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solitary sometimes branched with a few scattered bract-like 
lanceolate leaves. Flowers terminal and single on each branch, 
about half an inch long, orange yellow with two lanceolate 
acute bracts at the base, lower portion of flower tubular ob- 
conic, yellow becoming olivaceous brown with a raised reticu- 
late pattern in the interior, which is visible externally when 
the flower is withering or preserved in alcohol; limb of 
flower, consists of six segments arranged in a circle and 
spreading bases triangular from a narrow ring, flat, then sud- 
denly becoming serrate, tubulate, between each a minute extra 
process. In the centre of the flower is a raised flat-topped 
ring, surrounding the mouth. The stamen are arranged 
round the walls of the tube pendulous from a short filament 
at the top, so that the anthers are on the inner surface next 
to the walls of the tube. ‘They are of the form of oblong 
scales, ending below in three acute subulate processes, the 
largest in the middle; on the inner face are the two narrow 
linear anthers; opening longitudinally from between them 
arises a quadrate organ with erose sides. The edges of the 
stamens meet so as to form acontinuous ring. The style 
is short reddish and scabrid with three very small stigmas. 
In fruiting the stem thickens and lengthens. The fruit is 
a cup-shaped capsule light brown, fleshy ribbed, the edges of 
which project some way above the top of the ovary which 
when ripe falls off in the form of a small round plate termin- 
ated by the style. The seeds are very numerous elliptic ob- 
long in outline and blunt, brown is ribbed. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah, near the well. September, 1890; 
Woodlands, Kranji (Beccari). 
Like other saprophytes, this beautiful little plant has a habit 
of appearing spasmodically and equally suddenly disappear- 
ing. In September last I was surprised to find the ground by 
the stream at Bukit Timah dotted all over with the little 
yellow stars of this plant appearing from among the dead 
leaves. I brought a number of plants home and kept them 
alive under a glass shade for some months, although in the 
jungle all had disappeared ina week. The rhizomes under 
cultivation were long persistent and continued to throw up 
flower stems. The flowers, however, did not produce fruit, 
