666 CXLYII. BURMANXIACES. (J. D. Hooker.) [Burmannia. 



6. B. nepalensis, Hook. 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, Miers 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., Clarice. 

 DISTEIB. Cochin China, Hong Kong. *t 



An extremely delicate white species. 



7. B. Wallichii, Hook.f.-, stem 4-0 in. nnb'd or with a few minute 

 lanceolate scales, flowers 1-5 in. li >r narrowlv 

 3-winged. Gonyanthes Wallichii, Mien* in Tr^u^. Li/m. Soc. xviii. 537,i 

 t. 38, f. 2 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. 364. BurmamJI ^^fr-//f. Jc. JP,/. Asiat. 

 t. 272, f. 2. 



Bire-if o Wnii^-h. TF.VAHPBP.I^ ; 8 i_f. Mcrgui, -bij[ ; Dlstrib. 5592). 



To be inserted by binder opposite page 667 of this volume. 



An amended Key to the Genera, &c., of the ORCHIDEJD 

 will be given at the end of the Order, in Vol. VI. ' 



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

 contracted ; lobes 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. 



TENASSEKIM; 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. Cali/x- 

 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. Oardneriana, IIoolc. /. in- Tkwaites 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. 



