164 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUITA. 
9 to 4:5 in. broad. Flowering stem stout, 4 to 8 in. long, leafless, but with 4 to 6 blunt 
spathaceous bracts. Flowers spicate. Calyz tubular, pubescent, membranous, with three 
short subequal sub-acute lobes shorter than the corolla-tube. Corolla in two whorls of 3 
each; the outer whorl pinkish, with a dorsal ovate segment and two lateral shorter and 
narrower segments, all subacute; inner whorl yellowish, shorter than the outer, the two 
lateral segments broad, obovate, emarginate, the middle lobe rhomboidal, concave with a 
central thick ridge from base to apex; at the base a transverse recurved process, and at 
the sides of the base two purple divergent fleshy processes (staminodes). Fertile stamen 
incurved, shorter than the inner whorl of the corolla; the filament thick and fleshy; anther 
broadly elliptic, emarginate at base and apex, 2-celled, with longitudinal lateral dehis- 
cence. 0:471 inferior, obliquely and narrowly ellipsoid, striate, 1-celled; placentas 3, 
parietal; style filiform, lying in a groove on the face of the filament and between the 
anther-cells; stigma projecting slightly above the apex of the anther, minute, cup-shaped. 
Capsule. fusiform, 125 in long, 8- to 10- ribbed, pubescent, crowned by the withered 
segments of the perianth. Seeds broadly ovoid, "25 in. long, with a short white fleshy 
arillus. 
Sikkim Himalaya; growing in sand by the sides of streams from 800 to 3,500 feet. 
R. Pantling. 
This interesting genus was founded by Kurz in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal in the 
volume for 1873, pt. 2, p. 108, t. VIII. Kurz regarded the perianth as consisting of a tubular calyx 
in a single whorl, and of a corolla in two whorls. But he did not observe (at least he did not des- 
eribe) the two staminodes at the base of the odd lobe of the inner whorl of the corolla which complete 
the symmetry of the staminal whorl. As a fast these staminodes do not appear to be well developed 
in the only species which he knew, viz. JH. Burmanica. In the plant now figured and described, 
these are most distinct; and I venture to think that their existence invalidates the theory of the 
flower under which the lateral lobes of the inner whorl of the corolla are in this genus regarded as 
staminodes. : 
Prate 198. Hemiorchis Pantlingii, King. 1, rhizome, showing the relation of the bud of the leafy-stem to the old 
flowering stem; 2 outline of one of the largest leaves: of natural size; 3 & 4, leafy-stem : reduced tn size. 
PraTE 199. Hemiorchis Pantlingii, King. 5, rhizome and flowering scape: of natural size; 6, front view of flower; 
7, side view of flower; 8, stamen, and middle lobe of inner whorl of corolla with the staminodes at its base; 9, base of 
middle lobe cut off at its junction with the tube; 10, part of ovary, tube of corolla and fertile stamen; 11, fertile anther 
with stigmas projecting from its apex; 12, ripe fruit; 13, a seed; 14, section of the same: all enlarged. 
PLATE 200. 
MILULA, no». gen. Prain. 
Nat. Ord. Liliaceae, 
on хп. ALLIEAE (definitione parum ampliata—bracteae 1—20, flores rarissime spi- 
cati). | 
Subtribus 1.* Miluleae. (Sub-trib. nova proxima Euullieis anteponenda). Bulbus tunica- 
_ tus; spica т scapo simplici aphyllo terminalis. Bractea membranacea subspica 1, bracteolae 0; 
perianthium gamophyllum ; androecium regulare. Capsula loculicide dehiscens. 
. Muua gen. nov. Prain in Sc. Mem. Med. Of. Army India. Part IX, t. 1. Bulbus 
tunicatus; folia liguliformia ; inflorescentia spicata, bractea solitaria membranacea obtecta ; 
 perianthiun gamophyllum 6-partitum, lobis rotundatis; stamina breviter epiphylla 6, petalis 
= zy opposita ; ovarium syncarpium 3-loculare, stylo simplice filiformi, ovula in loculis 
