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 PLANTS JAVANIC^ RARIORES. 579

interlabialibus respondentia, apicibus simplicibns acutius- culis : tertium nan una axi labii superioris oppositum. Ovarium liberum, sessile, ovatum, compressum, glabrum, viride, utrinque sulco longitudinali axi placentae lateralis respondenti insculptum, uniloculare, polyspermum : pla- centis duabus parietalibus, lateralibus, e lamina angusta ortis, bilobis, lobis planis, utrinque et per totam fere super- ficiein ovuliferis. Stylus filiformis glaber pallidus, situ et longitudine staminum antheriferorum, diu persistens. Stigma depresso-capitatum indivisuna papulosum stylo manifeste crassins. Vaginula nypogyna incompleta, venoso-striata, glaberrima, subtruncata saepe lobata. Capsula deflexa, calyce persistenti arete cincta ej usque longitudine, ovata, com- pressa, utrinqne sulco longitudinali insculpta, unilocularis, bivalvis. Placentce parietales duse, axibus valvularuna lamina angusta in lamellas duas iissili adnatae, bilobae, lobis expansis utrinque seminiferis. Semina undique versa, parva, numerosissima, elliptico-oblonga utrinque acuta, basi funi- culo brevi crassiusculo pallido affixa; testa crassiusculo- membranacea ; membrana interna obsoleta. Embryo ex- albuminosus, aqueo-palliclus, cavitatem testas replens, rectus ; cotyledvnes breves ; radicula teretiuscula umbilicuna attingens.

I observed the plant here described and figured in the Island of Timor near Coepang, chiefly in shady places, but sometimes in more exposed situations, in April, 1803. The same species was several years after collected in many parts of Java by Dr. Horsfleld, who states that it grows "in shaded situations at no great elevation above the ocean, near rivulets and ponds, rarely in forests ; and that the native name is Turu-pencUeng ■." If I am correct in referring RhincJioglossimi obliquum to our plant, it was observed also by Dr. Blume in mountainous situations of the same island, flowering in February.

By Dr. Wallich it was found in Nepal, Sylhet, and also in Martaban ; for although he has considered the plant from the last-mentioned region as a different species, named L. intermedia in his list, and for which Mr. Benthani has

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