OA ee. THE PELIOSANTHES OF. 
to 9 inches long, one inch wide, thinly coriaceous, five nerved. 
Raceme eight inches long lax, rachis purple, a few large 
isolated empty bracts at the base. Bracts ovate to ovate lanceo- 
late cuspidate acuminate, + inch long, pale green, the inner 
ones (one to each flower) smaller. Pedicels of flowers erect deep 
violet, shorter than the bracts. Flowers two or three in a tuft 
flat 2 inch across. Sepals ovate subacute deep green edged and 
tipped with violet. Petals shorter quite rounded at the apex 
broader dark green edged with white tinted violet. Staminai ring 
hardly elevated dark violet adnate to the petals nearly up to the 
top. Anthers brown opening upwards. Style thick columnar 
. three lobed to the base, dark green, about as long as the staminal 
ring. Stigmas three short. Ovary completely inferior. 
Penang. Government Hill, Pulau Badak: Siam, Tonka, 
and Kasoom. (Curtis.) 
I have also collected a plant in fruit in Pahang, at the 
Tahan River, which resembles this in the arrangement of the flo- 
wers, but has much larger leaves three inches across. 
This species occurs also in Burmah, and Assam. It is easily 
distinguished by its long narrow leaves and flowers in_ tufts 
instead of being solitary. Though a dull colored thing it was 
the first species cultivated in England as early as 1810. 
P. violacea Wall. Cat. no. 5084. Baker. Journ. Linn. Soc. 
xvii p 504. = 
Rhizome ascending stout. Leaves with long semiterete 
petioles six inches long blade ovate lanceolate to ovate seven 
or eight inches long, and two and a half to three inches wide, 
acute or acuminate, nine nerved, dark duil green somewhat 
stiff in texture. Raceme about four inches tall, the rachis 
very stout at base deep violet purple. Bracts broadly lanceo- 
late acute papery, lower ones large about half an inch long 
upper ones smaller. Flowers crowded solitary campanulate- 
globose fleshy on short thick white pedicels, about a quarter 
of an inch across deep violet nearly black sepals and _ petals 
obovate obtuse ; inch long incurved the petals rather small- 
er than the sepals. Staminal ring thick free from the peri- 
anth and ovary. Anthers very small the cells linear parallel. 
Pistil conical shorter than the staminal ring superior, stigmas 
three short and broad, ovary three-celled, ovules about six in each 
cell. Seed oblong blue, endosperm as large as a pea globular, 
