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Pedunculata to which 6. chinense belongs. The general facies of the species nevertheless 
rather recalls the бота group of the $ Pogosiphon to which, from the presence of 
hairs within the corolla tube, it must necessarily be referred. If, however, we are right 
in supposing that these hain form a distinct annulus, instead of being scattered as in 
the other Stroditiaa, it must be considered in this respect as linking that group with 
the hitherto somewhat isolated G. Hemsleyanum. 
This is the second new species recorded since the publication by the writer in 
1891 of An Account of the genus Gomphostemma (Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. , Calcutta, iii. 227 ef 
84.) The other species, Gomphostemma furfuraceum Hallier fil, has been very fully and 
accurately described and figured by its author, after кайрай with the material in the 
Calcutta Herbarium, in Bull. de Vherbier Boissier vi. 851, 622 t, 9, f. 1 ae (1898) 
It is a species of Š Lugomphostemma, group Melissifolia, and as its bracts are not longer 
than the calyx it comes nearest to G, velutinum and С. Mastersii. The outer bracts are 
however in shape like those of G. ovatum and G. melissifoliun so that it stands, as its 
author has already indicated, intermediate between G. ovatum and 6. Mastersii. It is a 
native of Eastern Sumatra. 
Prare 76.—Gomphostemma incpinatum Prain. 1, plant from the Kachin Hills,—of natural sise; 
2, flower, with bract and bracteoles; 8, corolla, laid open; 4, calyx, in fruit, laid open to show 
nutlets in position; 5, single nutlet; 6, the same laid open showing seed within,—al/ enlarged. 
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PLATE 77. 
84, М№ЕРЕТА Pram Duthie. 
| Natural order Гама. 
Whole plant 35-45 dm. high, glandular-pubescent; rhizome woody; stems 
many, simple or branched, erect, rigid, scabrous, the lower portions hispid with stiff 
ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rounded or cordate at the base, 
spreading hairs; leaves i 
ower 
coarsely crenate, rugose on the upper surface, prominently veined beneath; 
leaves distinctly petioled, the upper smaller and subsessile; flora! leaves linear-lance- 
olate, acuminate, about 6 mm. long; verticillasters many-flowered; the lower ones 
distant and peduncled, the upper sessile; lowers hermaphrodite; bracts about 3 the 
length of the calyx, linear-lanceolate or setaceous, clothed with stiff spreading hairs; 
ealyz strongly 15-nerved, hispid with spreading hairs; tube cylindrical, curved, reddish- 
purple; mouth oblique; teeth lanceolate acuminate, 1 the length of the tube; corolla 
distinctly 2-lipped, exceeding the calyx; upper A erect, obcordate; lower deeply 
3-lobed, hairy inside towards the base; side-lobes rounded; terminal bifid at the 
apex, its sides 3-lobulate; stamens slightly exserted, about equal in length, the anterior 
pair attached lower down on the corolla-tube than the posterior pair; filaments hairy 
towards their bases; style about аз long as the stamens; лийеіз under 2 mm. long, 
oblong-oval, muriculate. 
N.-W. FRONTIER: Kurram Valley ; Duthie’s collector (No. 15432); Samana range, 
E. C. Hare. 
This very distinct species falls, by its characters, into the section Sin 
Boiss. 2, b (Flor. Orient. iv, 638). 
