EXCLUDED SPECIES. 



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Excluded and Doubtful Species. 



There is in the Calcutta Herbarium a gathering in leaf only of a very distinct species : 



70. PediCUlaris sp. rhizomate lignoso ramoso foliis alternis radicalibus crespitosis 

 petiolatis petiolis 1*5— 2-5 cm. longis margine herbaceo prorsus dilatatis lanrinis 6— 9 on. 

 longis his 1*75— 2*25 cm. latia pinnatisectis rhachi alatis supra omnino glaberrimis subtus 

 petiolo nervisque parce hirsutis ceterum glabris segmentis 10— 12-jugis subtltemis obtusis 

 10 mm. longis his 4 — 5 mm. latis pinnatifidis et margine cartilagineo serrato-dentati . 



Jn alpibus Assamle : — Manipur boreali; in Sirohifurar. 8,000 p. s. in. Watt (n. G479) ! 



This is very distinct from any Indian species, and appears as if it must belong 

 either to the Bus iphonan thee or to the Hyposiphonanthx subsection. Mr. Ifaxiniowici 

 who has very kindly examined it (in spite of its incomplete condition) at my request, 

 tells me that he cannot match it with any of the Chinese species, which he knows so 

 thoroughly. He says of it — "looks like a Siphonantha or (less so) a Comosa ;" it should 

 therefore be a species yet to be described. 



Plate 35. B. — Pedicul aris sp. indica n. 70. 



Specimen from Sirohifurar (Watt, n. 6479). 



There is one Indian plant that has to be mentioned as an excluded species: 

 Pedicularis? avana Wall., Cat. 1007 (1828); Benth., Scroph. Ind. 02 (18:35). Tl 

 same species was issued as an Acanthaceous plant, which it is, by Wallich in the folloi 

 ing year. But the identity of this with that Acanthaceous plant was not made public ti 

 1876. Up to that date therefore the synonymy must be shown in a double column. 



Pedicularis? avana Wall, Cat 1007 



,(1828) 



Benth.) Scroph. Ind, 



Adenosma biplicata Nees in Wall., Cat. 7116 



(1829). 



JVees in Wall,. PL U 



ifor.iii, 79(1832) 



52 (1835). 

 Svnnema avanum Benth., DC. ProdrA 68(1817) 



Nees in DC Prodr 



538 (1846) 



T. Anders., Jour. L 



» 



Sue. ix, 454 (1867) 



Cardanthera biplicata Benth. in Gen. PI. », 1074 (1876) 



Cardanthera avana, C. B. Clarke in Hook, f, Flor. BrU. Ind. IT, 40- (1884). 



Ade Nees felt at liberty to retain Brown's name for the genus thus hunted. 



Stemodia Linn 



-temodu i-mn., »«- -. « , ed Acanthaceous pUlIlta that 



eeing that Brown himself had in the work quote 



till remained in the genus to be in his opinion congeneric w i J . r 



till remamea g ^.^ ^^ ^ ^ first ^ m the 



ariaceous species taken as the typ 



mous 



ZJiBC. Prodr. xi, 67) t"ke name Ca^xheea Ham., which he gives as synony 



with Adenosma of Nees (not of Brown) 



