U'CIDA. 



203 



Plate 103. Gompliostemma rugosum Pram. Specimen from EIort. Bogor 



Eurs n. 1154 



cult 



, i-mi,., 



Under the next species the relationship of this to Gomphostnnma hcahtm » di«u«ed ; the tm as 

 „ p/'yT^ 1 ^ J S P edfieft % from * **" and for retaining that name to designate Wall Cat 



11 m i P USmg the ^^ f ° r tWs rknt are th0re ful1 ? 8tl * Th " *P"< * b,-n to <?. /«*„,, 



much the relationship that G. oblongum bears to <?. Ph,H„iuaru» h hut its nearest ally i. G. j«tanic„,n 

 oi which it is probably only a form with larger end harsher 1 av»; in the wife view win,}, will 

 reduce all the forms of the Lucida group, except G. ^W<H to an amj.lifi d 0. abloom thig w,u 

 liardly be separated as a variety from <?. jamnicum, In the meantime, howev,r, it -annot bo 

 included in that species without inconveniently extending its limits. Like (?. fimrtmm, it fife, fmm 



having a glabrous style; O. oblonyum, how***, to which all but one of 



u 



the other 



the "Lucida" are probably reducible, is in this respect itself a connecting link sinoe it include plants 

 in other respects identical, but some of which have styles glabrous even in bud, white 01 - liai 



hirsute 



flow 



17. Gomphostemma lucidum Wall, ex Bmth. (1831). 



Elata erecta caule terete lignoso robusto, folds brevo pctiohtis elliptico-ovatia vel 

 oblanceolatis acutis margine serratis, supra lucidis pil«.>.>-liispidis demum glabre«centibus 

 subtus petiolis caulibusque hirsutis, vertiikastris mnltiflorif densis, bradris lanceolati* 

 subulatisve calyce sessili brevioribus, calycis dense rufo-lanati dtntibus triangukribof tubo 



as 3-plo brevioribus, corolla flava apice antice incurva calyco sub-3-plo longiow extus 

 (lobo labii antici medio excepto) dense villosa, stylo versus apiccm pilis divcrgcntibui 

 barbato, niiculis albidis glabris sublaevibus. 



Yar. typica; laminis oblanceolatis vel lanceolatis, subtus nen is densius cet< rum 



laxe rufo-tomentosis.— G. lucidum Wall, Cat. n. 2156/2(1828); Bmifk 

 Wall. PI. As. Mar. ii, 12(1831), Lab. Gen. et 8p. 648 (1835) et DC 

 Prodr. xii, 551 (1848); Wulp., Jtrp. iii, 897 (1815); Hook. /, Flor. 



Brit. 2nd. iv, 697 (1885). 



In Assam inferiore ; in collibus Jaintea, Clarke, n. 5950 ! in montibus Khasia, DeSilva 

 (Wall. Cat. n. 2156/2)! Griffith, n. 4033 Few. Dist. (in parte)! J looker et Thomson! 

 Clarke, n. 14279 ! Gallatly, n. 243 ! Oldham ! In Burma superiore ; apud Poneline, 

 Anderson ! In Yunnan occidentali ; prope Momien, Anderson ! 



Yar. canescens ; laminis elliptico-ovatis, subtus a>quabiliter albo-tomcntr Is. 



In Himalaya orientali; in collibus Daphla, Lister n. 8GI In A^< \r superiore; in 

 Lakbimpnr, Griffith n. 4038 Few. Dist. (in parte et quoad n. 296 Jlcrb. Griff. propr.)\ 

 Masters! apud Dibrugarh, Clarke, n. 37719! 



Caulibus 60 — 100 cm. altis, petiolis 1 — 3 cm. longis, laminis 1 8—25 cm. longis his 

 4 9 cm . latis, basi saepissime sensim attenuatis, verticillastris 8ub-16-flon\ bracteis 



10 mm. longis lanceolatis vel subulatis integris 1-5—2 5 mm. latis, calyce 14—15 mm. 

 lon^-o hoc 6 mm. lato— tubo calycis 10 mm. longo, dentibus 4 mm. longis his basi 

 3-5 mm. latis, corolla 40 mm. longa— parte tubi aequali 25 mm. longa, limbo 9 mm. 

 lato labio postico medio acuminulato 9 mm. longo hoc 10 mm. lato, labio antico 15 

 mm. lonu-o hoc 18 mm. lato, lobo medio antice integro, ovarii tomento mox caduco, 

 nuculis 6 mm. longis his 4 mm. latis. 



