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SPECIES ASIATICAE. 195 
pallido-purpurea (?);. tubus basi cylindricus mox et subito 
ventricoso-ampliatus, extra sparsim pilosulus, intus apud fauces 
hic illic albo-villosulus; lobi rotundati 7-8 mm. diametro. 
Stamina perfecta 4 filamentis albo-villosulis polline typico. 
Ovarium albo-villosulum seminibus 4; stylus pilosulus. 
“ China :—Ta-tsien-lou (Principauté de Kiala), Thibet 
Oriental. Anno 1893. Soulié. No. 591 in Herb. Kew.” 
Between Batang and Tachienlu. Sept.—Oct. 1904. Consul 
General Hosie sine num. in Herb. Kew. 
’~ Strobilanthes Lamium, Clarke Mss. in Herb. Kew. descr. 
W. W. Sm. 
Species affinis S. versicolori, Diels et S. yunnanenst, Diels ; 
ab illo habitu humiliore, caulibus simplicibus, foliorum forma, 
inflorescentiis congestis, filamentis glabris inter alia recedit ; ab 
hoe caulibus simplicibus herbaceis, foliis glabrioribus magis 
incisis recognoscitur. 
Planta ad 45 cm. alta suberecta basi saepe plus minusve 
decumbens ; caules flexuosi supra pilis paleaceis saepe glanduloso- 
capitatis albidis dense induti, infra glabrescentes. Folia infra 
remota supra approximata, aequalia, petiolo circ. 1 cm. longo 
glanduloso-hirsuto tandem glabrescente suffulta ; lamina pler- 
umque 4-5 cm. longa, 2.5—3 cm. lata, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, 
apice acuta vel acuminata, basi late cuneata, margine (pro 
magnitudine grosse) serrata, in sicco papyracea, utrinque lineo- 
lata, supra atroviridis, sparsim setosula ad costam fulvido- 
pilosula, subtus multo pallidior ubique subsparsim pilosula vel 
setosula; nervi circ. 5 paria; folia suprema fere subsessilia 
congesta saepe lanceolata basim inflorescentiae amplectantia et 
suboccludentia. Inflorescentiae terminales breviter spiciformes 
4-8-florae ; flores subsessiles purpurei ; bracteae circ. 16 mm. 
longae, oblongae vel oblanceolatae (cum bracteolis circ. I2 mm. 
longis lineari-oblongis), pilis glanduloso-capitatis indutae. Calyx 
circ. 1.1 cm. longus in lobos lineares 5 lineari-oblongos glanduloso- 
pilosos ad imum fissus. Corolla circ. 3.5 cm. longa fere recta 
extra sparsim glanduloso-pilosula ; tubus basi cylindricus mox 
sensim ampliatus ; lobi rotundati circ.6 mm. diametro, Stamina 
perfecta 4 (Clarke teste nonnunquam 3) filamentis dense pilosulis 
polline typico. Ovarium apice pilosulum ; fructus maturus deest. 
“ China :—W. Hupeh near Chienshi. Flowers purple. July 
1900.” Wilson. No. 1300 in Herb. Kew. et Herb. Edin. 
Strobilanthes mekongensis, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis S. yunnanensi, Diels a quo foliis longe 
petiolatis tenuiter membranaceis, calycis segmentis longe et 
