

FEDUXCrLATA. 



11 mm longa, limbo 8 mm. lato, Jabio postico 4 mm. W boc 

 7 mm. longo hoc 16 mm. lato, mculis 6 mm. Wis his s'mm 1 



C7 



8 mm. lato, lab 



datis basi triquetris 

 Plate 92. Gomphostemma Curtisii Pram. Specimen from IYrak 



oblon 



Th 



ray n. 1233 



dissect 



species is so nearly allied to G. pcdunruMum that Mr. Hemslcy rmarL of it - wit] 



-onld be ealled G pedunculate." It is , ]l0w ,,, . „ anolv , ^ ,., j^ 



rf Mi. a Curtis of Penang, who* enthusiasm as a eolhofat j, „„l y * 1M ,,_ y, 



• ai 



attention to the requests of correspondents. In this the ,,,,„ .eem , : v ,' occvt >„ ^ [ 



long way below the leaves. 



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21. Gomphostemma chinense Oliv. (188 1). 



Elongata caule prostrata Tel ascendens, foliis lon-iuscule petiolai * elliptic* reJ 

 ovato-ellipticis apice obtusis vel subacutis basi cuncatis rotundativ margin© undulato- 

 denticulatis, supra brevo hirsutis subtus petiolis caulibusque Ctno-pmWentibus 

 verticillastris multifloris cymis laxis utrinque cvolutis, hractcis auguste otitis iuuminatii 

 margine integris calycem a?quantibus, extus pedunculis(]ue tomenfosii fetus labratis 

 calycis purpurascentis extus pubescentis dentibus lanceolatis acuminatis tubo a•qllilonois , 



corolla alba antice incurva calyce 4-plo longiore, extus pubcrula, stylo glabro iraculii 





pallidis glabris punctulatis. — G. cliin< nse Oliv. in Hook., Icon. Plant, xv .04 t 

 1468 (1884); Hance in Jour. Bot. xxv, 12 (1887).— G. chinensis Forks ct HnusL, Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvi, 306 (1890). 



In China Australi ; Fokien, apud Amoy, Swwhoc ; Kwangtung, in collibus Lo-fan- 

 shan, Faber ! in ins. Hainan, ad Faulun, B. C. Henry. 



Caulibus gracilibus basi subteretibus sarpe radieantibus 40— '.0 cm. aid's foliis 

 distantibus petiolis 1 — 3 cm. longis, laminis 6—9 cm. longis bis 3*5—4 cm. latis, supra 

 aequabiliter stellato-tomentosis pilis longioribus simplicibus intenpenif, cyruis 4—5 cm. 



longis secus caulem aphyllum vel e basi caulis quasi radicalibus, bracteis 9 16 mm, 



longis his 5 — 8 mm. latis, oppositis, calyce 12 mm. longo hoc 5 mm. lato— tubo calvcis 

 6 mm. longo, dentibus 6 mm. longis his basi 3 mm. latis, corollce tubo 45 mm. Jon 



parte tubi sequali 30 mm. longa, parte inflata 15 mm. longa, limbo 8 mm. lato Jabio 

 postico 4 mm. longo hoc 8 mm. lato, Iabio antico 7 mm. longo hoc 16 mm. lato, nuculis 

 5 mm. longis his 3*5 mm. latis. 



Plate 97. Gomphostemma chinense Oliv. Specimens from Lo-fan-shan, Faher A 

 comm. Ford; B, C — ex Icon. Plant, xv, t. 1468. 



A species very distinct from the other members of the group owing to its longer corolla and its 

 leaves with stellate tomentum on the upper surface; by both characters it connects the Pedunmhta with 

 the MelmifoUa. The upper lip of the corolla is shown in Mr. Oliver's plate as slightly emarginate, 

 just as it is in G. pediinculatum and in 6. Curtisii. The cymes in this species are borne on the very 

 lowest portion of the stem in the Kew specimen ; in one (of the same gathering) kindly communicated 

 to Calcutta by Mr. C. Ford, f.l.s., of Hong-Kong, they occur along the stem, exactly as in G. Curtisii. 



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It may ultimately be possible to unite as sub-species the two first ppecies of this group; in the 

 meantime the necessary intermediate forms are altogether deficient. If, moreover, the character of lax 

 inflorescence be found to fail in any of the three forms here defined, it will perhaps become possible 

 to unite the two groups Pedunculata and MelmifoUa. 



Ann. Eoy. Dot. Gard. Calcutta Vol. Ill 





