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55. Psychotria sarmentosa, Bl. At 4,000 feet. 



56. P. Birchiana, King. At 4,000 feet. 



57. p. Megacarpa sp. nov. 



A shrub. Leaves lanceolate, acuminate, acute, base 

 narrowed to the petiole, thinly coriaceous, 14 cm. long, 

 3.5 cm. wide, drying red-brown, glabrous, nerves 12 pairs, 

 fine, meeting near the edge, petiole 1.5 cm. long, rather 

 slender. Stipules short, ring-like. Flowers not seen. 

 Panicles few flowered lax 6 cm. long, branches few, spreading. 

 Fruit ellipsoid, crowned with the remains of the perianth, 

 I cm. long on pedicels i cm. long. Seeds convex on the 

 outer side, 6-ribbed at inner surface, flat, 6 mm. wide. 



At 3,500 feet. 



Allied to P. Jackii, with very similar leaves but very much 

 larger fruit. 



58. Psychotria condensa, King & Gamble. At 6,600 feet. 



There are two forms of this, very different in appearance, 

 one with distant pairs of elliptic leaves, blunt tipped 3 cm. 

 long and 2 cm. across, and the other with smaller, more 

 lanceolate condensed leaves, 1.5 cm. long and 7 mm. wide. 



59. Lasianthus rhinocerotis, Bl. At 4,000 feet. 



60. Laudiculatus sp. nov. 



Branches slender, covered with fine yellow appressed 

 hairs. Leaves lanceolate, long caudate base sharply cuneate 

 above, glabrous, shining, drying greenish, nerves obovate, 

 5 pairs beneath, glabrous, except the edges, long, ciliate and 

 rounded midrib and elevated nerves all appressed, hairy, 

 petiole slender 4 mm. long, silky. Stipules persistent, 

 triangular, acute, silky. Cymules sessile, shorter than the 

 petiole, few flowered. Bracts small. Cahx lobes ovate, acute, 

 covered with silky yellow hairs. Corolla tube rather stout, 

 lobes 4, ovate, triangular, acute ; 4 mm. long, all hairy. Style 

 long, protruding. At 4,500 feet. 



Allied to L. longicauda, Hook. fil. of the Himalayas, but 

 with leaves hairy on nerves and edges and sessile flowers. 



COMPOSITAE. 



61. Gynura sarmentosa , DC. At 3,000 feet elevation. 



62. Erigeron linifolius, Willd. ? At 6,000 feet. 



Campanulaceae. 



63. Pentaphragma Scortechinii, King. At 4,000 feet. 



