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seen to distinguish it sufficiently from all of them. Аз to leaves it most resembles 
the Tavoy specimens of P. acuminata (type) as understood by Mr. Clarke. In the 
Kew collection the plant most like this in foliage is Henry n. 4153 from Ichang, 
С. China, and there noted by Mr. Hemsley as “Р. tinctoria Nees var., vel species 
propria.’ "Тһе Chinese plant has, however, much broader bracts than ours though it 
has a similarly condensed inflorescence. Hypoestes salicifolia О. Kuntze, represented at 
Kew by an authentically named, but flowerless, scrap, also resembles this somewhat 
in foliage and inflorescence as well as іп bracts. | 
Pare 80.—Peristrophe longifolia King & rain. 1, branch of plant from Sadon, Kachin 
Hills,—of natural size; 2, calyx, opened; 3, corolla, laid open to show staminal insertion; 4, anther 
cells, front view; 5, the same, from behind; 6, ovary, with style and stigma; 7, ovary, laid open; 
8, ovule,—all enlarged. 
G. K.; D. P. 
PLATE 81. 
88, PERISTROPHE FERA б, В. Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. 556 (1885), 
var. Gace! King $ Pran. 
Natural order Acanthaces. 
An erect rather rigid shrub; leaves ovate-lanceolate, long petioled, acuminate, 
margin entire or very shallowly crenate, quite glabrous on both surfaces, raphides 
distinct, base cuneate, 9—19 cm. long, 45--5 cm. wide; panicles compact, bracts 
ovate-acute, finely puberulous, distinctly nerved, eciliate, 1 сш. long, 4 mm. wide; 
calyz-teeth lanceolate, short; corolla pink, З mm, long, tube as long as limb; stamens. 
with pubescent filaments, anther-cells linear, the upper rather smaller and nearly half its 
length higher than the lower; capsule puberulous, 1:75 cm. long, ellipsoid, stipitate, 
4-seeded, seed-bearing portion 4 mm. across; seeds suborbicular, compressed, minutely 
papillose. 
SOUTHERN  Lusmari Нпля: Lungleh; Gage! Kuasta Hits, 2,000—4,000 ft. elev. ; 
Hooker & Thomson, 
This very distinct plant was on examination ее. by one of us to be a new 
species of  Perisírophe nearly related to P. fera Clarke. Specimens were sent from 
Calcutta to England and in compliance with our request Mr. С. В, Clarke, whose 
knowledge of the Acanthacee is very great, kindly compared them with the 
Peristrophe material preserved in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew. 
Mr. Clarke finds this plant apparently identical with some of the examples of his 
* P. fera" collected by Hooker and Thomson іп Khasia at 2—4,000 feet elev. and 
named, іп their Herb, Ind. Or., “Р. tinctoria, of which P. fera is perhaps only the 
wild state. Mr. Clarke deprecates the separation of the present plant as still another 
species. With this feeling we agree; the form is, however, so distinct, both from 
what has been described as typical Р. fera and from what has been distinguished 
as P. fera VAR. intermedia, that it is here accorded the rank of a new variety. 
Ргате 81.--Регізіторһе fera Clarke vam. Gagei King & Prain. 1, branch with flower and fruit, 
from Lungleh, Lushai Hills; 2, calyx, laid open’; 3, corolla, laid open; 4 stamens x 2; 5, ovary; 6 
fruit; 7, the same, laid open x 2; 8, seed. 
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