THE FLORA OF THE MALAY· PENINSULA

CXLIua. BURMANNIACElE. [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 Beee. Males. i. 245, t. 14, figs. 1 to 4; Ridl.
Mat. ii. 72.
A fleshy white saprophyte 3 to 6 in. tall; rhiwme 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. fil. 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, BI.
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.
(I) G. aphyllum. Bl. Enum. Pl. ]a71. 29; Ridl. Mat. ii. 73.
G. borneense Beee. 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 linearlanceolate.
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.