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exceptis glabra, nervis venulisque conspicue impressis, subtus opaca, 
albido-viridia, prima visu glabra, revera nervis sparse puberulis 
mesophyllo ee atiegits puberulo, nervis prominentibus, lateralibus 
utrinque 12-14, venulis prominulis ; petioli 0°8-2 cm, longi. Cymae 
3~6-florae, bracteis duabus transversis patulis lanceolatis acutis 
primum circiter 8 mm. longis demum_ usque ad 1°5 cm. longis 
sparse ciliatis extus puberulis intus glabris ; pedicelli sub anthesi 
circiter 2°5 ¢.m. longi, villosi, demum elongati. Calyx zygomorphus; 
segmenta ovata, acute acuminata, basi ‘rotundata vel subcordata, 
2°4-2°5 cm. longa, 1*4-1°7 cm. lata, tenuia, denticulata, sparse 
ciliata, extus sparsissime puberula, intus elabra ; ; segmentum posti- 
cum caleare corollae basi repulsum valde curvatum. Corolla e calyce 
presi cremeo-albida, dorso calcarata; tubus calcare incluso 
ongus, extus breviter crispule pilosus, intus antice glabrius- 
ouilus purpureo-striatus, postice minute glanduloso-pilosus, purpureo- 
amplum, rotundatum, circiter 5 mm. ig ete limbus 3 em. latus, 
fere 3 cm. a dorso ad ventrem metiens ; lobi leviter reflexi, trans- 
verse elliptici, 1°1~-1°2 em. longi, 1°4-1°6 cm. lati. #ilamenta in 
vaginam postice fissam in calcar 3 mm. productam corollae tubo 
adnatam connata, superne antheris disjunctis spiraliter torta, autica 
longiora, vagina antice 7:5 mm. longa, lateraliter 5 mm. longa; 
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parallelis mytiliformi ibus. Déscei glandula unica, postica, 2°5 mm 
longa, sparse longiuscule ciliata. Ovarium ovoideum, 5 mm. longum, 
pilis multicellularibus acutissimis dense indutum; stylus vix 3 cm. 
longus, pilis multicellularibus acutissimis et paucioribus glanduloso- 
capitatis patule hirsutus ; placentae ad basin bipartitae, segmentis 
plano-convexis introrsum tantum ovuliferis. 
Perv. Collected by Forget for Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. 
Albans, by whom a plant was presented to Kew. The corolla is 
creamy white, with a broad band of purple blotches inside the tube 
on the posticous side and about 9 purple lines on the anticous. 
618. Staurogyne shanica, W. W. Smith {[ Acanthaceae-N elsonieae]; 
inter species orientales proxima S. delili, Clarke, ex insulis 
Philippinis, speciei imperfecte descriptae ; foliis coriaceis, subtus 
tomentellis, inflorescentia magis contracta inter alia distinguenda. 
Herba 15-20 em. alta, suberecta. Caulis simplex vel parce 
ramosus, teres, nodosus, dense fulvo-tomentellus, Folia opposita, 
lanceolata vel oblongo-lanceolata, apice obtusa, basi cuneata, 4-8 cm, 
longa, 1-2°5 em. lata, margine paululum undulata, coriacea, supra 
minute scabridula, in costa tomentella, subtus praesertim in venis 
dense tomentella, supra nervis immersis indistinctis subtus con- 
spicue reticulatim prominentibus 6~10-jugis ; petioli ad 1 cm. longi, 
tomentelli. lores in racemos terminales vel pseudo-axillares vix 
elongatos 8-15-floros dispositi ; bractea bracteolaeque duae similes, 
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