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“Tf the nutlets have a thick and fleshy pericarp and a basilar surface of insertion then the 
position you give to the genus would be very good. 
** At all events, the plant represents a new genus and your description gives a good idea of it.” 
Р лтЕ 75.—1, branch of Eurysolen gracilis Prain, from the Kachin Hills,—o/ natural size; 
2, cyme, one flower fully opened x 4; 3, calyx, laid open x 4; 4, half of corolla, showing 
annulus, saccate pouch and staminal insertion x ©; б, ovary with style x 5; 6, anthers, and 7, 
vertical section through base of flower,—both considerably enlarged. 
D. P. 
PLATE 76. 
83. GOMPHOSTEMMA INOPINATUM Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng., lxix. 2. 172 (1900). 
Natural order Labiatæ. 
A stout herb; stems about 30 cm. high, ascending, rooting below, 4-grooved, with 
rounded angles, several from a woody stock, with dense, ash-grey, stellate tomentum 
and with copious, lax, spreading, white pubescence intermixed; leaves 4—6 pairs, the 
lowest small, the pairs 8—10 cm. apart, petioles 2°5—4 cm. e as much as 
5 сш. long), pubescent like the stems but with fewer long lax white hairs in proportion 
to the stellate pubescence; lamina broadly ovate-acute, 8—12 cm. long, 4:5—7:5 cm. 
wide, the base of the lower leaves slightly cuneate, of the upper rounded; margin 
finely crenate except the basal fifth; nerves about six pairs ascending ; upper surface 
finely velvety with a soft, ash-grey, stellate pubescence interspersed with longer simple 
subadpressed tomentum, under surface softly velvety with a felted, whitish-grey, stellate 
pubescence; flowers densely whorled, in radical spikes 5 сш. long, 3 cm. wide, on 
erect peduncles 8--15 cm. long with sometimes a pair of small foliaceous bracts about 
6 mm. below the spike; peduncles pubescent like the stem but terete and more slender; 
floral bracts obovate, dentate, sparsely stellate-pubescent, tinged with pink, the lowest 
1:95 cm. long, *6 cm. wide; ca/yz wide-campanulate, glabrous within, tube rather 
closely stellate externally, limb with 5 equal, wide-triangular, claret or purple lobes 
sparsely stellate on the strongish central and weaker marginal nerves, 1:25 сш. long, 
1 em. wide, the lobes “2 cm. long; bracteoles obovate-lanceolate, 5—6 mm. long, reddish ; 
corolla 2 cm. long, upper lip subentire, lower 3-lobed with slightly emarginate mid-lobe 
and inflated throat, hairy (apparently annulate) within; stamens exserted, filaments 
hirsute at their insertion; ovary and style glabrous; nutleis usually 4, sometimes 2—3, 
reddish, quite glabrous, wall very thickly coriaceous when dry. 
UPPER Burma: Kachin Hills at Langkon, 3,000 feet elevation; Prain’s Collector! 
Only one of the specimens had a few rather shrivelled corollas, from two of these, 
soaked as carefully as possible, the above description is given, Their colour is not 
particularly noted by the native collector, who simply remarks “flowers red,” with 
reference doubtless to the purple or claret-coloured calyx. Further examination of less 
advanced specimens will be required in order to confirm the existence of a distinct 
annulus: Its other characters however amply justify its title to specific rank. It is 
not very like any of the hitherto described Indian Gomphostemmata. The fact that the 
flowers occur on independent leafless stems or scapes recalis the habit of 6, chinense 
Oliv., and the fact that the calyx and less markedly the bracteoles are purple-coloured 
recalls also С. Curtisii, and б pedunculatum which are the other members of the group 
