Tas. 7800. 
CALORHABDOS cavroprera. 
Native of China. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINE#.—Tribe DIGITALEZ. 
Genus Catornanpos, Benth.; (Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 963 (ex 
parte.) 
CaLorHaspos cauloptera: herba erecta, fauce corolle excepta glaberrima, 
caule gracili subsimplici anguste tetraptero, foliis alternis breviter petio- 
latis ovate-lanceolatis acuminatis argute serrulatis basi acutis, racemo 
spiciforme terminali erecto 6-8 poll. longa multi-densifloro, rhachi tetra- 
gona, floribus brevissime pedicellatis unibracteatis bractea ovato-lanceolata 
calyce subequilonga, calycis ¢ poll. longi segmentis Janceolatis erecto- 
patulis, corolla deflexa 4 poll. lata ad medium 5-loba rubro-purpurea, 
fauce annulo lato villoso aucto, lobo postico late ovato depresso apice 
bidenticulato, ceteris minoribus ovatis acuminatis patulis, staminibus 2 
erectis, antheris didymis aureis, capsula calyci squilonga ovvidea 
bisulcata polysperma loculicida, valvis bipartitis, seminibus ovoideis. 
C. cauloptera, Hance in Trimen Journ. Bot. vol. xv. (1877) p. 298. Hems!. in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. vol. xxvi. (1890) p. 195; in Hook. Ic. Pl. vol. xxvii. 
sub t. 2669. 
The genus Calorhabdos was founded by Bentham on a 
Nepalese plant closely allied to Veronica, C. Bruno- 
niana (see Hook. Ic. Plant. t. 2669), to which was 
subsequently added a Chinese and Japanese, C. avillaris. 
Of these the latter has been regarded as the type 
of a distinct genus (Botryoplewron) by Mr. Hemsley, 
differing from C. Brunoniana in habit and in its axillary 
spikes. Three additional species of Botryopetalum, 
all Chinese, have since been discovered, confirming 
the validity of the genus (see Hemsley, l.c. t. 2670); 
and the Nepalese C. Brunoniana has been found by the 
Abbé Delavay in the province of Yunnan, in China, though 
in no intermediate locality, and a second species of Calor- 
habdos, the subject of this plate, has been added to it. 
CG. cauloptera is a native of the provinces of Ichang and 
Kwangtung. Seeds of it were sent to the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, in 1896, by Dr. Henry, plants raised from which 
flowered in a greenhouse in August, 1900. It is remarkable 
for its four-winged stem and four-angled rachis of the 
spike ; those organs in C. Brunoniana, and in all the species 
of Botryopleuron being perfectly terete. 
OctToser lst, 1901. 
