PLATE 2636 
ONOSMA EXSERTUM, J/emsi. 
BorAGINACES. 
0. exsertum, Hemsl. (sp. nov.); species ob stamina longe exserta 
distincta. 
Herba 4-5. pedalis, caulibus erectis infra inflorescentiam simplicibus 
cavis sulcatis hispidis. Folia radicalia ignota, caulina sessilia, sed 
haud semiamplexicaulia, crassiuscula, vix coriacea, lieari-lanceolata, 
usque ad 9 poll. longa, maxima vix 1} poll. lata, utrinque attenuata, 
acuta, pilis basi tnorannitie strigoso- = ida et precipue subtus pubes- 
centia. ores cymosi, longiuscule pedicellati, in paniculam terminalem 
angustam circiter pedalem ° di ispositi, bracteis foliaceis parvis. Sepula 
fere libera, crassa, rigida, hispida, erecta, lineari- oblonga, circiter 3 Jin. 
longa, obtusa. orolla inflato- -hypocrateriformis, 4-5 lin. longa, extus 
intusque piliectila, limbi lobis minutis deltoideis. Stamina circiter 
lin. supra corolla xserta, filamentis filiformibus glabris paullo 
basin corolle liberis, antheris linearibus fere 3 lin. longis. 
Secnie oblique ovoidee, glabree, eves, 
Cuina: on grassy hills near Mengtze, Yunnan, at 6,000 feet, 
A, Henry, 9334, 9334 
The genus one is numerous in species in the Mediterranean 
region and eastward to North-western India and Western Centr 
ia ; but ant comparatively recently it was ae known to be repre- 
sented east of Sikkim. 0. burmanica, Coll. et Hemsl., was discovered 
by Colonel Sir Henry Collett in the Shan Hills in 1887. 0. panicula- 
tum, Bur. et Franch., was one o nvalot and Prince Henry of 
Orleans’s discoveries in Szechuen, and the aes state (Journ. de Bot. 
1891, p. 105) that the Abbé Delavay had collected about half-a- dozen 
undescribed species in the province of Yunnan.—W. Portine 
TEMSLEY 
Fig. 1, pistil and portion of calyx; 2, insertion of stemens; 3, a nutlel. Ad 
enlarged, 
