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obtusis.  Inflorescentiae amplae axi primaria crassa sulcata, 
umbellis numerosis compositae; bracteae late vaginatae, lamina 
pinnatisecta ; 3; pedunculi 5-15 cm. longi. Flores unisexuales, 
monoici vel dioici. Florum masculorum radii numerosi, graciles 
m 
flores vix excedentes. Fructus ad 1°5 cm, longus, 1 cm. latus, 
calycis dentibus ac stylis minutis ; mericarpia saepissime difformia, 
alterum bialatum, alterum trialatum, alis circiter 5 mm. latis; vittae 
inconstantes, sed saepius 3 taneR ok Pe 2 vel3 hie valleculis 
bivittatis, costales latissimae, vel interdum deficientes.—Ligusticum 
Dieffenbachii, es t., Handb. Fl. New Zeal. p. 729. Gingidium 
Dieffenbachii, F, M ell., A Chath. Is. p. 17. t. 1. Aeciphylla 
Dieffenbachii, Kirk, “Student Fl. New Zeal. p. 211; Cheesm. 
Man. N.Z. Flora, p. 214. Angled Dieffenbachiz, Benth, ex Hook. 
f., Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 916 ; Cheeseman, 1. c. 1139 
CHATHAM IsLANDS. Travers, Cox and others. 
Mr. Cheeseman will describe this plant more fully in another 
plac or a figure of the habit oo - plant and some other 
particulars see Kew Bulletin 1910, p. 1 
593. Ophiorrhiza Lacei, Crazb a een species 
nova O. Thomsoni, Hook. f., similis a qua inflorescentia haud glabra 
facile distinguenda. 
Her 1 cm. alta, caule puberulo. Folia parum inaequalia, 
oblongo-elliptica “a ovato-lanceolata, apice acutiuscula, mucronata, 
rarissime acuminata, basi attenuata, 3°5-10°'5 cm. longa, 1°6-—4 em 
lata, membranacea, supra parce setulosa vel glabra, subtus ad nervos 
minute puberula, nervis lateralibus ee 10-13 intra marginem 
arcuatis utrinque conspicuis; petioli 0°5-2°5 em. longi, minute 
puberuli ; stipulae deciduae. Cymae Gacninelen, sore 2—5°5 em. 
0°5—0°8 cm. longae. Receptaculum campanu ulatum, arvum, puberu- 
lum. Calycis lobi minuti, deltoidei. Corollae purpureae tubus 
circiter 4 mm. longus, superne leviter a extus parce 
puberulus; lobi 1°5 mm. longi, vix 1 . lati. Capsula late 
obcordata, minute puberula. 
Inpo-Cuina. Upper Burma: Gokteik Gorge, 450 m., Lace, 
4151. 
594. Adenosacme chasalioides, Crazh [Rubiaceae-Mussaendeae] ; 
ab A. longifoliae, Wall., var. sinensi, Hemsl., sepalis integris recedit. 
Sufrutex floribus gs exptid omnino glaber ; caules cortice stram- 
ineo nitido obtecti. Folia lanceolata, apice acuminata, acuta, basi 
in petiolum 0°5—2 cm. longum attenuata, 6-23 cm. longa, 1°8-5°5 em. 
lata, tenuiter chartacea, supra vitidia, subtus pallidiora, nervis 
lateralibus utrinque 10-18 intra marginem arcuatis pagina utraque 
cum nervis transversis conspicuis ; stipulae subpersistentes, foliaceae, 
6-7 mm. longae, 4 mm. latae. Paniculae terminales; bracteae 
parvae, deciduae ; pedicelli circiter 3 mm. longi. Receptaculum 
glabrum, subhemisphericum ; sepala pons rs! Moers lanceolata 
vel late tancaclate: acuta vel fere acuminata, 3-3°5 mm. longa, 
1-1°5 mm. lata, glabra. Corollae tubus 1°6 cm. eat extra glaber, 
intra parce pilosus, lobi sub anthesi reflexi, late deltoidei, subacu- 
minati, 1*5 mm, longi, 2°5 mm. lati, Stamina inclusa, apicem versus 
