468 On two new Ceylon plants related 



minute, lying next to the hilum at the apex of somewhat corneous 

 albumen : radicle conical and somewhat curved. 



Aphylleia. Genus novum, 



Flores hermaphroditi : Perigonium 6-partitum, lobis re- 

 flexis. Stamina 6, laciniis perigonii adnata et opposita : Fila- 

 menta brevissima : antherae peltatae bilamellatre, lamellis toto 

 ambitu solutis apertse. Ovaria plurima receptaculo subcon- 

 vexo imposita. Stylus lateralis, obliquus : stigma pelta- 

 tura, radiatim multifidum. Utriculi plurimi basi verticaliter 

 dehiscentes, membranacei, glandulis pellucidis tecti. Semen 

 ovoideum : testa dura, fragilis : raphes notata. Embryo inter 

 albumen minimus : radicula hilo proxima. 



Herba pusilla, Ceylanica, 3-4 pollicaris aphylla, tenerrima : 

 scapo erecto tereti, spiciformi, simplici vel dichotomo : floribus 

 minutis erubescentibus . 



1. Aphylleia erubescens, Champion. 



Hab. — Near Galle, Ceylon ; in damp woods. Flowers 

 from December to April. 



Descr. — A minute annual plant, with the root fibrous and bearing 

 either one or two scapes, which are only three or four inches high 

 and several flowered. Leafless and not lactescent, the scape fur- 

 nished with several alternate and minute bracteoles. Pedicels mode- 

 rate, arranged alternately on the scape and bracted at base. The 

 flowers nodding, minute, from % to J of a line in diameter, with the 

 limb 6-cleft. Segments of the limb subulate, reflexed when in fructifi- 

 cation, persistent, purplish coloured. Stamina six, opposite the seg- 

 ments of the perigonium : anthers when young bilobate, when the 

 pollen bursts opening right across, white. Style linear, lateral. 

 Stigma peltate, black, radiately cleft. Ovaries and utriculi ovoid, 

 sanguineous red and covered with pellucid glands. Utriculi burst- 



