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This again might generically be held apart on account of 

 the disconnected stamens with free very thin filaments and 

 sagitate anther-connective, particularly so, should no transits 

 to these characters be discovered in any yet unknown species. 



5. Thismia clandestina ; Sarcosiphon clandestinum ; Blume 



Mus. bot. Lugd. Batav. i., 65 t. xviii. (1849) Java. 

 Imperfectly known, and therefore the generic place 

 doubtful. 



6. Thismia Nefttunis ; Beccari, Malesia i., 251 t. xi. (1878). 



Sarawak. 



7. Thismia Aseroe ; Beccari, Malesia i., 252 t. x. (1878). 



Singapore. 

 To this stands evidently in closest relation the simultane- 

 ously described and figured Thismia ophiuris from Borneo. 



8. Thismia clavigera. G-eomitra clavigera ; Beccari, Malaisia 



I, 251, t. x (1878). Sarawak. 



9. Thismia episcopalis ; Geomitra episcopalis; Beccari, Malaisia 



i., 250 t. xi. (1878). Mt. Mattan, Borneo. 



10. Thismia Rodwayi ; Derwent, Tasmania. 

 This is nearest allied to the next foregoing. 



The constitution of the word Thismia, as dedicatory to the 

 Phyto-Anatomist Th. Smith, was unfortunate, though the 

 name is euphonious. 



Soon after this was written, several more specimens of the 

 Thismia were found by Mr. Rodway and kindly transmitted 

 to me ; they came from the lower portion of the eastern slope 

 of Mount Wellington. He noticed the plant to grow also on the 

 roots of Bedfordia, and he further ascertained that the 

 unpleasant odour of the flower is only developed in the process 

 of decay. Boot ramified into few filiform somewhat carnulent 

 divisions. Stem one, or when two stems occur, distant, some- 

 times very short. The three shorter lobes of the calyx 

 exterior, but at about the same level as the longer lobes, 

 which can be regarded as petaline. Anthers concealed 

 through the introflexion of the staminal tube, whereby they 

 are pressed against the inside of the calyx-tube, so that 

 intervening of insects becomes necessary for passing the 

 pollen on to the stigmas. Outer part of the anther-connective 

 ending upwards in two deltoid denticles, much overreached 

 by an exceedingly tender setule. Pollen grains whitish when 

 moist, almost dimidiate globular. Pipe fruit as yet unknown. 



