Burmannia.] CXLVII. BURMANNIAOE^;. (J. D. Hooker.) 665 



leafy, leaves 3-6 in. narrow recurved, midrib stout, flowers ^ in. secund on 

 the branches of a deflexed forked cyme, wing narrow. 



PERAK; alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini, King's Collector. DISTEIB. Borneo 

 at 5000 ft. 



Root fibrous. Leaves 1 in. broad. Forks of cymel in. ; bracts in. ; flowers 

 pale blue ; perianth-segments long, nan v. 



3. B. ctoelegJJg^222LJtaT^ r - 4 '^ '> s * em ^~8 in. slender leafy or nearly 



flowers solitary or 2-3 i-| in- oblong 

 e blue, wings rounded truncate or retuse at 



top. Rn,/te 111. 87.,, t. HI ; Wall. Cat. 9005. B. uniflora, Herb. Rottl. 

 !> a /urea. Griff- -ZVc^tt^iy. 0$d; Ic. PL Asiat.'t. 272, f. 1 ; Beccari Males, i. 

 2 !:>, t. 'io'TTR. IV i Illume Enum. PL Jav. i. 28 ;' Miquel FL Ind. 



Jiat. iii. ' :1 ' JUf^f,'JBtob. Ham. B. triflora, Roxb. FL Ind. ii. 117. 

 (Jryptonema nift]acejfcfl*OTrj. in Flora 1848, i. 590. ISTephrocoBlium 

 malaccense, Turcz. I. c. 1853, i. 287 (and by error Nephrocodinm in Walp. 

 Ann. vi. 41). 



TROPICAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Wallich. KHASIA MTS. ; CHITTAGONG and 

 southward to MALACCA and the ANDAMAN ISLANDS. CENTEAL INDIA and the 

 DECCAN PENINSULA, from Hazareb;igh, Clarke, to TRAVANCORE and CEYLON. 

 DISTRIB. Mauritius, China, the Malay Islands and N. Australia. 



Very variable in size, stout or slender, leafy or almost leafless, and in the form and 

 size of flowers ; oblong or elliptic and orbicular perianths occur on the same specimen. 

 The principal varieties are 



1. Stem 6-10 in. rather stout with numerous erect radical and cauline leaves 

 2~1 in- long' the radical narrow or short and ^ in. broad. Malacca, Mergui, Singa- 

 porej Borneo, China, Cochin China. 



2. Stem 4-8 in. slender, leaves very few or reduced to scales in the stem. 

 Common. Passes into . pusilla. 



4. B. pusilla, Thwaites Enum. 325 ; stem 2-6 in. very slender, leaves 

 very few radical in., cauline or 1-2, flowers 1-3 ^ in. oblong orbicular or 

 obcordate, wings rounded at the top. Benth. FL Austral, vi. 397. 

 Tripteranth.es pusillus, Wall. Herb. Cyananthus pusilla, Miers in Wall. 

 Cat. 9008. Gonyanthes pusilla, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537. 

 t, 38, f. 3. 



TENASSEEIM ; at Tavoy, Gomez. NORTH and SOUTH CONCAN, Law. DISTEIB. 

 Cambodia. 



I suspect this is a small state of S. ccelestis. 



** Radical leaves 0. 



5. B. Candida, Griff, mss. stem 4-8 in. filiform naked or with a few 

 minute subulate scales, flowers 55 in. solitary or 2-3 white or blue orbicular 

 deltoid or obcordate in outline, wings rounded truncate or retuse at the top. 

 ? Gonyanthes Candida, Blame Enum. PL Jav. 29 ; Miquel FL Ind. Bat. 

 iii. 615 ; Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537. 



KHASIA. MTS., alt. 4-5000 ft., Griffith, &c. BURMA j at Amherst, Wallich. 

 TENASSERIM, Griffith, Parish. DECCAN PENINSULA, from Canara southwards. 

 CEYLON. DISTRIB. Siam, Cochin, Madagascar. 



This I can distinguish fiom small forins of S. ccelestis or pusilla only by the 



absence of radical leaves, possibly the effect of growing in water. The flowers are 



usually blue, but Griffith has given the name to a white-flowered state. I have no 



specimens of Blume's Gonyanthes Candida, which he describes us being fleshy and 



growing on the dead roots of trees. 



