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hydathode, tapered downwards into a long narrowly 

 winged shining petiole half again as long as lamina 

 without a vagina and often reddened at base, uppei- 

 surface dark green, under surface paler, the midrib broad 

 concave above, very prominent beneath, primary veins 

 conspicuous below ; upper surface sprinkled lower surface 

 more thickly covered with nearly sessile capitate potentially 

 mealy glands. Scape slender as much as 30 cm. high mealy 

 with creamy- white meal as are the bracts and pedicels, 

 bearing a solitary terminal umbel 3-6-flowered; bracts 

 linear acuminate one-nerved about 8 mm. long 075 mm. 

 broad, brown purple ; pedicels drooping fragile about 

 15 cm. long (elongating to 9 cm. in fruit) green, anthopode 

 top-shaped at least 1 mm. long. Calyx narrow fusiform 

 about 7 mm. long almost equalling corolla-tube 5-angled 

 brown purple densely mealy outside, cut almost to base 

 into 5 lanceolate acute keeled adpressed lobes without 

 conspicuous hydathode sprinkled with meal inside at the 

 top. Corolla cream- white glabrous outside ; tube cylindric 

 smooth within, exannulate, about 8 mm. long in long- 

 styled flower tinted sometimes greenish or pink, expanding 

 into a 5-lobed funnel-shaped limb about 1 cm. long densely 

 mealy inside : lobes rounded with smooth edge emarginate 

 about 5 mm. long and broad. Stamens in long-styled 

 flower inserted about 1*75 mm. from base of corolla-tube, 

 filaments greenish expanded at base slightly shorter than 

 narrow oblong yellow anther which is about 1'5 mm. long 

 with greenish connective and short apiculus. Ovary some- 

 what top-shaped ; long style slightly exserted pale green ; 

 stigma large tinted yellow discoid depressed slightly 

 revolute. Capsule cylindric about 9 mm. long about 

 3 mm. in diameter, in lower two-thirds enclosed bj^ calyx, 

 crustaceous where exposed membranous within calyx, 

 cliestnut-brown glistening, dehiscing from the apex by 

 o valves each usually splitting into 2 teeth ; placenta 

 cj'lindric wnth short stipe 1-25 mm. long, placentiferous 

 area about 7 '5 mm. long ; seeds large flattened about 

 2 mm. long by 1'5 mm. in diameter often curved round the 

 placenta, smooth, obscurely squamous on surface, amber- 

 coloured. 



Bhutan. Ridge S.E. of Angduphorang. Alt. 13,500 ft. 



