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flowers solitary terminal; calyx deeply 4-lobed, lobes triangular with thickened midrib, 
white, 3 mm. long; corolla divided nearly to the base into 4 linear-oblanceolate, 
obtuse segments 8 mm. long, dark-blue; síamens 4, filaments linear, flattened, white, 
3°5 mm. long, anthers yellow, oblong, innate, dehiscence by a terminal pore; ovary 
globose; style cylindric, pinkish-purple, 6 mm. long, stigma small, capitate, yellow. 
Eastern 1۸۲۸۶۸۰ Sikkim; King. British Bhutan ; бате. 
The above description is taken from a manuscript account of the living plant 
written by Sir George King and from a drawing, also from life, made at the 
same time by his native artist. The elevation given in the Flora of British India 
is 6,000 ft. but the original note reads “Sikkim, ۶ 6,000 feet, July 1875." It has 
been carefully searched for since but has never again been found in Sikkim and 
has only once been found again at all,—in British Bhutan and at a low elevation. 
Pirate 66.—Cotylanthera paucisquama Clarke. 1, plant,—of natural вів; 2, corolla, laid open ; 
3, stamens; 4, ovary,—al? slightly enlarged. 
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PLATE 67. 
69. GLEADOVIA RUBORUM Gamble & Prain in Journ, Аз. Soc, Beng. lxix. 2. 489 (1900). 
Natural order Orobanchacez. 
A fleshy, leafless herb about 6 in. high, of which only about one-half epigeal ; 
root-stock very thick especially where attached to host; scales ovate, the lower rounded, 
the uppermost sometimes 2-fid; flowers paniculate, bracts solitary, 2 cm. long, sheath- 
ing, rounded, pedicel stout, 1 cm. long, bracteoles 2, 2—3 cm. long, spathulate, acute, 
concave; calyx light-red, tubular, somewhat inflated, regularly 5-lobed, 3-3۰5 сш. long, 
lobes pale; corolla red with darker veins, tube as long as calyx, slightly curved, dis- 
tinctly 2-lipped, upper lip of 2 connate lobes, rounded, slightly dentate, lower of 3 
narrow, spathulate, subequal lobes, acutely dentate ; stamens 4, geniculate at point of 
insertion, anthers elongate, spurred, connective produced in a 2-fid cone, hairy above; 
ovary cylindric; style long, incurved at apex; stigma of 2 broad semi-orbicular lobes 
depressed in the centre; ovary l-celled ; placentz 2 pairs, central, partly united, 
partly free, ovules very many; fruit subglobose; seeds very many, minute, with loose 
reticulate testa. 
N.-W. НіматауА: Bodyar, Jaunsar, 8,000 ft, in shady woods of fir and 
deodar on roots of wild raspberry (Rubus niveus), very scarce;  Gleadow & Gamble! 
Duthie ! | 
Prate 67.—Gleadovia ruborum Gamble $ Prain. 1, plant, from Bodyar Jaunsar; 2, single flower, 
front view, unopened; 3, single flower, from side, fully open; 4, corolla, laid open to show 
insertion of stamens; 5, bracteoles; 6, calyx, laid open, showing lobes; 7, ovary with stigma; 
8, vertical section of the same; 9, transverse section of ovary near middle; 10, the same halfway 
between middle and base, showing the placente discrete; 11, the same, near base, showing the 
placents further separated by a partial false dissepiment, this becomes more marked іп fruit; 
19, fruit,—of natural size; 13, seeds, seen from side and in front; 14, the same, half of the loose 
testa cut away; 15, body of seed covered by tegmen; 16, the same in vertical section with 
embryo; 17, floral diagram. 
` "The whole of the analyses are from fresh or spirit specimers. 
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