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Flowers axillary long-pedicellate; pedicel 15 cm. long 

 arcuate-patent equalling or exceeding the leaves. Perianth 

 rose with equally and densely distributed broadish red- 

 fuscous spots on all the segments, 7-9 cm. in diameter 

 widely open, almost plane ; calycine segments quite entire 

 ovate lanceolate acute or shorth' acuminate; petaline 

 segments scarcely broader than calycine and equalling 

 them in length, sparingly and subtly erose above ; crest 

 of the basilar nectar-gland deep red-fuscous, fan-shaped, 

 variously incised. Stamens one-fifth the length of perianth. 

 Style as long as ovary ; stigma globose obscurely lobed. 



" N.W. Yunnan :— Mt. Sela, banks of the Mekong. R. P. 

 Soulie. No. 1032." 



By description and by Franchet's comments we can 

 recognise that this N. meleagrina is markedly different 

 from X. ijardanthina in the much larger leaves, apparently 

 15 cm. long, which are not wliorled in upper part of the 

 stem ; long pedicels as long as the leaves ; larger flowers ; 

 perianth-segments equal in length and breadth ; all the 

 perianth - segments equally and densely spotted ; faint 

 erosion only of upper part of petaline segments; stamens 

 only one-fifth of length of perianth. It is clearly also not 

 the same as iV^. leucantha. 



Of its characters, that which is of importance as a 

 criticism of the generic characters founded upon i\^. 

 pardanthina is the slight dissimilarity of the sepaline 

 and petaline segments : — they are similarly spotted, of 

 equal length and breadth, and the petaline segments are 

 scarcely erose on the margin above. 



longe peduneulati, pedunculis 15 cent, loiigi, arcuato-patentibus, folia 

 aequantibus vel superantibus ; perianthium (diam. 7-9 cent.) late 

 apertum, fere planum, roseum cum maculis latiusculis, rubro-fuscis, in 

 omnibus foliolis aeqiie ac dense distributis; foliola calycina integerrima 

 ovato-lanceolaLa, acuta vel breve acuminata ; foliola corollina calycinis 

 vix latiora, illis aecjuilonga, superue parce et subtiliter erosa ; cristae 

 basilares intense ruljro-fuscae, llabelliformes, varie incisae ; stamina 

 perianthio 5-plo breviora ; stylus ovarii longitudine, stigmate obscure 

 lobato, globoso. 



Hab. — La Chine occidentale : province de Se-tchuen, .siir les montagnes 

 de Sela, sur les bords du Mekong (R. P. Soulie, n. 1032). 



Differe du iV. pardanthina par ses feuilles j)lus grandes, eparses, et 

 surtout par son perianthe dont les divisions sont egales et toutes couvertes 

 de taches brunes, les trois interieures a peine erodees sur les bords. 

 Dans le N. pardanthina, les trois divisions interieures sont presque 

 arrondies, incisees-erodees dans leur moitie superieure. 



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