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vel globosa, compressa, 2°5 mm. longa, laevia, fusca. 
A very singular species, with rose-purple flowers difficult of 
6. I. latebracteata, Hk. f, sp.nov. 3 ; 
SZECHUAN OCCIDENT. oacs Yah, locis humidis, alt. 1200- 
1800 m., EL. H. Wilson in Herb. Arnold Arboret., no, 3066, et 
Kew. 
sensim attenuatum, totum incurvum, ad 2 cm. ongum, Filamenta 
brevissima, lata ; antherae late ovatae, acutae. Ovarium fusiforme, 
acuminatum, rectum. Capsulae 1°5-2 em. longae, erectae, anguste 
ellipsoideae, utrinque attenuatae, acutae, oligospermae. Semina 
oblonga vel obovoidea, 4-4°5 mm. longa, fere laevia, fusco-castanea. 
The remarkably large, orbicular, sessile, toothed bracts on the 
middle of the pedicels are totally dissimilar to those of any other 
Asiatic species known to me. 
e following four species in Mr. Wilson’s collection were known 
to me from specimens obtained by earlier travellers ; they are :— 
7. I. desmantha, Hk. 7. in Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, 
ser, 4, x. (1908) 248. : . B= 
SZECHUAN OCCIDENT. Tatienlu bor. orient., locis humidis, alt. 
2280 m., E. H. Wilson in Herb. Arnold Arboret., no. 3056, et Kew. 
Primum in sylvis San-tcha-no prov. Yunnan ab Abbate Delavay 
detecta ; recentius in Mont. Tali alt. 2400-2700 m., a G. Forrest, 
no. 4274 et in Mont. Lichiang, alt. 2850-3300 m. er h 
The Szechuan specimens have longer points to the leaves than 
those from Yunnan, - on 
8. I. corchorifolia, Franch. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France xxxut MESO), 
443; Hk. f. in Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, ser. 4, x. 261. 
Szecuuan occrpEenT. Wa-shan, alt. 1500-1800 m, £. H. 
Wilson in Herb, Arnold Arboret., no, 3064, et Kew. 
