324 Ridley . — Two new species of Thismia. 
This is a very charming little species, with the usual pallid 
stem three inches or more tall, sometimes branched, with 
a tuft of roots at the base. The bract-like leaves are lanceo- 
late acute. The flowers are about as large as those of Th . 
Aseroe , Becc. ; the tube is hardly dilated upwards, it is bent 
at an angle with the ovary. The very short pedicel is black, 
the ovary rose-colour, and the tube of the perianth is very 
dark sepia brown. The petals and sepals are quite similar, 
with a lanceolate base, and filiform apices of a bright sienna 
brown, and during life I could perceive that there were fine 
cilia on them. The ring surrounding the mouth is of a bright 
yellow, and but little raised. The stamens are broad and 
adnate for most of their length. At each corner of their 
broad truncate apices is a clubshaped process, and a few 
shorter processes project from the under side. The very 
small anther-cells are elliptic and parallel ; the style is short 
and stout ; the three stigmas are flat and broad with bifid ends. 
The capsule is cup-shaped, with papillose longitudinal ridges. 
Th. grandiflora, n. sp. 
Herba saprophytica, caule suberecto ij pollicis alta, uniflora. 
Folia et bracteae lanceolatae acuminatae appressae trichomatibus 
glandulosis tectae. Flos majusculus, terminalis. Ovarium breve. 
Perianthii tubus pollicem longus latum urceolatum, pallide roseum, 
striis obscurioribus, lobis basibus latis ovatis J pollicis longis, apicibus 
filiformibus J pollicis longis e dorsis productis, omnibus aequilongis 
brunneis, corona oris paullo elevata brunnea. Staminum connectivae 
quadratae connatae, processubus filiformibus breviusculis 3 in medio 
multo longioribus, pluribus brevibus subtus e margine elevato. Antherae 
loculi subparalleli, approximati parvi. Stylus pro genere longiusculus. 
Stigmata 3 oblonga lanceolata obtusa integra papillosa. Capsula non 
visa. 
Johore, near Tana Abang at the mouth of the river Sembrong, where 
a single plant was collected by Mr. H. J. Kelsall, who also made a 
coloured sketch of it. 
This species is allied to Th. Ophiurus , Becc., a native of 
Borneo ; but that is described as having yellow flowers, the 
