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diametro, lobis vix acutis; corolle glabre tubus cylindricus, 
circiter 3 lineas longus, limbus fere pollicem diametro, basi extus 
10-foveolatus, intus 10-torulosus, lobis latis longe acuminatis 
leviter incurvis; filamenta brevissima; antheræ dorso villosæ. 
Nucule late, compress, oblique insertæ, circiter 3 lineas longa, 
denticulato-marginate, ceterum nude. 
Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
Trichodesma khasianum, Clarke, to which this is most nearly 
allied, has larger thinner leaves studded with coarse tubercled 
hairs. 
Cynoglossum furcatum, Wall.?; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 155.— 
Shan hills at 8000 to 5000 feet. 
Afghanistan, and in mountainous regions throughout India to 
Ceylon. 
The Shan specimens have less leafy stems. 
Onosma burmanica, Coll. et Hemsl., n. sp. 
Herba erecta, 14-2 ped. alta, siccitate tota argenteo-strigosa, 
caulibus robustis rigidis infra simplicibus, inflorescentia laxe 
ramosa. Folia (radicalia desunt) sessilia, rigida, lanceolata, 1-13 
poll. longa, vix acuta, margine revoluta. Flores, ut videtur, atro- 
purpurei, circiter semipollicares, laxe pseudoracemoso-panieulati, 
pedicellis flores fere æquantibus, bracteis angustis pedicellis 
brevioribus; calyx dense hispido-pilosus, segmentis fere linearibus 
acutis corollam fere equantibus ; corolla extus appresse puberula, 
anguste tubuloso-campanulata, breviter 5-dentata, dentibus del- 
toideis acutis erectis ; stamina infra medium tubi coroll: affixa, 
filamentis filiformibus tuboque basi villosis, antheris elongatis 
cirea stylum conniventibus. Nuculæ erectæ, ovoideæ, acute, 
circiter 1} lin. longæ, parce tuberculatæ. 
Shan hills at 4000 feet. 
A distinct species and the first record of the genus east of 
Sikkim. This plant was only once met with, growing grega- 
riously on a grassy hill-side on the road from Koni to Fort 
Stedman, by way of the Inleywa lake. 
COoNYOLYULACEEX. 
Argyreia obtecta, Clarke; Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 186.—Shan 
hills terai at 3000 feet. 
Burma and Tenasserim. ` 
