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*244. BuRMANNiA DiSTicHA, L. ; Ridl. Op. cit. p. 331. 

 Common all over the Padang, except in very dry spots. 

 Flowers light blue. 



Distributed over the mountains of Australia, China, 

 Sumatra, Ceylon, and Kasiya; in the Malay Peninsula only 

 seen from Mt. Ophir and Kedah Peak. 



I have in vain sought for any insect visiting this plant and 

 B. ccelestis, Don. The petals and sepals in B. disticha remain 

 connivent the whole day, but are most widely separated about 

 midday, leaving only a narrow opening for an insect to 

 pollinate it. 



245. [BuRMANNiA TUBEROSA, Becc. Occurs at Kuala 

 Teku in muddy spots on the banks of the Tekli River. It is 

 scattered all over the Peninsula in the low country.] 



LILIACE^. 



246. Protolirion paradoxum, Ridl. & Groom, antea, 

 p. 59. Common in wet woods on the Padang to 6,000 feet 

 elevation. As usual associated with Dacrydium. 



Distribution. All high hills in the Peninsula where these 

 conifers grow. 



247. DiANELLA PARVIFLORA, n. Sp. 



Habit of D. ensifolia, Red. Stems one or two, about 6 

 inches long, covered with distichous leaves from the base and 

 flattened slightly. Leaves linear-acuminate, coriaceous, usually 

 revolute at the margins when dry, armed with short thorns on 

 the midrib and the margins for the whole length, 12 to 18 

 inches long, \ inch wide. Panicle terminal, elongate, lax, 14 

 inches long, with a single, lanceolate, acute sheath halfway up ; 

 branches few and short, about half an inch long. Bracts 

 lanceolate-acuminate, a quarter of an inch long. Flowers 4 or 5 

 together a quarter of an inch across. Sepals ovate-obtuse. 

 Petals longer, elliptic-obtuse, all blue in the centre, fading off to 

 dirty white at the edge, spreading, not reflexed. Stamens shorter 

 than -the petals ; filaments short, white, abruptly dilated above 

 into a yellow swelling. Anther brown, dehiscing at the apex 

 only. Ovary shining green. Style cylindric, white. Berry 

 deep blue. 



This species is distinct from D. ensifolia, Red., the common 

 lowland species, in its smaller flowers, shorter and differently 

 shaped stamens, ovate sepals, and longer petals. When dried, 

 it might easily be mistaken for D. ensifolia. This plant is 

 recorded from Mt. Kinabalu at 7,000 to 8,000 feet altitude by 

 Dr. Stapf in the 'Flora of Mt. Kinabalu.' It is improbable 

 that this lowland and sea-shore plant should occur at such an 

 altitude. May the Kinabalu plant not be D. parviflora, Ridl. ? 



248. Rhuacophila javanica, Bl. Enum. i. 14; antea, 



P- 59- 



Stems usually numerous, 6 to 8 feet tall, strongly flattened. 

 Leaves rather flaccid, glaucous, subcoriaceous, linear, acumi- 

 nate, unarmed, midrib very inconspicuous, disappearing 



