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MICROULA BENTHAMI, (. B. Clarke. 
BoraGine&z. Subtribe EritricHiez. 
M. Benthami, 0. B. Clarke in Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 167; herba 
acaulis v. nonnunquam ramulos laterales breves emittens, foliis 
rosulatis patentibus ovali- v. spathulato-oblongis basi angustatis v. 
distincte petiolatis obtusis setoso-dentatis v. repando-serratis scabride 
hispidis et parce setosis setis tuberculo insidentibus cymis contractis, 
pedunculis crassis vai genes folio multo brevioribus bracteatis iteratim 
divisis, bracteis foliacei 
floribus sessilibus v. dievinsais pedicellatis, ae temp. florif. 5- fidi 
tubo campanulato-turbinato glabro v. parce setoso, lobis ovato-oblongis 
dorso setulosis, corolle rotate tubo calycem squante lobis rotandatia 
Has. Tibet, 15,000-18,000 feet, Thomson; Strachey and Winter- 
bottom, Thorold. 
Radiz ep ir v. parce ramosa Paes elongata. Folia majora 1-3 
poll. longa, 4-3 poll. lata. Flores } poll. diam. Bractee ultima ob- 
lounge y. lineari i-oblonge setulose floribas breviores. Anthere tubo 
abet insert, elliptico-oblonge ; filamentum breve. Stylus temp. 
orif, ovarium superans (2-3-plo ira ; stigma parvum truncatum 
bbbeapitatlata re. 
The genus Tretocarya of ri ponttlnge (Mél. Biol. xi.; Diag. Plan 
ov. Asiaticarum iv. 2 1881), of which we possess specim 
collected by M. Przewalski in Northern Tibet, singularly nacitiea 
the above plant in almost every particular. But I find no trace, on 
the back of the nucules of Microula, of the ‘ fovea parva émmarginata * 
characteristic of those of Tretocarya. In the absence of fairly mature 
help suspecting that Tretrary may prove to be a form of the plant 
hy figur red.—D. Our 
g.1. Flower. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla, laid open. 4. Pistil. 4. Nut, back and 
bg view. 6. Same, laid open. Ali enlarged. 
