21(3 TRAXSACTIOXS OF THE [Sess. lxxxi 



outer sterile bracts ovate or somewhat rounded thick and 

 coriaceous tliinner at the margin, outside pubescent or 

 somewhat sericeous and at the apex sparingly red-gland- 

 ular : fertile bracts obovate-spathulate truncate or rounded 

 and mucronate at the apex as much as 2'6 cm. long 1"6 cm. 

 broad outside densely and coarsely adpressed-pilose; bracte- 

 oles filiform rustj^-red about To cm. long much longer than 

 the pedicels and silkily hairy ; pedicels about 7 mm. long 

 thick furnished more or less with rufous greasy lloccose 

 hairs. Calyx minute about To mm. long cupular glabrous 

 or sprinkled with a few greasy rufous iioccose hairs ; 

 lobes scarcely conspicuous deltoid or ovate efimbriate. 

 Corolla crimson campanulate about 4'o cm. long glabi'ous 

 outside and inside with a large dark crimsom blotch at 

 the back without any spots, at the base 5-gibbous and 

 retuse, 5-lobed ; lobes about 2 cm. long and 2*5 cm. broad, 

 somewhat elliptic or rounded emarginate and somewhat 

 crenulate. Stamens 10 unequal the longer about 3'6 cm. 

 long with anthers about 4 mm. long, the shorter about 

 1'6 cm. long with anthers about 3 mm. long; fila- 

 ments dilated at the base and glabrous. Disk glabrous. 

 Gynaeceum about 3"6 cm. long; ovary conoid slightly 

 sulcate blackening obscurely and transversely areolate 

 about 5 mm. long most sparingly sprinked with greasy 

 red fioccose hairs ; style glabrous scarcely expanded under 

 the purple lobulate stigma. 



S.E. Yunnan : — Fengchenlin Mountains. 7500 ft. Tree 

 20 ft. Flowers crimson. Henry. No. 10,853. Herb. 

 Edin. et Kew. 



Rk. spanotriclmm is one of the Henry an plants from 

 the region of Mengtsz, formerly regarded by Hemsley and 

 "Wilson ^ as RJt. irroraturn, Franch. They point out, how- 

 ever, that it differs " from typical Rh. irroratuvi in 

 the filaments and ovary being glabrous or nearly so." 

 Subsequently Relider and Wilson ^ brought it more correctly 

 to the vicinity of Rh. fjymita7ithuon, Diels. See under 

 RJo. rnengtszense, p. 209. 



The plant is neither Rli.gyriinanthi'in nor lili. irroratuon. 

 It has in .some measure the glaucousness of foliage that 



' In Kew J3ulle1,iii (1910), 112. 



•^ Flautae Wilsouianae, i (1913), 539. 



