the Genus Sciaphila , Blume. 75 
would appear that these small flowers are peculiarly subject to disturbances 
in their development. 
In connexion with the Seychelles plant I have looked through the 
Triuridaceae at the British Museum, as well as those at Kew, and among 
the former is a specimen collected in the island of Aneiteum, New 
Hebrides, by John MacGillivray, in 1853 (or 1854, as labelled, but there is 
no evidence that MacGillivray visited the island a second time), which is 
apparently undescribed. With the permission of Dr. A. B. Rendle, the 
Keeper of the Botanical Department, I have been able to examine this 
plant and describe it, and excepting in the stamens, and perhaps the 
absence of staminodes from the female flowers, the floral structure is the 
same as that of Sciaphila tenella , Blume. I therefore place it provisionally 
in that genus. 
Sciaphila aneitensis, Hemsl. species nova a S. tenella , Bl., floribus masculis 
triandris et carpellis numerosioribus haud verruculosis recedit. 
Planta saprophytica, gracilis. Caules erecti, simplices, circiter 25 cm. alti, 
squamis paucis minutis instructi. Flores numerosi, racemosi, pedicellis brevibus 
recurvis, unisexuales, superiores masculi. Perianihium utriusque sexus 6-partitum, 
segmentis ovatis apice comoso-barbatis inflexis nunquam reflexis. Flores masculi 
circiter 3 mm. diametro, triandri ; stamina perianthii lobis alternis opposita ; 
filamenta brevissima ; antherae bilobae, rima transversa dehiscentes ; pistillodia 
numerosa, globosa. Flores feminei carpellis fere maturis circiter 5 mm. diametro ; 
staminodia nulla ? sed flores iuniores non visi ; carpella 30-40, ovoidea, circiter 
1 mm. diametro, laevia, quam stylus infra medium ventralis tertia parte longiora, 
stigmate minuto globoso papilloso. 
New Hebrides : Aneiteum, MacGillivray , 1853. Herb. Mus. Brit. 
Sciaphila tenella, Blume. 
Figures 11 to 17, Plate X, represent two out of four of the plants 
which Blume apparently had under observation when he wrote his original 
description, together with their floral structure. All four plants appeared 
to be the same, though Miss Smith and I did not dissect flowers of all of 
them, and there is only one label on the sheet, which gives the locality, as 
near as we could decipher it, as van de Gunnung [i. e. Mount] Mendare. 
It is possible, however, that Blume had other specimens before him, 
because he gives more than one locality : ‘ Crescit in umbrosis Montis 
Menarae ac sylvarum Insulae Nusae Kambangae.’ 
The empty anthers of the three or four male flowers examined are 
3- lobed, which is probably an abnormal condition, the normal condition 
being 4-lobed in many of those figured by Beccari and others, and in 
some cases the dehisced anthers look as though they were permanently 
4- celled, as described by Miers in some other members of the order. 
And the anthers of A. tenella have the appearance of being permanently 
