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nerves obscure; inflorescence corymbose, pedicels clustered in axils of triangular bracts 2-5 
mm. long near somewhat swollen apex of peduncle which attains 6 em. in length; pedicels 
З em. long., enlarged upwards with cup-like tips; calyz-tube globose, 4 mm. long., articulate 
at the base of the pedicel-cup and covered by it, limb inflated 8 mm, long., wide-campanulate, 
margin entire, distinctly reticulated throughout; соғойа elongate, tube 4 cm. long, 
straight, funnel-shaped limb 1:25 em. wide, 5-lobed, lobes 5 mm. long, triangular ; stamens 10, 
epigynous, free, filaments short, anthers long erect, their tips on a level with corolla- 
limb, not spurred behind; ovary 5-locular, style filiform the tip shortly 5-lobulate, ovules 
numerous; fruili ovate, crowned by the persistent calyx-limb, 1 cm. long, 8 mm. wide, 
UPPER Burma: Clin Hills; King’s Collector! Kachin Hills; King’s Collector ! 
A second species or variety, Desmogyne minor, very similar to D. neriifolia but 
much smaller in all its parts. was obtained by Mr. Wallace, during the Railway 
Survey Expedition through the Hukang Valley. 
Pirate 59.—Desmogyne neriifolia King $ Ргат. 1, branch with flowers and fruit; 2, flower in 
vertical section; 3, calyx-limb, laid open; 4, corolla, laid open; 5, stamens, in situ, the corolla removed ; 6 
stamens, seen from inside; 7, single anther x2, from inside; 8, the same x2, from outside; 9, placenta- 
tion; 10, seed; 11, pedicel, in fruit, showing the cup-like apex; 12, ovary, in transverse section, with 
the ring-like apex of pedicel surrounding it; 13, floral diagram. ' 
а. K. ; D. Р. 
PLATE 60 A. 
61. ANDROSACE Hannrssu Duthie їп Ree, Dot. Survey of India, 1, 161 (1898), 
Natural order Primulacez. 
Perennial; stems woody, much branched, lower naked portions concentrically leaf- 
scarred ; leaves imbricate, in compact squarrose rosettes, 3—4 mm. long, ligulate or 
somewhat boat-shaped, acute and subspinulose, pale-green turning to a chesnut-brown 
colour when older, quite glabrous; bases dilated and with membranous edges; scapes 
5 to 2 em. long, solitary at the ends of the leaf-rosettes, bearing umbels of 8—5 flowers, 
clothed with short, crisp, glandular hairs; bracts 2—5, rather unequal, boat-shaped, 
entire, hairy; pedicels 4—6 mm. long, deflexed after flowering; calyx densely glandular- 
hairy, turbinate, shorter than the pedicels; segments rounded, imbricate, about 1 the 
length of the tube, smooth inside; corolla white, about 5 mm. in dium.; tube globose, 
membranous, equalling the calyx; mouth constricted by a prominent 2 lobes spread. 
ing, broadly obovate or spathulate, emarginate; stamens attached }-way dowa the corolla- 
tube, on very short filaments; anthers globose ; capsule turbinate, flattened above; style 
1 mm. in length ; seeds 8, oval-oblong. 
N.-W. Himaraya: Chitral district, above Zidrat, at an elevation of about 11,000 feet 
(Herb. Хо. 16354) Found by Captain Harriss, г.м.з., during the Chitral Relief 
Expedition of 1895. Flowers in June. 
This plant very much resembles in habit A. Tapete Maxim.: it differs, however by 
ihe flowers being in umbels, in the glabrous leaves, and in the shape of the corolla. 
lobes; the seeds also ате more numerous. Mr. J. В. Drummond, rc.s, who 
kindly undertook, when in England іп 1898, to compare specimens of this plant at 
the Royal Herbarium, Kew, is inclined to regard it and A. Lehmarni Wall. as extreme 
forms cf A. squarrcsula Maxim. I have not seen specimens of the latter. 
