690 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER. 



We are to thank Mr. Brown for the description of the 

 seed of this genus, the nature of which had been misun- 

 derstood until the present subject was submitted to the 

 test of his accurate and skillful investigation. 



Bot. Beg. 511 (1821). 



Hedychium datum, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis glabris, 

 spicis laxis ; fasciculis ternis subtrifloris, laciniis interioribns 

 limbi cuneato-linearibus, labelli lamina bifida. Brown MSS. 



Caulis 8 — lO-pedalis. Folia inferior a oblongo-lanceolata, 

 omnia acumine subulato-filiformi citiils ma'rcescenti. Spica 

 6-uncialis, fasciculis distinctis scepissime ternis, patentibus, 

 trifloris. Ovarium (germen) villosum. Perianthium exte- 

 rius (calyx) spat/iaceum, scariosum, pubescens : interius 

 (corolla) tubo cylindraceo oc/iroleuco, limbo exteriore tripar- 

 tite laciniis a?igusto-linearibus acutis, interior e laciniis 

 later alibus cuneato-linearibus, apice parmn dilatato obliquo : 

 labellum ungue brevi lato-lineari : lamina circumscriptione 

 ovatd, lobis dimidiato-ovatis obtusiusculis. Filamentum 

 labello longius. Antherae linearis basi bifida lobis pol~ 

 liniferis. Stigma cyathiforme indivisum ciliatum. Nec- 

 taria (stamina sterilia) 2, brevissima, teretiuscida, approxi- 

 mata. Brown MSS. 



An unrecorded species, determined and described by Mr. 

 Brown from native samples in the Banksian Museum, of 

 which that gentleman is now, fortunately for science, in the 

 well-earned possession. The samples formed part of the 

 collection of Nepaulese plants transmitted by Dr. W allien, 

 the able superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, by 

 whom, as was plain from the inscribed notice, they had 

 been taken for speciosum, accurately described by himself 

 in the ' Flora Indica' of Roxburgh ; but on examination by 

 Mr. Brown, proved to be essentially distinct from that 

 species. 



Bot Beg. 526 (1821). 



Anthemis apiifolia, foliis glaberrimis pinnatifidis : lobis 

 cuneatis trifidis incisisve, floribus solitariis, involucri foliolis 

 linearibus apice scariosis. Brown MSS. 



Involucrum (calyx) //amisp/im'icum, foliolis subcequali 





