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Cathcart’s collection of what appears to be a very pale-flowered variety 
of it, and which has four lateral sepals. 
52. I. areuta (Н. f. & T.). Glaberrima, caule gracili ramoso, foliis 
2-23” breve petiolatis v. petiolo alato elliptico-lanceolatis utrinque 
longe acuminatis argute serratis dentatisve basi setosis superioribus 
ssepe petiolo glanduligero sed basi glandulis non stipulato, pedunculo 
brevissimo 1-2-floro, bracteis setaceis elongatis tortis, pedicellis elon- 
gatis, floribus magnis czruleis lilacinisve, sepalis oblique ovatis cuspi- 
dato-acuminatis majusculis, labello longe saccato late infundibuliformi 
v. campanulato calcare breviusculo hamato, vexillo dorso subrostrato. 
Hab. Umbrosis Himalaye orientalis temperate et tropice ; Sikkim, alt. 
5000-7000 ped.! J. D. H.; Mont. Khasiz, alt. 3000-6000 ped.! 
Lobb, &c. (8. Jun.-Oct.). (v.v.) 
Species insignis 1-4 pedalis, I. spirifer affinis et similis, sed caules ro- 
bustiores, folia majora, argute dentata v. serrata, basi ciliata (rarius 
nuda), petiolus szepissime glandulosus, pedunculis brevissimis, bifloris, 
bractez elongate torte, et calcar hamatum non circinatum.— Cap- 
sula linearis, pollicaris. Semina pauca, orbicularia, opaca, granulata. 
Folia inferiora sepius non glandulosa. 
The long, subulate, twisted bracteoles of this species are quite peculiar 
to it ; in other respects it resembles I. spirifer, &c. It is very common 
in the Khasia mountains, and is probably distributed amongst Wallich's 
plants, though I have failed to recognize it amongst the Linnean Society's 
collections, Henslow's, Bentham's, or those of Kew. In some of my 
Sikkim specimens there are four lateral sepals, as there are also in that 
figured by Cathcart’s artists; in others only two. 
b. Capsula brevis v. ignota. 
53. I. DISCOLOR (De Prodr. i. 687 ; Wall. Cat. 4767). Caule erecto 
subramoso, foliis petiolatis 1-2" ovatis acuminatis eglandulosis grosse 
crenato-serratis supra pilosulis, pedicellis breviusculis 2-floris, bracteis 
parvis late ovatis dissitis, floribus magnis, sepalis parvis ovatis acumi- 
natis labello longe saccato ventricoso calcare brevi incurvo v. circinato, 
vexillo dorso cornuto. 
I. insignis, Wall. Cat. 4766, in part. 
B. Glaberrima, foliis glaberrimis. 
Hab. Himalaya centrali temperata, Nepal! Wallich; montibus Sikkim ! 
et Khasia! umbrosis humidis (fl. Jul.-Sept.). (v.v.) 
Caulis 3-5 pedalis. Folia membranacea, majora et latiora quam in I. 
elegans et arguta. Pedunculi gracillimi, foliis breviores, arcuati, iis 
I. longipes et urticifolia similes, sed breviores, pedicellis capillaceis. 
Flores 13" longi. Capsule lineari-clavate, immature ? 
I. urticefolie simillima et forsan ejus varietas, sed bractez breviores 
et folia apice non caudato-acuminata; calcare involuto non abrupte 
inflexo. 
