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One other plant has been put in Noraocharis. Leveill6 

 in 1913 publislied the name A^omocJuiris Mairei. Of this 

 species all that Leveille says is : — ^ 



" Scarcely 2 ft. high. Separated from N. meleagriiia 

 by its ovate leaves verticillate excepting the lower which 

 are opposite ; white terminal flowers ; clavate stigma. 

 Distinguished from N. 'j'cirdantjiiiia by its broad leaves 

 and abruptly acuminate corolline segments. 



"Yunnan: — Pastures of the plateau of Ta-hai, 3200 m., 

 fl. white spotted black (internal divisions). E. E. Maire. 

 July 1912." 



We have at Edinburgh specimens (No. 269, Herb. Edin.) 

 obtained from Abbe Maire in 1913 bearing the same ticket, 

 and it is without doubt the plant which Leveille has named. 

 Ta-hai is in N.E. Yunnan, about long. 103° 10' and lat. 

 26° 55'. In addition, we have the same plant in specimens 

 (No. 107, Herb. Edin.) obtained from Abbe Maire, also in 

 1913, — labelled "Pastures of the summits at Pe-long-tsin. 

 Alt. 3200 m., fl. white. E. E. Maire. July"— from the 

 same region. I believe I know, therefore, what Leveille 

 had before him. 



Maire's specimens do not tit Franchet's description of 

 N. meleag7'ina. Prominent and valid differences are the 

 shorter leaves, not long-acuminate ; the much shorter flower- 

 pedicels, not 4 cm. long — they are 15 cm. in N. meleagrina ; 

 the smaller white flowers with dissimilar sepaline and 

 petaline segments; the toothed and fringed petals. 



The two characters — broader leaves and abruptly 

 acuminate corolla segments — by which Leveille separates 

 N. Mairei from N. pardanthvna would not alone, if they 

 existed, suffice as speciflc marks. As matter of fact, the 

 petals of N. pardantJrina are as abruptly acuminate as 

 are those in Maire's plant, and the difference in leaf-width 

 seems to be hardly appreciable. Maire's plant is not N. 

 pardanthhia, but Leveille has not got hold of the dis- 



1 Leveille in Fedde Eepert. xii (1913), 287 :— 



Nowocharin Mairei. — Vix bipedalis. A N. mdeagrina folia ovata, 



inferiorilnis ojjjxjsitis exceptis, verticilluta ; tlores all)i terniinnles ; 

 stigma clavatiuii illam plantain secernnni. A N. fiardanlhiiia foliis 

 latis et folioli.s corolliuis abrupte acuniinuLis dignoscitur. 



Ynn-Nan : Paturages du plateau de Ta-Hai, 3200 m., il. blanches 



mouclieteen de noir (divisions internes), juill. 1912 (E. E. Maire). 



