Burmannia. | BURMANNIACE& (Wright). 3 
Ovary 3-celled ; style shortly 3-lobed; ovules numerous. Capsule 
b er 
usually adpressed, rarely lax and produced beyond the nucleus. 
Erect a ones: sometimes very slender, coloured and with minute 
leaves or scales, sometimes stronger with larger basal leaves ; flowers blue or white, 
rarely yellow, ‘aaliontty and terminal or many and cymose. 
Distris. Species about 20, in the tropics of both hemispheres, 
1. B. capensis (Mart. Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 12); stem filiform, 4—5 
in. long, naked or bearing 1 or 2 very minute leaves; flowers 3, 
terminal; calyx with 3 membranous egy ome or thin semic ir reular 
wings. Harv. Gen. . Afr. Pl. ed. 2, 370; pec in Fedde, 
Repert. July, 1912. B. sp., Lam. Bacyel i. 52 
Souts AFRICA: pimen locality, Herb. Jussieu. 
There is doubt as to this plant being South African. Through the — 
of Prof. H. Lec Seria a photograph of this plant from the Paris Herbariu 
been presented to Kew. It shows two very slender stems, espertivety 
24 and 34 in. high, broken off above their bases and each bearing 3 flowers at the 
apex ; the whole bears a striking faa 7 fe ce to B. oy var. africana, Rid]. 
(Journ. Bot. 1887, 85), and B. madagascariensis, Baker (Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 
68). The is labelled rb. D 
2 specime ‘* He r. Braguieres” and ‘‘M. Dupetit 
Thouars dit que celle-ci est son ogee a genus now united to Burmannia and 
which Mr, Baker believes to be the s as his B. madagascariensis. 
Orper CXXXI. ORCHIDEZ. 
(By R. A. Rourr.) 
Perianth Pin Seige irregular, of six free or variously combined 
ements. pals equal, or the dorsal one (ventral if the flower is 
not rever: fee aikseek lateral ones sometimes united with each 
other or with the foot of the column, forming a sac- or spur-shaped 
‘ass (mentum). Petals usually free, lateral ones more or less 
different from the sepals, ventral one, or dorsal if the flower is not 
— LP), — different, variously lobed or entire, the so-called 
dise or central part usually bearing crests or appendages, and the 
e peter extended into a spur or Stamens and style 
united into a central column, which faces the lip. Anther (in the 
African freon? solitary, on the top or back of the column, and 
te 4 
P. 
age, and are sometimes attached to a distinct stipes and gland, 
Ovary inferior, 1-celled, with parietal a usually undeveloped 
at flowering ean Stigma either consisting of a viscid ree near 
B 
