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NEW BOMBAY SPECIES. 



By L. J. Sedgwick. 



Leucas angustissima L. J. Sedgwick, Sp. nova. Herba saxi- 

 cola, erecta, ad 30 cm alta. Radix lignosa. Gaulis lignosus, a basi ra- 

 mosus. Rami secundi, virgati, angusti, quadrangulares et quadri-sul- 

 cati. Folia perangusfca, linearia, ad 30 x 3 mm, marginibus revolutis. 

 Verticelli omnes axillares, paucitiori. Pedicilli perbreves. Calyx 6 mm 

 longus, sensim curvatus, bucciniformis, extus minutissime hispidus, 

 intus glaber ; os obliquum, nudum, supra productum ; dens superior 

 sublongus, ceteri perbreves. Corolla pro rata magna, conspicua; tuba 

 5 mm longa ; labium superius 3 mm longum et latum, villo albo indu- 

 tum ; labium inferius deflexum, patens, conspicuum, 9 mm longum, 

 infra puberulum ; lobi 3 ; lobi laterales angusti, decurvati; lobus medi- 

 us 7 mm latus, emarginatus. 



In patentibus saxis, prope Gairsoppa Falls in Canara in provincia 

 Bombaiensi, ad alt. circa 1500 ped. angl. et pluv. circa 100 digit, angl., 

 Sedg. et Bell 7234, Nov. 1919 ; et apud Siddbapur in eadem regione 

 .Sedg. et Bell 7255, eodem mense ; cotypi in Herb. Coll. Sanct. Xavie- 

 ri, Bombay. Invenit quoque in Herb. Talbot, 3740 a Siddhapur. 



A very distinct species, witb tbe habit and conspicuous flowers 

 of L. longifolia Bentb., but a very different calyx, resembling a small 

 form of the calyx of L. linijolia Spreng. 



Christisonia flammea L. J. Sedgwick, Sp. nova. Eerba 

 humilis, in Strobilanthis radicibus parasitica. Caules aggregati, demum 

 erecti, tantundem elongati ut flores e tellure emergant, 4 mm lati. 

 Squamulae 5x4 mm, distantes, ovatae, obtusae. Flores in racemis 

 congestis, corymbiformibus ; bracteae squamulis assimiles, sed majores : 

 bracteolae 2. Pedicilli 0, vel ad 2 cm longi. Calyx rufo-brunneus, 

 dense et conspicue puberulus ; tuba ad 2 cm longa, 1 cm lata, penta- 

 gona ; lobi 5, aequales, triangulares, 5 mm longi. Corolla aureo-lutea, 

 ad 5 cm longa, bucciniformis ; tuba a medio inflata, extus dense pu- 

 berula ; lobi 5, aequales, curtissimi, perobtusi, demum patentes. Sta- 

 mina corollae dimidio aequantia, didynama ; filamentaalba, puberula ; 

 antherae conniventes, crescentiformes ; loculus superior apice infra 

 porum subulatus ; loculus inferior sterilis, commatiformis. Stylus 

 stamina longe excedens, albus, glaber; stigma bilobum ; lobi crassi, 

 rotundati. Ovarium biloculare. Capsula globosa, 12 mm lata, styli 

 basi persistonte apiculata. (See Fig. p. 127.) 



