1S96.] G. King & D. Praia— On Croftia. 299 



lower half of the filament so as to form a subgibbous tube ; the channel 

 along the filament slightly pubescent with scattered hairs. Ovary pubes- 

 cent externally, crowned with a style 2 in. long and with 2 filiform 

 stylodes '35 in. long. Fruit hirsute, "35 in. long, "25 in. across. Seeds 

 "12 in. long with a cupular hyaline basal arillus. 



Upper Burma: Shan Hills, at Taungyi. Dr. King's Collectors! 

 Flowers most resembling those of a Globba both in appearance and in arrange- 

 ment ; there is here, however, no labellum, while the lateral staminodes and the 

 petals, in place of being patent, are erect ; the lateral staminodes moreover are 

 here closely imbricately opposed to the lower half of the slender filament which 

 they embrace anteriorly, and to which consequently they impart some degree of 

 support. In habit and in fruit this plant most resembles a Cautleya, but its floral 

 structure removes it as far from the Hedychieae as its ovarian structure removes 

 it from the M antisieae. Its nearest ally is Hhynchanthus, one of the Euzingibereae, 

 of which it has much the bracts and calyx and quite the corolla. Bhynchanthus, 

 however, differs in having a petaloid filament without lateral staminodes ; a stigma 

 with truncate entire, not fimbriate margin, and short oblong, not elongated filiform 

 stvlodia. 



