278 TRANSACTIONS OF THE [Sess. lxxxii 



acuminate at summit and there ciliate-fringed, downwards 

 through one half or more dentate-fringed, entire below, 

 base with two nectar-glands one on each side of midrib, 

 each covered by a fan-shaped incised or crested dark purple- 

 red flap. Stamens about IQ cm. long; swollen base of 

 filament deep purple about 9 mm. long, subulate apex 

 about 3 mm. long ; anther about 8 mm. long shortly 

 apiculate, dorsifixed about 3 mm. from base. Gynaeceum 

 about r7 cm. long; ovary oblong wider towards top; style 

 clavate below the trumpet-shaped 3-lobed stigma. 



Mid. W. Yunnan : — Tali Range. Eastern flank. Grassy 

 situations on the margins of pine forests. Alt. 11,000- 

 12,000 ft. Lat. 25° 40' N. Plant of 18-24 ins. Flowers 

 watery white, blotched and spotted pale purple, base 

 of perianth deep purplish - maroon, faintly fragrant. 

 G. Forrest. No. 3845. June 1906. 



Mid. W. Yunnan : — Tali Range. Eastern flank. Pasture 

 on the margins of pine forests. Alt. 12,000-13,000 ft. 

 Lat. 25° 40' N. Plant of 18-30 ins. Flowers satiny white 

 spotted crimson-maroon. G. Forrest. No. 7160. Sept. 

 1910. 



Mid. W. Yunnan:— Tali Range. Alt. 11,000 ft. Lat. 

 25° 40' N. G. Forrest. No. 11,624. Aug. 1913. Dup. 

 of 1906-1910. 



The chief points of diff'erence between this species and 

 N. pardanthina are : — a more robust and taller plant ; the 

 much longer and broader long-acuminate leaves ; the white 

 flowers with all the segments spotted purple or maroon. 



This FoT-restian species conforms well with the characters 

 of Nomocharis as given first of all by Franchet. It is 

 otherwise witli a species placed in the genus by Franchet 

 in 1898 with the name N. meleagrina. I have not seen 

 N. meleagrina, Franch., and can only give here Franchet's 

 account of it. 



X meleagrina, Franch. in Journ. de Bot. xii (1898), 196.^ 



" Many feet high. Leaves linear lanceolate long- 

 acuminate, upper sparse (middle and lower wanting). 



1 Franchet's description runs : — 



Xomocharis meleagrina. — Phiripedalis ; folia lineari-lanceolata, longe 

 acuminata, superi(jra sparsa (inferiora et media ilesunt) ; llores axillares, 



