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bract, 1:75 cm. across; seeds dark-blue, 6 mm, across, irregularly pisiform; aril 
small white, laciniate. Bak. in Hook. f. Flor, Brit. Ind. vi. 248 (1892). 
Eastern HIMALAYA: Sikkim, 2,500—4,500 ft.; Hooker, Clarke, King, Prain. 
This species is the type of $ Pleuranthesis Benth., which is characterised by 
having the flower-spikes lateral on the leafy stem. Аз no figure of this section has 
been published, the present opportunity is taken of reproducing an original drawing 
of the only species, made from a living plant in 1874. 
РтАтЕ 88.—Zingiber Clarkei King. 1, rhizome and base of stem; 2, top of leafy stem; 3, 4, 
5, & 6, main and secondary bracts and flowers, of one group; 7, single flower; 8, corolla segments ; 
9, Пр; 10, anther; 11, ovary, with style and stigma; 12, fruiting spike; 18, single fruit; 14, capsule 
cut transversely; 15, seeds. 
G. K. 
PLATE 89. 
96. PANCRATIUM LONGIFLORUM Roxb. Hort. Beng, 23 (1814). 
Natural order Amaryllidaces. 
A bulbous herb; ¿u globose, 3—5 cm. in diam., neck cylindric, 1 cm. wide, 
3—4 cm. long; leaves narrowly lanceolate, 20—30 cm. long, 1--25 cm, wide; scape 
shorter than leaves ог perianth-tube, compressed, 1-fld 8 cm. long; spathe solitary, 
acuminate, 4 em. long; perianth with greenish tube, 19—14 cm. long, 6—7 mm, wide 
throat obconic, lobes lanceolate, white, 5—6°5 cm. long; staminal-cup 3—3°5 cm. 
deep, 2:5—3 cm. wide, white, with large, 2-fid teeth 1—1:25 em. long, between the 
pale-green filaments 1:25—1:5 cm. long; anthers 1—1:25 cm. long, yellow. ر770‎ 
Por. Ind. ii. 125 (1832); Kunth, Enum. у. 663 (1850); Herb, Amaryllid. 208, t. 
42, f. 2? (1837); Bak. Handb. Amaryll. 119 (1888); Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind, vi. 286 
(1892). | 
МатАуАх ARcHIPELAGO: Moluccas, б. Smith, file Roxburgh, Innia; N.-W. Provinces, 
at Lucknow, Rose? Oudh, Kheri; Rose? C. India, Raipur; J. Martin! Deccan, Rottler. 
This interesting plant had long been lost to the Calcutta garden when in 1888 
Mr. Rose, then Postmaster-General for Oudh, sent a number of bulbs from the compound 
of his residence at Lucknow. His house is believed to have been that occupied by 
the well-known Gen. C. Martin while in the service of the Nawab of Oudh. As Gen. 
Martin communicated rather freely with Dr. Roxburgh, our first impression was that 
the plants sent by Mr. Rose might be descendants of some presented by Dr, Rox- 
burgh to Gen. Martin. Our plate, which is drawn from life, from one of the plants 
received from Lucknow, shows that the Lucknow plant agrees in every respect with 
the Moluccas plant as figured by Roxburgh, Icon. Ined. vii. 9 (serial No. 1959), ex- 
cept that the Moluccas plant is slightly larger in all its parts, Mr. Rose, to whom 
this opinion was communicated, was able a year later to show that, though a possible 
one, ours was not a necessary explanation of the existence of the plant in a Lucknow 
compound. He communicated other plants of the same species, undoubtedly wild, 
obtained by himself while on tour in Oudh. 
Since then Mr. J. Martin, of the Indian Forest Dept., has kindly sent living 
plants from the district of Raipur in C, India, aud Sir Joseph Hooker records, in 
