174 D. Prain— -Some new plants from Eastern India. [No. 2, 



LILIACE^E. 



11. Smi lax (Eusmilax) Pottingeri Prain; branches terete, smooth 

 or with few minute black verrucas ; leaves 6-8 in. by 4 - 5-5"5 in., ovate 

 abruptly acuminate, the narrow tip '6 in. long, thinly subcoriaceous or 

 chartaceous, very dark green above, glaucescent beneath, 5-costate from 

 the slightly cordate base, petiole 15 in., the basal portion *6 in. long, 

 narrowly sheading ; peduncles solitary, axillary, 35-4 in. long, very 

 slender, rigidly wiry, terete, smooth, 25-30-flowered ; pedicels rigid, 

 slender, grooved, 5-6 in. long. S. macrophylla Prain in Eec. Bot. Surv. 

 hid. i. 275 {not of Roxb.). 



Kachin Hills ; Myaungjong, Pottinger ; near Sadon, Prain s 

 Collector ! 



An extensive climber ; leaves somewhat shining above, with strong secondary 

 reticulations ; between the main-nerves on both surfaces ; cirrhri slender, wiry, 4-5 in. 

 long, springing from apex of sheathing part of petiole. Peduncle springing from a 

 swelling '2 in. above the petiole, bracts 0, bracteoles at base of pedicels shortly 

 oblong obtuse, pale-brown, palea-like, persistent, making a small globose head '25 in. 

 across. <f flowers not seen. $ Perianth segments ovate obtuse under 2 in. long; 

 staminodes 3, style short with 3 stout recurved stigmae. Fruit small '25 in. diam. 



A very distinct species coming nearest 8. ferox and its allies, but not very closely 

 related to any hitherto described Indian species. 



AROIDE^E. 



12. Cryptocokyne Ciiuddasiana Prain; leaves linear-lanceolate; 

 tube of spathe narrow, longer than the limb, limb of spathe lanceolate 

 acute not twisted, distinctly rather distantly transversely plicate within. 



Kachin Hills ; Keju river, near Si ma, Prain'' s Collector ! 



Tuberous, stoloniferous. Leaves 5-8 in. long, *25-*3 in. wide, rather abruptly 

 acute, lower fourth to third sheathing j midrib distinct. Scape very short. Tube of 

 spathe 3 in. long, limb 1*25 in. long, lanceolate acuminate, purple within, with 

 transverse folds, '1 in. apart, crossing its whole inner surface. 



A very distinct species, in habit much resembling a small form of C, ciliata 

 Fisch., and in this respect unlike any other Indian species of the genus. Its spathe 

 has, however, a limb that is rather longer and much narrower in proportion to the 

 tube than that of C. ciliata, while there are no fimbriae but, instead, there are 

 numerous transverse rugae as in C. spiralis Fisch., which has however different 

 leaves, a twisted lirnb to the spathe, with a tube much shorter than the limb. This 

 species has been very kindly compared with the material preserved in Herb. Kew 

 by Sir George King and Mr. N. E. Brown. 



