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CXLIIItf. BURMANNIACE^. 
[Burmannia. 
straight-edged round-tipped wings. Sepals and petals blunt; petals 
much shorter than sepals. Hab. On paths and rocks at 1500 to 
3000 ft. altitude. Local. Selangor, Semangkok Pass (Napier, 
Ridley); Penang at 1500 to 2000 ft. altitude (Kunstler). 
(7) B. tuberosa Becc. Males, i. 245, t. 14, figs. 1 to 4; Ridl. 
Mat. ii. 72. 
A fleshy white saprophyte 3 to 6 in. tall; rhizome tuberous. 
Leaves lanceolate scale-like scattered on stem. Flowers 5 or 6 
clustered on the tip of the stem, erect, white, -25 in. long, not 
winged. Sepals yellow, ovate obtuse. Petals smaller. Capsule 
elliptic, -25 in. long. Seeds oval, nodulose. Hab. In damp swampy 
forest buried for half its length in decayed leaves. Not rare, but 
sporadic. Flowers scented like cowslips. Singapore, Bukit Timah; 
Changi. Malacca, Sungei Hudang (Hervey); Mt. Ophir. Selangor, 
Petaling. Kedah Peak (Ridley). Distrib. Borneo. 
(8) B. Championii Thwaites, Enum. 325; Hook. fit. F.B.I. v. 
666; Trimen, Flora of Ceylon iv. 131, pi. 87; Ridl. Mat. ii. 72. 
Fleshy saprophyte, 2 to 6 in. tall; rhizome thick, over 2 in. 
long, covered with ovate scales. Leaves lanceolate acuminate, -12 to 
•25 in. long. Flowers 4 or 5, white crowded, terminal *5 in. long, 
tube cylindric, not winged. Sepals ovate, -12 in. long. Petals very 
small terete. Capsule globose. Hab. Rare. In damp woods 
deeply buried in decaying leaves. Selangor, forests by Labu River 
(Ridley). Distrib. Ceylon. 
2 . GYMNOSIPHON, Bl. 
Slender saprophytes with scale-like leaves and small flowers in 
raceme or cyme. Perianth tube cylindric, not winged. Sepals 
broad. Petals small or absent. Stamens 3, oblong, sessile near 
the mouth of the tube, connective broad, no appendages. Style 
trifid. Ovary unilocular. Capsule oblong or globose crowned with 
persistent lower half of the tube. Seeds sub-globose rugose. 
Species 12, chiefly S. American, 1 African and 2 or 3 Malayan. 
(1) G. aphyllum Bl. Enum. PI. Jav. 29; Ridl. Mat. ii. 73. 
G. borneense Beec. Males, i. 241. t. 14, figs. 5-9. 
Stem wiry, branched, 4 to 5 in. tall. Leaves ovate or lanceolate 
blunt few. Flowers few very delicate, pale violet, *25 in. long on 
slender pedicels, tube short. Sepals ovate. Petals minute linear- 
lanceolate. Capsule cylindric, reticulate below, crowned by the 
enlarged perianth-tube. Seeds elliptic-ovoid, dark brown, ribbed. 
Hab. In damp woods, common all over the Peninsula but sporadic. 
Singapore, Bukit Timah. Johor, Batu Pahat (Kelsall). Malacca, 
Bukit Sadanen. Pahang, Taka Tahan. Selangor, Petaling. Perak, 
Gunong Batu Putih (Wray); Tapah. Kedah Peak (Ridley). 
Distrib. Sumatra, Borneo to Papua. 
