690 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAI, REGISTER. 



We are to thank Mr. Brown for the description of the 

 seed of this genus, the nature of which had been misun- 

 derstood until the present subject was submitted to the 

 test of his accurate and skillful investigation. 



Bot Beg. 511 (1821). 



IledycJiium elatum, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis glabris, 

 spicis laxis ; fasciculis ternis subtrifloris, laciniis interioribns 

 limbi cuneato-linearibus, labelli lamina bifida. Brown MS8. 



Caulis 8 — 10-pedalis. Yolia inferiora oblongo-lanceolata, 

 omnia acumine subulato-filiformi citiiis marcescenti. Spica 

 Q-uncialis, fasciculis distinctis sapissime ternis, patentibus, 

 trifloris. Ovarium (germen) villosum. Perianthium exte- 

 rius (calyx) spathaceum, scariosum, pubescens : interius 

 (corolla) tubo cylindraceo ochroleuco, limbo exteriore tripar- 

 tito laciniis angusto-linearibus acutis, interiore laciniis 

 later alibus cuneato-linearibus, apice parurn dilatato obliquo : 

 labellum ungue brevi lato-lineari : lamina circumscriptione 

 ovatd, lobis dimidiato-ovatis obtusiusculis. Filamentum 

 labello longius. Antheree linearis basi bifida lobis pol- 

 liniferis. Stigma cgathiforme indivisum ciliatum. Nec- 

 taria (stamina sterilia) 2, brevissima, teretiuscula, approxi- 

 mata. Brown MSS. 



An unrecorded species, determined and described by Mr. 

 Brown from native samples in the Banksian Museum, of 

 which that gentleman is now, fortunately for science, in the 

 well-earned possession. The samples formed part of the 

 collection of Nepaulese plants transmitted by Dr. WalHch, 

 the able superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, by 

 whom, as was plain from the inscribed notice, they had 

 been taken for speciosum, accurately described by himself 

 in the 'Flora Indica' of Roxburgh; but on examination by 

 Mr. Brown, proved to be essentially distinct from that 

 species. 



Bot. Beg. 526 (1821). 



Anthemis apiifolia, foliis glaberrimis pinnatifidis : lobis 

 cuneatis trifidis incisisve, floribus solitariis, involucri foliolis 

 linearibus apice scariosis. Brown MSS. 



Involucrum (calyx) hcemisplicericum, foliolis subeBquali- 



