338 THE BURMANNIACEZ OF THE MALAY PENINSULA. 
but withered away, and from this and from the peculiar arrange- 
ment of the stamens it appears they require the aid of some 
insect-fertilizer. After fertilization the tube of the flower 
falls off leaving the basal portion in the form of a cup which 
increases in size. When the seed is ripe the whole of the 
top of the ovary becomes detached and with the seeds falls out 
upon the soil as the fruit becomes too heavy and weighs down 
its stalk. 
THISMIA FUMIDA. nD. sp. 
A small succulent herbaceous plant more slender and much 
less conspicuous than the preceding about four inches in 
height. Rhizome brownish with slender solitary stems bear- 
ing one or two flowers. Stems at first whitish, becoming 
brown when in fruit, with a very small scattered lanceolate 
acuminate leaves. Flowers much smaller than in 7h. Aseroe 
2 of an inch long and nearly 4 an inch across. The tube 
almost elobose, scabrid narrowed above the ovary and becom- 
ing broader above white with pink stripes. The limb con- 
sists of six narrow lanceolate acuminate lobes becoming 
subulate gradually. They rise directly from beneath the 
central raised ring and there is no outer ring nor small pro- 
cesses as in Zh. Aseroe. They are greenish grey in colour. 
The central ring slopes inwards and is not raised above the 
limb except by its own thickness. 
The style is very short with three small recurved stigmas. 
The capsule is shorter and broader than in the preceding a 
quarter of an inch each way, the edge crenulate, the outside 
scabrid, and ribbed. ‘The opening of the ovary half way down 
the cup is $ inch across. 
Singapore, Chan Chu Kang: Selangor, near Pataling. 
Rare and spasmodic at the roots of trees. It is very diffi- 
cult to find on account of its inconspicuous colours. It is 
quite easily distinguished by its more slender habit, colour 
smaller size of the flowers. And the other points mentioned 
in the description. 
TABLE OF SPECIES. 
Ovary three-celled, Stamens three,. .. Burmannia. 
Non-saprophytes. Leaves narrow green 
Stem long, creeping, ..B. longifolia. 
