MINBU IN UPPER BURMA. 
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tuft, leaf-sheaths 2*5-4*5 cm * long, equitant, petiole i?2-i*8 em, long, 
lamina narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, tapering gradually into the 
petiole, glabrous on both surfaces, dark green above, lighter below* 
6*5-16*5 cm. long, 1 *2-1*8 cm. broad. Spike appearing between the 
leaves, very shortly peduncled, few-flowered, bracts green, about 
i*8 cm. long, those of the coma tinged with pink. Flower 2*8 cm. 
long, corolla-tube 18 cm. long. Calyx white, pubescent, reaching 
half way up the corolla tube, with 3 small rounded teeth. Lateral 
corolla segments sub-equal, white translucent, broadly ovate* 
posterior segment larger and hooded. Lateral staminodes oblong 
yellow, lip yellow, broadly oblong, obscurely three-lobed, lateral 
lobes feebly developed, central lobe projecting, retuse, anther oblong 
with inferior incurved horns, stigma spatulate. Flowered in Royal 
Botanical Garden, Calcutta, in July 1903. 
Minbu district, Shaik Mokim ! 
This species would appear to come after C. plicata % 
888. Zingiber Adans. 
661, Zingiber Casumunar Roxb. 
Arracan Yomahs. 
Distribution.— Tropical Asia. 
889. Phrynium Willd. 
663. * Phrynium parviflorum Roxb, 
Arracan Yomahs. 
Distribution.— Eastern Himalaya, Assam, Burma, Andaman 
islands, Peninsular India, Malay Peninsula and Archipelago. 
LXXXVII,— HiEMODORACEiE. 
390. Sansevieria Thunb. 
663. Sansevieria Roxburghiana Schult. f. 
Pyogingon. 
Distributio —Peninsular India, Ceylon, Burma. 
LXXXVIIL— DIOSCOREACEtE, 
391. Bioscorea Linn. 
664. I ioscorea diemona Roxb. 
Nwamadaung hills. 
Distribution. — Throughout India and Burma, Malay Peninsula 
and Archipelago, China, 
