Linnsean Herbarium is so bad, that it was with great 

 difficulty that I determined their structure. The Sikkim 

 specimens were distributed under No. 89, those of Lfalcifer 

 are numbered 88. 



Lfalcifer is a rather common species in pastures and 

 shaded places of the Sikkim Himalaya, at elevations of 

 eight to ten thousand feet. The figure here given is from 

 plants raised at Kew from seeds received by the writer in 

 1902 from Major Prain, Superintendent of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, which flowered in a frame in 

 May of the present year, but failed to ripen seed. 



Descr. — A weak, glabrous, usually decumbent, branched 

 annual, one to two feet high or long. Leaves one to four 

 inches long, alternate, sessile, or petioled, ovate, or ovate- 

 lanceolate, serrate, acuminate, base acute, or narrowed 

 into a petiole an inch long or shorter; margins minutely 

 ciliolate, eglandular ; stipular glands minute, pulvinate. 

 Peduncles solitary, simple, one-flowered, and bracteolate in 

 the middle, never at the base, very rarely forked and two- 

 flowered, with a bracteole on one or more of the pedicels, 

 cleflexed in fruit. Flowers ringent, one to one and a half 

 inches long, golden-yellow, spotted with blood-red on the 

 standard, and on the falcate lobule of the distal lobe of the 

 lip. Sepals two, one-seventh to one-fourth of an inch 

 long, broadly ovate, or sub-orbicular, cuspidate, green. 

 Standard erect, galeate, trapezoid when spread out, mucro- 

 nate. Wivg-petal with a small basal lobe, and a large, 

 spreading distal of two divaricate lobules ; a lower lobule 

 linear-oblong, falcateiy recurved, and a much larger, 

 oblong terminal one, rounded at the tip. Lip with a 

 small, funnel-shaped limb, narrowed into a straight, slender, 

 incurved or straight spur, one half to one inch long. 

 Capsule one to one and three-quarters of an inch long, 

 slender, strict, terete, pendulous. Seeds small, testa 

 rucrose. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1, portion of stem and petiole with stipulary gland ; 2, portion of leaf- 

 margin ; 3, sepal; 4, wing-petal ; 5, young capsule :— all enlarged. 



