194 Linneean Society. 



thium 3 — 5-sepalum, £Bstivatioiie valvatum. Stamina totidem opposita, 

 monadi-lpha, bilocularia (in unica specie nniltiloculnria). Floras faemi- 

 nei : Ovaria stipitata, receptaculis apice incrassatoglaudulosis aiilxa, 

 nuda. Sfijlus setaceus, peisisleiis. StUjma inconspicuuni. Fiuctus 

 pistillifovnies, sicci. 



Ph.12ocokdylis, Griff. 



Sexus diclines. Flores masculi igiioti. Florvs foeviinei : Ovaria m axi 

 sessilia, nuda, pilis paraph3'siformibus immixta. Stylus filifovmis, ex- 

 sertiis, deciduus. Stic/ma subcapitatum. Frurtiis compi-essi (striati) apice 

 subpapillosi, 



Of Balaiiophora he describes as new five species with the follow- 

 ing characters : — 



B. BURMANNicA, squaiiiis laxe inibricatis, bracteis truiicatis parum caiia- 

 liciilatis, pevianthio niasculo extiis cariieo demum sanguineo, columna 

 staminum eloiigata, antherarum locellis basi discrctis. 



Hab. in Regno Burmannico, ad fl. Salueen. 



B. AFFiNis, squamis.et bracteis praecedeiitis, flovib\is (masculis) pallidis, 

 columna staminum bievi subrotunda, locellis antherannn basi conflu- 

 entibus. 



Hab. ill Collibus Khasiyanis. 



Prsecedenti minor; an veve distincta ? 



B. ALVEOLATA, squamis arete inibricatis, bracteis profunde canaliculatis 



inter se favi instar dispositis, columna staminum subrotunda. 

 B, dioica, R. Br. in Roijle, lllusir. p. 330. t. 99? 

 Hab. in Collibus Khasiyanis. 



B. picTA, squamis distantibus laxis (luteis), spica foeminea obscure san- 



guinea. 

 Hab. in Montibus Mishmee jugi Himalayani. 



B. (Polypletia) polyandka, columna staminea brevilata, antheris inde- 



finitis 1-locularibus. 

 Hah. in Collibus Khasiyanis. 



With reference to these species Mr. Griffith enters at considerable 

 length into their anatomical and external structure, and in the course 

 of his observations directs attention to the resemblance of the pistilla 

 to the pistilla of Muscl, and more especially to those of some evaginu- 

 late Hepaticce, and to the effects produced by the action of the pollen 

 on the styles. " Indeed," he observes, " in the development of the 

 female organ, the continuous surface of the style before fecundation, 

 and its obvious perforation after, Balanophora presents a direct affi- 

 nity to a group of plants, with which otherwise it has not a single 

 analogy." On this ground he objects to the association of Balano- 

 phorece with such highly developed families as Rafflesiacece and Cy- 

 tinea. " As a mere hypothesis," he adds, " I would consider it as 

 the homogeneous-embiyo form of Urticince, forming a direct passage 

 in one, and usually the more perfect, structure to Musci and Hepa- 

 ticce." 



Of Ph(eocordylis (a name used by him to prevent confusion, as he 

 has not sufficient knowledge of Dr. WaUich's plant to determine 

 whether his genus is the same as that doubtfully proposed in Dr. 

 WaUich's list under the name of Sarcocordylis) he describes and 



