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EUGOilPHOSTEMMA. 



VIII. 



Melissifolia ; verticillastris remotts axillaribus, calyce indistincte costalo 



tulo dcntibmque hirsute, ovario 

 45 (1814), nee Linn. 



glabro, nuculis subglobosis. — Prasium Roxb., Hort. 



intus 



Beng. 



22. 



Gomphostemma Mastersii Bentk. (1885). 



Humilis vel elatior caule gracili parum sulcato scabro, film longe petiolatis ovato 



blong 



apice 



acutis basi integra euneatis vel 



raro truncatis margine ceterum 



minute 



serratis, supra beve hirsutis subtus nervis dense ceterum parce tomentosis, petiolii 

 subscabris, verticillastris paucifloris densis vel raro verticillis inferioribus parum evolutis 



s, reliquis lanceolatis, omnibus calyce brevioribus 



hracteis exterioribus oblongi: 

 bracteolis linearibus brevibus 



obtus 



purpurascentis costis d 



ceterum parce hirsut 



nceolatis apice subulatis tubo multo 



longioribus, corolla flava, extus 



dentibus lineari-li 



brevissime puberula, calyce plus 2-plo longiore, stylo glabro, nuculis nigrescentibus glabr 



extus laevibus intus rugosulis. 



G. Ma 



Bcnth. in Herb 



Ind, 



Or 



II. 



T.T. ex 



Hook, 

 et syn 



Brit. Ind. iv, 699 (1885) — G. melissifolium Wall., Cat. n. 2157, pro parte 



Fl 



Prasium melissifolium Roxb 



excl. (1828) 

 In Assam inferiore; in collibus Jaintea, 2 



3.000 



P 



s. m 



> 



G. Mann 



In Silhet 



DeSilva 



Clark 



in montibus Khasia. 3 — 4,000 



p. s. 



m., Hooker et Thomson I Clarke 



n. 44 137 ! in collibus Lushai apud Lengti, Prazer 

 n. 320m Herb. Kew.. Jenkins! 



I 



Assam 



supenore 



? 



Masters 



Caulibus ascendentibus imo basi tantum radicantibus, vel prostratis ramis ascenden- 



libus, 6 — 25 cm. altis, radicibus fibrosis tuberis fusiformibus interspersis, petiolis 3 



7 



cm. 



longis, laminis supra aequabiliter stellato-tomentosis pilis 



longioribus simplicibus 



interspersis, 7 



14 cm. longis his 3 



9 cm. latis, verticillastris sub-10-floris nonnun- 



([uam cymis laxis utrinque evolutis, bracteis 16 



mm. longis his exterioribus 8 



12 mm. 



latis reliquis 2 — 4 mm. latis, calyce 18 mm. longo hoc 5 mm. lato — tubo calycis 7 mm. 

 longo, dentibus 11 mm, longis his basi 3 mm. latis, .corolla 40 mm. longa 



parte tubi 



6 



Ion 



requali 25 mm. longa, limbo 8 mm. lato, labio postico margine integro o mm. longo 

 boo 8 mm* I 



lato, labio antico 8 mm. longo hoc 16 



mm. lato, nuculis maturis 6 mm. 



longis his 4 mm. latis. 



Plates 98 B and 99. 



Gomphostemma Mastersii Benth. 98B. Specimen from Jaintea 



hills, Mann. 99. Specimen from Khasia, Hooker 6r Thomson. 



This 



is 



istic tomentum of 

 pubescence, throug 



distinct species marked by the presence of tubers amongst its roots. The character 



Th 



face of its leaves, consisting of a uniform, though 

 hich longer and stouter simple hairs are uniformly 



dense 



distinctive 



is 



Pedunculata 



uliar character the species shares with G. chinense (which has to be placed 



m 



the 



gro 



the flowers 



there being in lax 



cymes bor 



the old 



below the 



Its flowers too are very like those of G. chine me y and it further 



Pedunculata in having a coloured calyx and 



its affinity with the group 



out, sometimes lax— « shortly peduncled as in G. pedwwu/atum' {F. B. L 

 are usually dense, and in any case the calyx is distinctly, though not 



in having its whorls, as Sir Joseph Hooker has pointed 



iv 



699). 



Still the whorls 



!bb 



Small forms of the species 



allied; that species is at once distinguished by its 



good deal resemble G. velutinum> to which it is perhaps most nearly 



to mentum 



dense 



the upper as 



the 



under surface of the leaves, by 



shorter corollas, and by its roots without tubers. Its reduction to 



