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these two Wallichian species. In the absence, however, of specimens of G. dichotomnm it is necessary 

 either to recognise that as a spe3ies, or to join it to one or other of its near allies. Now 

 from what has been demonstrated above it will be seen that under the name " G. parviflorum " 

 it is in reality a form of G. crinitum that Bentham and Miquel (who follows Bentham closely) 

 are comparing with G. dichotomnm. And as the character wherein G. dichotomum is said 

 by them alone to differ from this form of G. crinitum, coupled with the character implied in the original 

 description gives us two out of the three points wherein true G. parviflorum alone differs from this form 

 of G. crinitum, it appears manifest that G. dichotomnm must at present be looked upon as eonspecine with 



true G. parviflorum. - 



"With the gathering of G. crinitum from Tavoy, to which since 1829 that name had been restricted, 

 Sir Joseph Hooker has (1885) associated a somewhat different-looking but undoubtedly oonspecific plant 

 collected by Dr. Griffith in Malacca. This is G. crinitum var. Grijflthii of the present paper. 



In the group Parviflora there is evidently a very great difference in the rank of the various forms 

 separated. The only distinctly separable plant is G. microcahjx (though even as regards this— p. 251 — union 

 with another form has been suggested), and it is very probable that only a few more gatherings from 

 intermediate localities will be required to provide the intermediate forms necessary to prove that all the 

 others are simply local manifestations of one protean species. And while the absence of these prevents the 

 writer from formally proposing the necessary reductions, the time appears to have come for indicating the 

 probable nature of these. If only floral characters are attended to, we can recognise but two species, 



viz. 



A. G. mtcrocalyx Train; corollas tubo fauce vix inflato, calycis dentibus brevissimis. 



B. G. parviflorum Wall. Cat. 1829 (ncc 1828) parum emend.; corolioe tubo fauce distinete 



inflato, calycis dentibus elongatis. 



Var. a. farinas*; foiiis petiolatis subtus farinoso-tomentosis, bracteis omnibus ovatis = G. 



multiflorum Benth., DO. Prodr. xii, 552. — Leonurus farinosus Ham. Mss. in Wall. 

 Cat. 2158/D. (G. parviflorum var. farinosa Train uti supra). 



Var. /9. typica ; foiiis petiolatis bracteis lanceolatis = G. parviflorum Wall. Cat. 2158 



/ 



2158/E. — G. dichotomum Zoll. 8f Mor.j Verzeichn. 54. (G. parviflorum var. typica uti 

 supra) . 



Var. 7. erinita; foiiis petiolatis bracteis (exterioribus exceptis) lanceolatis = G. crinitum Wall. 



Cat. 2159/1, 2159/2.— G. Thomsoni Benth. in Herb. Lid. Or. H. f. $ T. T. (G. 

 crinitum var. typica et G. Thomsoni uti supra). 



Var. 8. Griffithii ; foiiis sessilibus bracteis (exterioribus exceptis) lanceolatis = G. crinitum 



Hook, /., Fbr. Brit. Ind. iv, 698, syn. Wall. Cat. 2159 exclus. (G. crinitum var. 

 Griffithii Prain uti supra). 



V. Eriocarpon; verticillastris remotis axilhribus, calyce parum costato intus tubo denti- 

 busque glabro, ovario puberulo, nuculis globosis. 



11. Gomphostemma eriocarpon Benth. (1829). 



Elata erecta caule gracili subterete, foiiis petiolatis basi attenuatis elliptico-oblongi 

 acutis grosse dentatis, supra parce hispidulis subtus petiolis caulibusque toiuentosis 

 verticillastris paucifloris densis, bracteis ovatis denticulatis vel linearibus integris supn 

 glabris, calycis viridis tubo dentibus anguste lanceolatis apice filiformibus sequilono-o 



flava fere recta calyce 3-plo longiore, extus villosa, stylo glabro, nuculis 



nigres- 



centibus dense tomentosis Iambus.— G. eriocarpon Benth. in Wall. Cat n. 2710 (1829) 



