the margin, all quite smooth, the silky hairs only perceivable by means of 

 a glass, are tufted (floccose) like those of H. minor, but more condensed. 

 Bracteoles are present, linear, acutely acuminate very thin, 50 mm. in the 

 outer, 25 in the innermost flowers and appressed to the calyx, being easily 

 overlooked. The floralbracts are oblong acuminate concave membranaceous, 

 the shortest 80 mm. long. 



The calyx is as long as the coroll tube and envelopes the adult bud, 

 being prolongate above the coroll into a point, as in the other species of 

 this group. The anther is different from all other species of the genus. 

 There is no crest but the thickened upper margin of the connective is 

 emarginate between the thecae which are as long as the connective, but 

 the rim of the thecae is much shorter than their length and occupies 

 only 2/3 from the base. 



The stigma is also rather peculiar, it is very small, obovate and with 

 a large crescent-shaped mouth, (in open flowers always filled up with a 

 woolly substance consisting of the pollentubes) at the face; the bacK wall is 

 very little prominent. 



The lip is twice as long as the petals that form a roof over the anther 

 which is half enveloped by the rather small trigonous auricles or sidelobes 

 of the lip. The colour of the flower is bright pink. By the shape of the 

 lip it approaches the Achasma type. 



The stylodes are short and thin, they consist of two irregular hemi- 

 cylindric acute lobes one or both bifid at the top, forming an oblique short 

 one side open tube around the style. 



Hornstedtia conica RlDL. agrees doubtlessly in many points with H. 

 alliacea, and if the two species be identical the latter name, being a nomèn 

 nudum, must be rejected, although there is an authentic specimen in the 

 Herb. bog. However,! did not see H. conica and the adumbration is too 

 short to allow absolute certainty about the identity so provisorily 1 retain 

 the very suggestive name of T. et B. 



H. conica cannot be determined by means of the monography of 

 SCHUMANN, owing to his very curious description of the leaf. Evidently 

 Schumann took the description of the sheath in Ridley's diagnose for 

 that of the leaf, the word „sheath" having been omitted by a printer's error 

 in the original text. 



Hornstedtia deliana VAL. msc. n. spec. 



Rhizoma subterraneum. Caulis 1 . 5 — 6 M. altus pubescens. Folia breviter 

 petiolata, oblonga basi et apice sensim attenuata breviter auguste acuminata, 

 basi acuta, (500 X 100-580X 1 10); membranacea, supra glabra subtus mollia, 

 siccando castanea, margine breviter villoso-ciliata. Petiolus 6— 10 mm. longus 

 canaliculars. Ligula ovata, petiolum circ. longit. aequans et cum eo dorso 

 villosa. Spicae late fusiformes, demum obovato-fusiformes breviter pedun- 

 culatae, prope cormum confertae, pedunculo subterraneo. Bracteae externae 

 late ellipticae (60 X 35) apice patenti-muronatae parte inferiore sericeo- 

 tomentosa, albida, versus margines glabrae rubrae. Torus brevis crassus. 



