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hardly leafy, only the lowest exceeding pedicels and calyx; pedicels 2 mm. long; calyz 
4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide; corolla-tube 22 mm. long, limb 5 mm. across, upper lip 
notched 4 mm. long, lower 6 mm.; nutlsts elliptic, 2 mm. long, granulate, Journ. Linn. 
Soc. xxviii, 326 (1891), 
BILUCHISTAN : Quetta district, Duthie’s Collectors 1 Lace 4006! 
Рьлте 71B.—Specimen of Seutellaria petiolata Hemsl. & Lace, from Biluchistan. 6, flower with 
braot x 2; 7, half of corolla showing staminal insertion x 2; 8, fruiting calyx x 2; 9, nutlets x 6. 
D. Р. 
PLATE 71С. 
76. SCUTELLARIA KINGIANA Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. lix. 2. 308 (1890). 
Natural order Labiate. 
Stems puberulous, slender, decumbent, 15—18 cm. long, several together from a 
creeping slender rootstock; leaves pubescent, petioled, ovate-orbicular, obtuse, crenate 
except the rounded base, Jamina 18 mm. long, 14 mm. wide, crenatures few (8—11) 
rather wide, petioles 5—6 mm. long; lowers axillary, few, shortly pedicelled; ca/yz 
puberulous, twice as long as pedicels, 4 mm. long, 3 mm. wide at mouth; corolla puber- 
uious, white, 30 mm. long, the tube 22 mm, long, the limb 5 mm. wide; filuments 
glabrous; nutiets not seen, 
Тівет: Kang-ma, 60 miles north of Phari on the banks of the Pe-na-mong Chu, 
King's Colvector ! 
This very beautiful species has only once been collected; it flowers in August. 
Рглтк 710.—Scutellaria Kingiana Prain. Specimen from Kang-ma in Southern Tibet—of natural 
size; 10, flower—of natural sis; 11, half of corolla, showing staminal insertion x 2; 12, portion of 
style and stigma x 4; 13, lateral half of corolla, showing gynophore, ovary and base of style x 2; 
14, calyx—left hand, posterior; right hand, anterior, internal faces of calyx x 2. 
1 Ф. 
PLATE 724. 
77. MOLUCELLA OTOSTEGIOIDES Prain in Journ, Аз. Soc. Beng. liz. 2. 1 (1890. 
Natural order Labiate. | 
An erect perennial with slender, green, glabrous, 4-angled branches; leaves 4 cm, 
long; narrowed at the base, lanceolate, acute but hardly pungent at the tip, entire, nerve- 
less; flowers in distant many-flowered axillary whorls, bracts 3-partite, subulate, all spines- 
cent; calyz obliquely campanulate, 9—11-toothed and 2-lipped, the limb prolonged behind 
as an erect spinescent tooth and spreading in front as а 3-partite lip with smaller radiat. 
ing marginal lateral spines, glabrous, rigidiy coriaceous, tube 8 mm. long exceeding 
the bracts, the upper half externally distinctly reticulate-veined, throat naked, upper lip 
6 mm. long, lower 3 mm. long, 4 mm. across; corolla-tube included, 7 mm. long, obliquely 
annulate within, upper lip erect, concave, entire, villous externally, lower 3-fid, midlobe 
obcordate; stamens 4 ascending, exserted, anterior longer, anthers conniveut 2-locular ; style 
2.lobed, arms subequal; ovary and тиЙеіз truncate. 
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