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208 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
А larger plant with erect, unbranched stems and larger flowers, 
merging into M. nepalensis through such specimens as Clarke 
12114 from Sikkim. It closely resembles M. dentatus, a Pacific 
Coast species, differing from it mainly in having a smaller and 
less ampliate corolla which is not constricted at the base of the 
throat. 
Distribution: in wet places in Sikkim, India. 
Specimens examined: 
India: Sikkim Himalaya, 1 Aug., 1892, Gammie (U. S., TYPE); 
Sikkim, 4000-10000 ft. alt., 1848-49, Hooker (С). 
36. M. Bodinieri Vaniot in Bull. Acad. Geog. Bot. 15: 86. 
1905. 
Low, glabrous, creeping perennials, freely rooting from the 
nodes; stems prostrate or procumbent, 1-2 dm. long, simple or 
with short branches, quadrangular, the angles more or less 
winged; leaves broadly ovate, 1-3 em. long, .5-1.5 em. wide, 
acute, mucronate, minutely and sparsely denticulate, pinnately 
veined, sessile by a broad, clasping subcordate base, rarely 
short-petioled; flowers few, axillary, pedicels weak, longer than 
the leaves; calyx campanulate, 6-10 mm. long, ciliate, throat 
slightly oblique, teeth short, broadly triangular, mucronate, 
corolla yellow, 1.3-1.5 em. long, throat exserted, lobes nearly 
equal, slightly spreading; style included, glabrous, stigma-lips 
equal; capsule obovate, obtuse; seeds subglobose. 
Distribution: in standing water, southern China. 
Specimens examined: 
China: Yunnan, near Likiang, about 8500 ft. alt., 8 July, 1914; 
Schneider 1771 (U. S.); in the region of Likiang, near Peg: 
Ngu-lch-keh, about 8700 ft. alt., 18 July, 1914, Schneider 1863 
(U. 8.). 
. 37. M. sessilifolius Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. рик 
20: 436. 1875; Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ed. 2, 2: Suppl. ^*^ 
1886. 
A glabrous or almost glabrous perennial, stems erect or тте | 
somewhat quadrangular; leaves broadly ovate, 2-17 9n. d 
1.5-3 em. wide, closely sessile, 5—7-nerved from the base, lo 
acute, upper smaller and obtuse or rounded above, all salien 
