SCROPHULARIACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder. 



BRANDISIA Hook. f. & Thorns. 



Brandisia Hancei, Hooker f., Fl Brit. Ind. IV. 257 (1885).— 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 179 (1890). 



Brandisia discolor Hance in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII, 299 (non Hooker f. & 

 Thomson) (1880). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, scrub-clad hillsides, alt. 30-300 ra., 

 March 1907 (No. 3404); without locaHty, A. Henry (No. 1150); 

 Nanto and mountains to the northward, A. Henry (No. 3007). 

 Yunnan : Mengtze, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 9013; slender shrub, 

 1 m., flowers yellow). 



No good description of this species has been published so far, but according to 

 Dr. A. B. Rendle of the British Museum who kindly compared Wilson's No. 3404 

 with the type of B. Hancei Hook, f . from Kweichou, there is no difference between 

 the two specimens. Wilson's specimen also agrees perfectly with Henry's speci- 

 men from Hupeh referred by Hemsley to B. Hancei. Henry's No. 9013 from 

 Yunnan differs slightly in its smaller and narrower leaves. 



Besides the preceding the four following species occur in Yunnan: 



Brandisia discolor Hooker f. & Thomson in Jour. Linn. Soc. VIII. 11, t. 4 

 (1865). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. IV. 257 (1885). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 491 

 (1906). 



Yunnan: Szemao, forests, alt. 1300m., A. Henry (No. 12605^ climbing shrub, 

 to 5 m., yellow flowers). 



Brandisia laetevirens Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex 2-3-metralis, sarmentosus; ramuli homotini fulvo-tomentosi. Folia 

 chartacea, verisimiliter persistentia, ovato-oblonga, acuminata v. acuta, basi ro- 

 tundata v. leviter subcordata, 4.5-8 cm. longa at 1.8-3 cm. lata, margine Integra 

 et leviter revoluta, supra initio sparse fasciculato-pilosa, mox glabrescentia et 

 glabra, laevia, laete luteo-viridia (in sicco), subtus dense tomcnto fasciculato albo 

 V. flavescente obtecta, reticulata, nervis utrinsecus 5-6 supra ut costa impressis 

 subtus elevatis; petioli stellato-tomentosi, circiter 5 mm. longi. Flores axillares, 

 solitarii v. bini; pcduncuh graciles, fulvo-tomentosi, 8-10 mm. longi, pendentes 

 medio bibracteati bracteis subulatis calycis basim plcrumque paullosuperantibus; 

 calyx campanulatus, 10-costatus, circiter 1 cm. longus, extus tomento flavido 

 obtectus, intus dense sericeus, lobis ovato-triangularibus acutis 3.5-4 mm. longis, 

 sinubus acutis; corolla late campanulata, leviter curvata, bilabiata circiter 2 cm. 

 longa, lutea (ex Henry), extus pallidc stellato-tomentosa ima basi excepta, limbo 

 intus tomentoso, tubo intus glabro, labio postico magno truncate leviter emar- 



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