 

 obtusioribus -.pet talis abbreviatis, alatis. Ivjlorescentia A. uniflori. Pedicelli 1-2- 



pollicares, laxe pateutini pilosi. 



This species is only known from a few very imperfect specimens in the Hookenan 

 Herbarium : these appear to be youug plants, the rhizoma being scarcely deve- 

 loped. There are traces of an inilorescence like that of the last species, but no 

 flowers in a state fit for examination. 



§ 2. Follicidis 1-2-spermis. 



4. A. costatum 



foliis obovatis basi sagittatis, race mis scapiformibus erectis laxis, brac- 

 teis lanceolatis lion iinbricatis, floribus breviter pedicellatis. — Wall. Cat. 

 1117 A ! A. Wightianuin, W. et A. Prod. i. 6 ; Wight! Ill i. 9. 



Hab. h\ Travancor, Wight!; Malaya, ad Penang et Singapur, Jack! 

 Wall.! — (v.s.) 



Rhizoma lignosum, subhorizontale. Folia 4-6 pollices longa, ^-2 lata, dentato- 

 serrata, scabra, superne secus costam inter nervos et versus marlines molliter pilosa, 

 subtus pallida, secus nervos adpresse-pilosa. Fc oil brevissimi, auriculati, vagi- 

 nantes. Scapi (cum pedice lis et calycibus) patentim pilosi, supra medium floriferi ; 

 pedicelli bracteis duplo lougiores. Sejkrfa |-polH«im« Stamina 15. Ovariahi- 

 ovulata, ovulis axi insertis collateralibus adscendentibus. 



The materials at the disposal of Wight and Arnott at the time of the publication 

 of the Prodromus were so imperfect that they did not discover that their specimens 

 belonged to two different species. One specimen (belonging to the present aperies), 

 which had good flowers and fruit, was employed for the analysis of the flowers given 

 in the Prodromus, but all the others belonged to A. Arttotiia >m, which alone occurs 

 in the WaUiehian Herbarium, under the name of A. Wightianum. Dr. A\ lght had, 

 however, retained in his own collection the specimen of A. costatum, along with one 

 of those of A. Arnottim m; and when he had occasion to revert to the subject for 

 the ' Illustrations/ having acquired additional mi rials, he detected the differences, 

 which he has clear! v indicated in that work. Dr. Wight has also pointed out the 

 probable identity of "the A. IViyhtiav. of the Prodromus with A. costatum, Jack ; 

 and after a comparison of the solitary specimen from Travancor in the Wightian 

 Herbarium, with those of Jack and Wallich, we can tiud do differences. As the de- 

 scription of A. Wightiamira in W. A. Prod., which must be considered the authority 

 for the species, agrees in all essential points with A. costatum, the former name must 

 necessarily be suppressed. 



4. SCHUMACHERIA, Vahl, Arnott. 



Stpala 5. Petala 5. Stamina indefinite, unilateral ia, monadelpha, 

 pluriserialia, filamentis in columnam brevem oblique cylindrical coalitis. 

 Anthem subsessiles, lineari-oblongse, obtusae, apiculatae, biloculares; 

 loculis lateraliter debiseentibus. Ovaria 3, discreta, dense pilosa, uni- 



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