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CHELON OPSIS mosonata. 
Native of Japan and China. 
Nat. Ord. Lasrata2.—Tribe StacuypE#. 
Genus Cuenonorsis, Mig. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 1204.) 
CuHELonopsis moschata; herba moschum spirans, rhizomate lignoso, caule 
subsimplici ascendente annotino 4-gono puberulo, foliis 3-6 poll. longis 
breviter petiolatis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis serratis supra saturate 
viridibus marginibus purpureis floralibus conformibus, verticillastris 
pauci-laxifloris, bracteis bracteolisque linearibus, floribus 14 poll. longis 
atulis, calyce inflato campanulato breviter bilabiato 5-dentato puberulo 
ructifero accrescente dentibus erectis, corolla calyce triplo longiore 
roseo-purpurea, tubo fere a hasi ampliato tereti labiis brevibus patulis 
postico retuso anticique lobis lateralibus pallide flavidis, antici lobo 
terminali ceteris multo majore roseo, filamentis gracilibus erectis basin 
versus hirsutis, antheris parvis fasciculis stellatis 3 pilorum ornatis 
quorum uno ad apicem antheres duo ad basin loculorum sitis disco 
postice tumido, styli glaberrimi lobis inequalibus subulatis, nucalis basi 
ealycis aucti campanulati sessilibus oblongis lata alatis atris. 
C. moschata, Mig. in Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. vol. ii. (1865) p. 111. Masim. 
Mel. Biol. Dec. ix. p. 443. Franch. & Sav. Enum. Pl. Jap. vol. i. p. 378. 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn, Soc. vol. xxvi. (1890) p. 298. 
The genus Chelonopsis consists of two species, that here 
figured and C. Benthamiana, Hemsl., a native of China. 
It is allied to the beautiful Melittis Melissophyllwm (the 
Bastard Balm of the British Flora) which it resembles in 
its lax axillary inflorescence and large flowers, but from 
which it differs in the lobing of the calyx, which is greatly 
enlarged in fruit, and contains nutlets and seeds of a very 
different character from those of Melittis. The singular 
tufts of stellate hairs on the anthers of C. moschata do 
not occur in the European genus. 
C. moschata is a native of the mountains of the interior 
of Japan, at elevations of two thousand to seven 
thousand feet, and of those of Ningpo in China. It is 
described by Mr. Hemsley as very variable in the shape 
and toothing of the leaves. The specimen figured was 
raiséd from seeds sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 
1898, by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of West Kirby, which 
flowered, when two feet high, in October, 1900, in the 
Temperate House, but did not mature seed. 
Jury Ist, 1901. 
