U'CIDA. 



2C 



13 mm longa, K «bo 9 mm. lato, Iabio postico intopro 6 „„„. I „ g „ hoc 8 mm la.o 



labxo ant,.n » mm loago hoc l9 ^ ^ ^ ^.^ ^ ^"Ju^ 



labio antico 9 

 nondum communicatis. 



Plate 104. Gomphostemma phlomoides Bcnth. Specimens from Jara, Ilmficld. 



This species is very distinct from the other, of the group fa, often having the whorl* distal 

 short axxllary branchlets with smaller leaves than those o? the main stem f n L iS^ 

 it approaches the group Pedunculate TW ifa wi,« l m , ! * ll-r, ' f 



#n^ *„«... • i. , , fTTT' But ltS whorIs ftr " nxilIar 7 ■»* not on the old wood, and 



ti. »rls r 



further distinguished by its hirsute ovary nud it. calyx j.romin,,,',! v r iM„J. Even *hen ».. , rta m 



condensed it 18 at once distinguished from the r ,„i„i„g , „ bv «, , mal r 'i,™" * ' 



and considerably widened at the top; and hm O. •**,„*, ,*„ which M, ,„h., . a,,,. D i 

 paz-ticularly compare it, lt is further distinguished by its sparingly htaut. *yfc Tl. .tend, «rt Li 



the tube, though shorter than in any of the other Lunda, is Dot, as Miqu, 1 saw, •bttte than Hie «Jyx. 



The various forms that are here included in the poop I,,**, ha , b. „ in -hi, ,,„,„.,. h ,,, .p.rf ; 



order to maintain as uniformly as possibt the trcalinent n.1,,,,1.,1 l, y ,1„ W fl Mr. liniliam But 



though the intermediate forms which would warrant a reduction .if these form, hav« not * 1 



— ^ „ vlWjll nunuuu u, louui'inju vi uiwj iunua na?v not aa i 



ported, there is evidence enough to show that reductions will ultimately 1m neoeaaarv, and it 



does not s6em out of place to indicate here those that i %y have to be i-fleetal. Abandoning A 

 reference to differences in the leaf edges and in the style, which tf.ii in some of the f rms non- 

 differentiated are found to fail, and relying solely on diiferenoes in low. r and fruit, we fi 

 three plants are at all clearly separable. These 



III v- 



A. G. obloxgum Wall., ampl. ; corolla tubo calyoe multo longiore, nuculis maturis hirsut is. 



Var. a. typica; foliis majusculis hand rugosis breve petiolatis = G oblongum Wall. C 



G. Philippinarum Bentk. — G. Seortechinii Pram. 



Var. fi. parvifolia ; foliis minoribus subruir-is \ 1 rugosis distinct* p'tiolatis = G. 



4 



1 i m 



£enth.—Qt. rugosum Pram (G. lucidum Wall, quoad Cat. n. 21 G/l). 

 Area geogr.; Andamans, Tenasserim, Malaya, Java, Philippines. 



B. G. lucidum Wall, emend.; corolla tubo oalyee multo longioro, nuculis maturis glabris. 



Var. a. typica; foliis oblanceolatis vel laneeolatis = G. lucidum Wall. < it. 215C/2 Umtum. 



Var. £. canescens; foliis eliiptico-ovatis eubtus albo-tomentosis = 0. luridum var. eaneecens 



Train uti supra. 



Area geogr.; Himalaya orientalis, Assam, Burma superior, Yunnan. 



C. G. phlomoides Benth.; corolla tubo calycem parum excedente. 



Area geogr. ; Java, Madura. 



Even after the wholesale reduction indicated above has be*m effected, it will be noted— I, tliat 

 G. lucidum is manifestly only the Indo-Chinese representative of the Malayan G. ohhngnm; and 2, that 

 the only tangible character which separates these two is that the ovarian tomentum is altogether de< luous 



whereas it persists to some extent in G. oblongnm. The two species therefore do not 

 ffer from each other so much as do G. pedmculatum and G. Curtisii (which two Mr. Hemsley in IM 

 has suggested the advisability of uniting), and, as in the case of these latter, it may be suggested that 

 ultimately G. lucidum would be quite sufficiently differentiated if regarded as a local sub-species of 

 G. ohhngnm, as has been indicated already in Table I (p. 230). 



VII. Pedunculata ; verticillastris remotis azillaribus vel secus caulem aphyllum disposith 



in G 



i 



calyce hand costato intus tubo dentibusque glabro, ovario glahro, nuculis ovalu. 



