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296 PLANTAE CHINENSES FORRESTIANAE. 
‘Plant of 6-18 inches. Flowers pinkish-white. Ledges and 
crevices of cliffs and on limestone drift on the eastern flank of the 
Lichiang Range. Lat. 27° 25’ N. Alt. r1-12,000 ft. August 
1906.”’ G. Forrest. No. 2705. 
“Plant of g inches. Flowers pink. Growing on humus- 
covered boulders, same locality. Alt. 10,000 ft.” G. Forrest. 
No. 2758. 
Easily recognised by the narrowly cut leaves, the short gibbous 
tube of the corolla, and the glabrous ovary. 
VERBENACEAE. 
Caryopteris Forrestii, Diels. Sp. nov. 
Suffruticosus, saepe procumbens, 0°3-1'2 m. altus, omnibus 
partibus albido-velutinellus. Foliorum petiolus 0°5—1 cm. longus, 
lamina herbacea, supra viridis, molliter puberula subtus albo- 
tomentella, subovata vel oblonga, basin versus angustata, apice 
obtusiuscula, 2-5 cm. longa, 0°5—2°5 cm. lata, nervi primarii subtus 
prominentes. Inflorescentiae corymbosae et in axillis foliorum 
superiorum ortae et terminales, conspicue pedunculatae, albido- 
velutinellae. Flores pedicellati. Calyx subaequaliter 5-fidus, 
tubus circ. 1°5 mm. longus, rotundatus, segmenta anguste lance- 
olata, crassiuscula, obtusa, 2-2°5 mm. longa, intus tomentoso- 
marginata. Corolla viridi-alba, extus velutinella ; tubus rectus, 
haud gibbus, circ. 2°5 mm. longus, intus ad insertiones staminum 
barbatus, segmenta 4 superiora subaequalia ovata obtusa circ. 
I’5 mm. longa, 1°2 mm. lata, inferius longius (3-4 mm.) concavum, 
apice dentibus 3 alte trifidis ornatum. Stamina libera exserta, 
circ. 5 mm. longa. Stylus apice minute bilobus, discus ovarii 
dimidium subaequans. Calyx fructifer ad 4-5 mm. ampliatus, 
nuculae semiobovatae dorso puberulae margine subalatae ventre 
planae 2—2°5 mm. longae. 
“A shrub of 3-4 ft. Flowers greenish-white. Dry, stony 
ground at head of the Teng chuan valley. Elev. 8000 ft. Flow. 
September 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 79. 
“ Shrubby plant of 1-2 ft., usually prostrate. Valley of the 
Yangtse below Pung tzu la. Dry, limestone country. Elev. 
gooo ft. Fruit, September 1904.” G. Forrest. No. 100. 
The Pung tzu la specimen is more xerophytic, having more 
spreading branches and considerably smaller leaves. 
Allied to C. mongolica, Maxim., but the leaves are larger and 
the flowers very much smaller. 
