158 S. Kurz — Contributions towards a [No. 2^ 



more bell- shaped, almost glabrous ; flowers in shorter cymes ; berries the 

 size of a large pea. 



? Var. (^. FLOEiBUisrDA, calyx about 1 1 lin. long or shorter, densely 

 pubescent, the limb shorter ; flowers in densely pubescent slender divari- 

 cate corymbs ; berries half the size. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of 

 the Pegu Yomah and from Martaban to Tenasserim and the Andamans ,- 

 also Chittagong ; var. ^. in the tropical forests of the Andamans, rather 

 frequent. — Fl. April June ; Fr. Oct. 



3. W. LONGIFLOEA, {Bcindia longiflora, Lamk. Diet. III. 26 ; DC. 

 Prod. IV. 386 ; Fosoqueria longiflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Wall. II. 569 ; 

 QriffitUa fragrans, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. II. 208, non WA.). 



Hab. Eather frequent in the tropical forests of the Andamans and 

 Tenasserim ; also Chittagong. — Fl. March — May ; Fr. June, July. 



This, as other species of Griffliliia, have the cymes not strictly axilla- 

 ry but arising from the end of, or laterally from, the transformed spine- 

 like branchlets. 



4. W. SiAMEis^sis, (Griffitliia Siamensis, Miq. Ann. Mus. Lugd. 

 Bat. IV. 130 ; Canthium ? angulosum, Wall. Cat. 8285. A.). 



Hab. Upper Tenasserim (Wall.). — Fl. March. 



5. W. BispiNOSA, {Stylocoryne hispinosa, Griff. Not. Dicot. 260). 

 Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of 



the Pegu Yomah and from Martaban down to Tenasserim. — Fl. AjDril, May. 



6. W. TASCICULATA, {^Poso^ueria fasciculata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Wall. 568 ; Posoqueria rigida, Wall, in Roxb. 1. c. 570 ; Bandia rigida, 

 and B. fasciculata, DC. Prod. IV. 386). 



Hab. Tenasserim, about Moulmein (Rev. Parish). 



7. W. MTETiroLiA, Kurz For. Fl. Burm. II. 49 (Gardenia myrti- 

 folia, Wall. Cat. 8255. D.) 



Hab. Frequent in the swamp-forests of the Irrawaddi alluvium in 

 Pegu ; Tenasserim, Moulmein (Wall.). — Fl. May. 



Diplospora, DC. 

 1. D. siifGTJLAEis, Korth. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. II. 200 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. II. 238 and Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. IV. 250. (Biscos^permum 

 s^liacrocar^um, Dalz. in Hook Kew Journ. Bot. 11. 257 ?) 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the tropical forests of the eastern slopes of 

 the Pegu Yomah and more frequent in those of Martaban, Tenasserim, and 

 the Andamans. — Fl. April, May. 



Hypobathrum, Bl. 

 Conspectus of Species. 

 Subg. 1. Fctunga, DC. Flowers 4-inerous; the calyx-limb persistent. Berry 

 contracted into a longer or shorter stalk (the elongating pedicel). 



