Plate 2592. 



MOSELEYA PINNATA, Ifrmsl. 



SCROPIIULARIACEiE. 



Moseleya, Hemsl. (nomen novum) ; Homemannia, Benth. olim in 

 DC. Prodr. x. p. 428, non Vahl, nee aliorum. Genus a Sibthorpia 

 differ t foliis pinnatifidis, floribus majoribus corolla distincte tubulosa. 



M. pinnata, HemsL (species unica). 



Herba perennis, pilis paucis appressis vestita. Caules gracillimi, 

 prostrati, ad nodos radicantes, nodis ssepissime 1-foliatis ac 1-pedicellatis. 

 Folia alterna, erecta, longe petiolata, teriuia, herbacea, circumscriptione 

 cordato-ovata vel interdum fere rotundata, absque petiolo |-1J> poll, 

 longa, pinnatisecta, segmentis srepissiine 5 obovato-rotundatis lobulato- 

 crenatis ; petiolus gracilis, 2-5 poll, longus. Pedicelli axillares, solitarii, 

 graciles, erecti, folia fere sequantes, post anthesin retracti, spiraliter 

 torti, fructiferi humo appress'". Flores albi, tenuissimi, 6-9 lin. dia- 

 raetro. Calyx sequalis, alte 5-lobatus, lobis erectis ovato-lanceolatis 

 yix acutis. Corolla obscure bilabiata, infundibuliforniis, tubo brevi 

 intus hirsuto, lobis 5 parum imequalibus. Stamina 4 (postico de- 

 ticiente), sequalia, fauce corolke inserts, erecta, quam corolla lobi 

 breviora, filamentis filiformibus glabris. Discus carnosus, oblique 

 cupularis. Ovarium ovoideum, supra medium hirtellum, stylo filiformi 

 vix exserto ; ovula in quoque loculo circiter 10. Capsida matura 

 ignota. — Ilornemannia pinnata, Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. p. 428 ; 

 Sibthorpia pinnata, Benth. ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 288. 



China : Damp woods on the Great Black Mountain, at 9000 feet, 

 Mengtse, Yunnan, Hancock, 302. Also from Nepal, Wallich : and 

 Tonglo, Sikkim, at 8500 feet, C. B. Clarke, 35,733. 



The excellent specimens of this plant presented to Kew by W. Han- 

 cock Esq., of the Imperial Chinese Customs, enable us to figure and 

 describe it much more fully than was previously possible. It is here 

 restored to generic rank, because it is so very different from all the 

 genuine species of Sibthorpia. It is named in memory of the late 

 Professor H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., who, although not a trained botanist, 

 did good service for Botany on the voyage of the 'Challenger.'— 



W. Bottixg Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, pistil, disk and part of calyx ; 2, a hair from the ealyx ; 3, a corolla laid 

 open ; 4, a hair from the corolla ; 5, a longitudinal tangential section through one of 

 the ceils of the ovary ; 6, a cross section of the ovary. All enlarged. 



