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 690 CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BOTANICAL REGISTER.

We are to thank Mr. Brown for the description of the seed of this genus, the nature of which had been misun- derstood until the present subject was submitted to the test of his accurate and skillful investigation.

Bot. Beg. 511 (1821).

Hedychium datum, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis glabris, spicis laxis ; fasciculis ternis subtrifloris, laciniis interioribns limbi cuneato-linearibus, labelli lamina bifida. Brown MSS.

Caulis 8 — lO-pedalis. Folia inferior a oblongo-lanceolata, omnia acumine subulato-filiformi citiils ma'rcescenti. Spica 6-uncialis, fasciculis distinctis scepissime ternis, patentibus, trifloris. Ovarium (germen) villosum. Perianthium exte- rius (calyx) spat/iaceum, scariosum, pubescens : interius (corolla) tubo cylindraceo oc/iroleuco, limbo exteriore tripar- tite laciniis a?igusto-linearibus acutis, interior e laciniis later alibus cuneato-linearibus, apice parmn dilatato obliquo : labellum ungue brevi lato-lineari : lamina circumscriptione ovatd, lobis dimidiato-ovatis obtusiusculis. Filamentum labello longius. Antherae linearis basi bifida lobis pol~ liniferis. Stigma cyathiforme indivisum ciliatum. Nec- taria (stamina sterilia) 2, brevissima, teretiuscida, approxi- mata. Brown MSS.

An unrecorded species, determined and described by Mr. Brown from native samples in the Banksian Museum, of which that gentleman is now, fortunately for science, in the well-earned possession. The samples formed part of the collection of Nepaulese plants transmitted by Dr. W allien, the able superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden, by whom, as was plain from the inscribed notice, they had been taken for speciosum, accurately described by himself in the ' Flora Indica' of Roxburgh ; but on examination by Mr. Brown, proved to be essentially distinct from that species.

Bot Beg. 526 (1821).

Anthemis apiifolia, foliis glaberrimis pinnatifidis : lobis cuneatis trifidis incisisve, floribus solitariis, involucri foliolis linearibus apice scariosis. Brown MSS.

Involucrum (calyx) //amisp/im'icum, foliolis subcequali

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