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. mbro-venia, Sook Bot Mag. t. 4689 ; caulescent, leaves ellipti< 

 ar lanceolate aciuninate entire or slightly angular undulate outer perianth-seg 

 ments white with rose-red veins- A. DC. Ptodr. xv. pt. i. 347. By barbata 



WaU. Cat. 3679 B. tartly. 



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^^J^ SiKKiM, Bhotan and Khasia Mrs., alt. 3000-6000 ft., frequent. 

 ;, Rootstock thick. Plant 8-16 in., stem puberftous or minutely pubescent. Leaves 

 3-6 in,, usually narrow, sometimes elliptic, shortly pubescent on the nerves beneath 

 otherwise glabrous, base unequal rounded scarcely cordate; petiole 1-2 in. ; stipules 

 persistent, lanceolate, caudate, glabrous. Peduncles axillary, 3-6 in., usually divided 

 x^^y ^ear the top and few-flowered ; bracts like the stipules and persistent ; flowers 

 inedium-sized. Mai£ : sepals 2, rounded ; petals 2, narrower, white ; stamens numer- 

 ous, very shortly monadelphous ; connective produced, obtuse. Female: perianth- 

 segments 5, 3 inner gradually smaller, white ; ovary glabrous ; styles 2, combined at 

 -the base, very tortuous. Capsule J-| by 1-1 i in. including the wings, often re- 

 curved in fruit, the broad wing much descending its upper edge concave; broader 

 faces first falling away. Seeds ellipsoid. 



, Vae. Meisneri, Wall. Cat. 6294; shortly caulescent, leaves linear-lanceolate very 

 tomentose on the nerves beneath.— Khasia Mts., Wdlich; alt. 3500 ft., C. B. Clarke. 

 —•Leases 2-4 by ^-^ in. ; petiole J-l|- in., pubescent, tomentose. Flowers and cap' 

 ^es like those of B. mbro-venia but smaller. Wallich's type examples look like a 

 distinct species, but the examples of C. B. Clarke connect tne tvro. 





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29. B. lacinlatay Roxh. Fl. Ind. n. 649; Caulescent, leaves roundly 

 Ovate acutely lobed with soft pubescence, petioles brown-tomentose, outer 

 perianth-segments rose-red pubescent on the back, 'ovarv pubescent. Bot. Mag. 

 ^5021 ',A.DC. Prodr. xv. pt. L 347 ; Wall. Cat. 3678; Kurz in Joum. As. 

 I^oc. 1877, pt. ii. 107. ? B. palmata, Dan Prodr. 223. B, Bowringiana, Cha^tip. 

 J^Sook. Kew Joum. iv. 120; Bot. Mag. t. 5182. 





_ NipAi to Burma ; ascending in Sikkim to 7000 ft. Vexy common in Khasu and 

 Crittagonq.— DisTRiB. South China. 



;^;, Sootstock long, creeping, neither woody nor tuberous. Stem 6-24 in., more or less 

 Brown-tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in. diam,, always more or less lobed, lobes usually 

 ^ny, caudate-acuminate, often 2 in. long, ciliate, usually but slightly serrate, 

 rounded or cordate more or less unequally at the base, pilose above, pubescent on 

 the nerves beneath and more or less villous or tomentose ; petiole 1^-4 in. ; stipules 

 4 ID., persistent, lanceolate, mucronate, pubescent. Peduncle 



one or two uppermost axils, tomentose; bracts large, obloL , — 



^ium, not very many, always more or less glandular-pubescent on the back 

 "OJn nearly white to deep rose. Male : sepals 2, long-elliptic ; petals 2, narrowly 

 ^Wate; filaments nearly free, about 50, anthers obovoid ; connective little produced, 

 obtuse. Fbmaxb: perianth-segments 5-4, inner gradually smaller; ^vary with 

 pubescent, not mere glandular, roughness; styles 2, divided from near the 

 base into 2 much contorted branches. Capsule ^ by 1 in. including the wings, 

 often recurved in fruit, with a descending wing; dehiscing by 4 hnes adjacent to, 

 *"d one on each side of. the two narrow wings. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat ob- 

 Ovoid, 



- Vab.? flava; flowers full yellow, leaves green finely serrate, ovar 

 Pubescent or nearly rfabrous.— Sikkim, alt. 5000 ft- ; J. D. H., Treutler 

 >W0 ft. alt.; c/b. aarke; Herb. Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2577) 

 species: the plant has not the brown-red tint of B. lacintata, the leaves are thinner 

 ?^d less softly hairy Alph DC. doubts the correctness of the colour of the flowers ; 

 f j« «^ full deep yellow as noted on the specimens of J. P. H. and C B. Clarke, 

 *^a as shown in the excellent figure of Cathcart preserved at Kew. t • t. 



VAB. tuberculosa • ovary with glandular tubercles not pubescent, flowers pale pink 

 ffabrous.-^Sikkim. alt. 6000 ft. : t7. i>. B., Treutler. 



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