PLANTS JAVANIC^ RARIORES. 579 



interlabialibus respondentia, apicibus simplicibns acutius- 

 culis : tertium nan una axi labii superioris oppositum. 

 Ovarium liberum, sessile, ovatum, compressum, glabrum, 

 viride, utrinque sulco longitudinali axi placentae lateralis 

 respondenti insculptum, uniloculare, polyspermum : pla- 

 centis duabus parietalibus, lateralibus, e lamina angusta 

 ortis, bilobis, lobis planis, utrinque et per totam fere super- 

 ficiein ovuliferis. Stylus filiformis glaber pallidus, situ et 

 longitudine staminum antheriferorum, diu persistens. Stigma 

 depresso-capitatum indivisuna papulosum stylo manifeste 

 crassins. Vaginula nypogyna incompleta, venoso-striata, 

 glaberrima, subtruncata saepe lobata. Capsula deflexa, calyce 

 persistenti arete cincta ej usque longitudine, ovata, com- 

 pressa, utrinqne sulco longitudinali insculpta, unilocularis, 

 bivalvis. Placentce parietales duse, axibus valvularuna 

 lamina angusta in lamellas duas iissili adnatae, bilobae, lobis 

 expansis utrinque seminiferis. Semina undique versa, parva, 

 numerosissima, elliptico-oblonga utrinque acuta, basi funi- 

 culo brevi crassiusculo pallido affixa; testa crassiusculo- 

 membranacea ; membrana interna obsoleta. Embryo ex- 

 albuminosus, aqueo-palliclus, cavitatem testas replens, 

 rectus ; cotyledvnes breves ; radicula teretiuscula umbilicuna 

 attingens. 



I observed the plant here described and figured in the 

 Island of Timor near Coepang, chiefly in shady places, but 

 sometimes in more exposed situations, in April, 1803. The 

 same species was several years after collected in many parts 

 of Java by Dr. Horsfleld, who states that it grows "in 

 shaded situations at no great elevation above the ocean, near 

 rivulets and ponds, rarely in forests ; and that the native 

 name is Turu-pencUeng ■." If I am correct in referring 

 RhincJioglossimi obliquum to our plant, it was observed also 

 by Dr. Blume in mountainous situations of the same island, 

 flowering in February. 



By Dr. Wallich it was found in Nepal, Sylhet, and also in 

 Martaban ; for although he has considered the plant from 

 the last-mentioned region as a different species, named 

 L. intermedia in his list, and for which Mr. Benthani has 



