Tabula 2850. 



Figs. 1-6.— SCIAPHILA MAJOR, Becc: 

 Figs. 7-14.— SCIAPHILA CLEMENSAE, Hemsl. 



Triuridaceae. 



S. major, Becc. Malesia, vol. iii. p. 332, t, 40, fi. 1-11. 



Borneo : without locality, Lohh\ Sarawak; Mount Mattang, 

 Beccari^ 1507. 



This species was included in the plate through error. Analyses of the 

 flowers of several species were made for purposes of comparison, and 

 S, major was mistaken for an unnamed species. In another place 

 (Annals of Botany, vol. xxi. pp. 71-77, tt. 9 and 10) I have discussed 

 the propriety of retaining in the genus SciaphUa such a wide range 

 of modification in floral structure as that presented by the thirty species, 

 or thereabouts, from the most distant parts of the world, referred here 

 by Beccari, Schumann and other botanists. In the same place I 

 gave reasons for not attempting to deal with the whole group ; and as 

 those reasons still hold good, S. major, Becc, is reproduced without 

 any alteration in nomenclature, though I think that it and *S. Clemensae 

 should not be placed in the same genus. 



S. Clemensae. Hemsl. {sp. novS) ; affinis S. tenellae, Blume, a qua 

 differt pedicellis ascendentibus, bracteolis minoribus, floribus sub- 

 corymbosis et stylis ovarium longe excedentibus. 



Herba saprophila, tenuissima, glaberrima ; caules simplices vel 

 pauciramosi, 6-12 cm. alti. Folia pauca, ad squamas minutas redacta. 

 Flares subcorymbosi, 1-2 mm. diametro, longiuscule pedicellati, pedi- 

 cellis capillaribus, unisexuales, superiores masculi. Perianthiuw utrius- 

 que sexus alte 6-fidus, segmentis inappendiculatis. Flares mascuH 

 triandri ; perianthii segmenta 6, e basi lata abrupte acuminata ; 

 stamina divaricata, quam perianthium dimidio breviora, filamentis 

 distinctis, antheris 4-lobatis; pistillodia nulla. Flares feminei carpellis 

 fere maturis 1*5-2 mm. diametro, perianthii segmenta lancoolata ; 

 staminodia nulla ; stylus supra medium lateralis, filiformis, ovarium 

 longe excedens. 



