99 



(5) B. PEDTJNCULOSA. (Wall.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 314. 



Engrav. Wall. pi. As. rar. I. t. 97. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial, tuberous : stem slighty hairy : leares 

 ovate-oblong, acute or acuminate, unequally cordate, one lobe 

 largely rounded, irregularly dentato-serrate, above sparingly 

 hairy, beneath only at the nerves and on the petiole : stipules 

 ovate-acuminate, ciliated : peduncles many-flowered : bracts 

 ovate-oblong, acute or bristly acuminate, glabrous : sepals of male 

 flowers ovate : petals 2, obovate-oblong, shorter : female flowers 

 scarcely bracteolate : lobes 5, obovate, nearly equal : capsule 

 broad-ovate, 3-winged, acutish at the base, above cordate, wings 

 ascending unequal, ovate or subacute. 



Silhet mountaius. Khasia. Assam. 



(6) B. Aenottiana. (Alpli. Dec.) 



Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 322. 



Syn. Diploclinium Arnottianum, WigMs Icon. t. 1815. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial : caudex short, covered by stipules 

 and roots : leaves ovate-rotund, palmately 7 — 8-nerved, cordate, 

 membranaceous, crenulato-dentate, sparingly above and beneath 

 hairy only on the nerves and on the petiole : stipules ovate- acumi- 

 nate : scapes somewhat longer than the petiole : flowers few, ap- 

 proximate : bracts ovate-oblong, obtuse : sepals of male flowers 

 round : petals obovate-oblong, somewhat shorter : outer lobes of 

 the female flowers 2, broad-ovate, inner two narrower : capsule 

 broad-oval, lateral wings rotund, nearly equal. 



Dense forests at Courtallum. 



(7) B. OTATiFOWA. {Alph. Bee.) 

 Ident. Dec. 1. c. p. 328. 



Spec. Chae. Perennial, tuberous, somewhat stemless : leaves 

 ovate-acute, subcordate, undulate, denticulate or entire : nerves 

 7 — 8-palmate, above here and there hairy 'or glabrous, beneath 

 puber ulcus or glabrous on the nerves and petiole : stipules lan- 

 ceolate, small : scapes or peduncles nearly equal to the petiole, 

 1 — 4-flowered at the top : bracts lanceolate, acuminate : sepals of 

 male flowers ovate : petiole elliptic, shorter : female flowers not 

 bracteolate : 2 lobes rotund, tlurd inner one obovate, smaller : 

 capsule broad, tutbinate, wings triangular-ovate, truncated above, 

 1 larger. 



Khasia. 



