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segments with glandular hairs at the apex and simple ones elsewhere. 
Tube of corolla 22 mm. long, barely "5 mm. in diameter; limb about 
19 mm. in diameter. Cells of the anthers 1:8 mm. long. Ovary 
oblong, glabrous, 1 mm. long. 
Easily distinguished from L. parviflora Lindl., with which it is 
liable to be confused, by the thyrsoid inflorescence and the smaller 
white or pale mauve corollas. 
Mrs. Talbot tells me the flowers are also sometimes pink. Ono of 
the Holland labels at Kew gives the flowers as ** white," the other as 
“ pink, yellow centre." 
Phaylopsis Talbotii S. Mooresp. nov. Planta herbacea erecta 
ramosa ramis gracilibus paucifoliosis glanduloso-pubescentibus cito 
glabrescentibus ; foliis parvis longipetiolatis ellipticis obtusis basi 
longiuseule extenuatis necnon obliquis tenuiter membranaceis 
supra sparsim strigilloso-pilosis subtus in nervis puberulis ceterum 
glabris; cymis mox sparsis tandem distantibus prima juventute 
solummodo strobilum referentibus; foliis floralibus subor- 
bicularibus basi rotundato-truncatis apice obtusissimis dorso 
glanduloso-puberulis margine pilis longis simplieibus glandulosis 
intermixtis hirsuto-ciliatis ; calycis segmento postico ovato acuto 
eleganter reticulato-nervoso decolori ut segmenta cetera anguste 
lineari-lanceolata obtuse acuta glanduloso-pubescente ; corollae 
parvulae tubo cylindrico limbo bilabiato quam tubus breviore ; 
antheris inclusis, loculis basi obscure mucronulatis ; ovario anguste 
ovoideo apice ipso ut stylus omnino piloso. 
Oban ; n. 977. 
Branches up to nearly 40 em. in length, throwing out at intervals 
shorter branchlets, bearing leaves in the axils of many of which are 
cymes. Blade of leaf usually 8:5-5:0 em. long, 15 mm. broad, or 
somewhat less in the widest part, the uppermost few reduced in size ; 
petioles slender, indeed almost filiform, up to 2 cm. in length, though 
mostly shorter. Cymes soon separated by distances of 8-4 mm. or 
more, the oldest ultimately some 2 cm. apart. Floral leaves about 
8 x 7 mm., pale greenish-yellow, the nervation prominent upon the 
back. Hind segment of calyx 6:5 x 38:5 mm.; front segments 
5 mm., lateral pair 4:5 mm. long. Corolla barely 5 mm. long, the 
tube rather more than 75 mm. broad; upper lip 1 mm. long, divided 
to the middle into two broadly oblong obtuse lobes; lower lip 
1:5 mm. long, the mid lobe "75 x "75 mm., lateral lobes as long but 
a little narrower. Anthers "5 mm. long. Ovary 1 mm. long, style 
scarcely 2:5 mm. Capsule acute or acuminate, 5 mm. long, attenuated 
base 1 mm. long. 
Near P. obliqua T. And., but at once distinguished from it by its 
broad floral leaves. 
Crossandra Talbotii S. Moore sp. nov. Verisimiliter suffrutex 
caule erecto valido pallide fulvo-tomentoso ; foliis petiolatis anguste 
obovato-oblongis obtusis vel obtusissimis basi cordatis mem- 
branaceis supra glabris subtus in nervis pubescentibus; spicis 
cylindricis folia subaequantibus multifloris ; bracteis ovato-oblongis 
