666 CXLYII. BURMANNIACE*:. (J. D. Hooker.) [Burmannia. 



6. B. nepalensis, HooJc. f. stem 2-6 in. capillary 1-4-fld. naked, 

 flowers - in. obcordate white or yellowish, wings rounded or retuse at 

 the top. Gonyanthes nepalensis, Meiers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 537, 

 t. xxxviii. f. 1. Cyanotis nepalensis, Miers in Wall. Cat. 9006. 



NEPAL, Wallich. KHASIA HILLS, alt. 3-4000 ft., J. D. H. % T. T., Clarke. 

 DISTRIB. Cochiu China, Hong Kong. *t 



An extremely delicate white species. 



7. B. Walllchii, HooJc.f.; stem 4-0 in. sated 'fl* with a few minute 



lanceolate scales, flowers 1-5 ^- in. linear triquetrous or narrowlv' 

 3-winged. Gonyanthes Wallichii, Miers in Trcm*. "r. xviii. r>:'>7., 



t. 38, f. 2 ; Benth. Fl. HongJc. 364. BurmaunfL^^Uir?^: Jc, JR7. Asiat- 

 t. 272, f. 2. 



BURMA, Wallich. TENASSEEIM; t Mer^ui, ^A Dintrlb. 5592). 



TRAVANCORE; on the Anamallay Hills, Wight. DISTMB. fioug Kcmg.' 



Very variable in stature and robustness ; the Mergui specimens are filiform or even 

 capillary, the Anamallay ones quite robust and branched. 



8. B. Championii, Thwaites Enum. 325 ; stem 4-6 in. rather stont scaly 

 5-12-fld., flowers subcapitate |- in. tubular trigonous white. B. pseudo- 

 alata, Champ, mss. 



CEYLON ; in forests of the Saffragan and Hinidoon Corle districts, Champion, 

 Thwaites. 



Apparently a very distinct species ; the perianth -lobes are larger than usual in 

 the genus, and the stigmas are on longer branches of the style. Near B. tuberosa, 

 Beccari, of Borneo. 



2. THXSTOIA, Griff. 



Dwarf fleshy coloured simple herbs with leaves reduced to scales. 

 Flowers few or solitary, large, terminal. Calyx-tube produced far above 

 the ovary, at length circumsciss, campanulate or turbinate, mouth annulate, 

 contracted ; lobea 3, recurved, subulate. Petals ovate oblong or subulate, 

 recurved. Stamens 6, subsessile on the throat, connective very broadly 

 dilated, connate or conniving as a deflexed membranous tube concealing 

 "the 2 parallel distinct elliptic cells. Ovary short, broad, 1-celled; style 

 short, conic ; stigmas 3, stout, erect ; ovules many on 3 parietal pla- 

 centas. Fruit turbinate, top falling away with the calyx-tube. Species 7 

 or 8, Tropical Asiatic and American. 



1. T. Brunoniana, Griff, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xix. 341, t. 39 ; stem 

 several-flowered, calyx-lobes broadly ovate. 



TENASSEEIM; on decayed wood, Griffith.- 



A fleshy saprophyte, yellow, 4-8 in. high ; stem stout, flexuous ; scales scattered, 

 ovate-lanceolate. Flowers racemose, pedicels stout, bracts like the scales. Call/ > - 

 tube f in. long, yellow tessellated with scarlet, warted. Connectives very large, 

 membranous, truncate and denticulate at the apex, connate for half their length, with 

 a 2-lobed gland ? at each commissure. Fryit broadly truncate. Description from 

 Griffith, 1. c. 



2. T. G-ardneriana, Hook. f. in- Thwaites Enum. 325; stem 1-fld., 

 calyx-lobes rounded. T. Brunoniana, Miers in Trans. Linn. Soc. xx. t. 15, 

 f. 20, 21 (not of Griff.). Tribrachys Gardneriana, Champ, mss. 



CEYLON ; at the roots of trees near Galle, Champion. 



