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straw-coloured and more or less raised provided \\ith 

 vestiges of glands and hairs, primary veins and the 

 reticulation of the veinlets somewhat prominent, the whole 

 surface clad with a thin somewhat scurfy stratum of 

 indumentum consisting of manj^-armed hairs with red 

 branches radiating and spreading from a sessile umbo ; 

 petiole thick as much as 2 cm. long glabrescent grooved 

 above and showing more, or less vestiges of hairs. Flowers 

 in a racemose umbel about 20-flowered the axis of inflor- 

 escence about 2 cm. long and covered with glands and 

 greasy hairs; fertile bracts about 3 cm. long by 1'3 cm. 

 broad submembranaceous oblong-obovate or obovate- 

 spathulate apiculate whitel}^ sericeous both outside and 

 inside with a few glands intermixed ; bracteoles linear 

 chatfy adpressed-pilose about 1 cm. long ; pedicels about 

 1'2 cm. lono- reddish-brown and denselv clavate-glandular. 

 Calyx small about 3 mm. long cupular, outside densely 

 glandular 7-lobed ; lobes rounded or ovate or deltoid 

 glandular and gland-fimbriate. Corolla rose-coloured 

 emaculate on the back but with a large basal crimson 

 blotch tubular-campanulate large about 5 cm. long exceed- 

 ing the .stamens and gynaeceum, outside glabrous eglandular, 

 inside copiously puberulous ; lobes 5-7 rounded emarginate 

 somewhat crenulate about 2 cm. long by 2-4 cm. broad. 

 Stamens 10-12 unequal longer about 3-8 cm. long, shorter 

 about 2'7 cm. long; anthers brown about 4 mm. long; 

 filaments widening downwards and from their base to the 

 apex of the ovary pubescent. Disk greasily floccose. 

 Gynaeceum about 4*5 cm. long ; ovary cylindric-conoid 

 grooved about 6 mm. long by 35 nun. in diameter black- 

 ening clavate-glandular occasionally coated at the base 

 with a few greasy hairs ; style thick glandular through- 

 out ; stigma large broad discoid lobulate. 



W. Yunnan : — Head of the Taipungpu valley. Alt. 

 7000-8000 ft. Lat. 25' 30' N. In oak and pine forest. 

 Shrub of 10-15 ft. Flowers rose. G.Forrest. No. 9920. 

 iMay 1913. 



W. Yunnan :— Descent to the Yangpi valley. Alt. 9000 ft. 

 Lat. 25' 40' N. Margins of forests. Shrub of 30 ft. Flowers 

 deep rose, without markings. G. Forrest. No. 12,389. 

 April 1914. 



