

Vol. IV, No. 9.]  Dioscorearum novarum Descriptiones. 453 
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ntif, 
orum parvorum vel bractearum, ad 7 cm. longi, -flori ; rhachis 
albo-pubescens, basiad 10 mm. sterilis, eed rege: solitarios 1 mm. 
distantes gerens, teres, nec tortus; alabas lobosa ; bractese 
Wot acuminate, in pedicello insides pubescentes ; ; 
practeole absunt. Peri ‘anthit mascult lacin iseriate ; exteriores 
rotundato- neice acute, pubescentes, 1 mm. long; interiores 
ovate, breviores, crassiores. Stamina sex -@ifformia, tres ante peri- 
anthii lacinias exteriores fere didyme in trorsm, tres altera parva 
forsan sterilia, omnia eequilonga, dimidio laciniis breviora. Spice 
femines solitarie, i in axillis foliorum superiorum, 3—4 cm. longa, 
re; rhachis tenuis, in 15 mm, basalibus sterilis, pubes- 
cens ; bractez ovate, acum inate, 1 mm. longe ; bracteole parve, 
pubescentes, margine ciliate, lanceolate. Perian thit foeminer laci- 
nize biseriate, pubescentes, biggies ovato-lanceolate acute, 
interiores oblanceolate min Ovarium pubescens. Capsule 
erabinentee, fulvee, herbaceo- a amen nee apice truncate, basi 
fe; alee semi-obovate, concolores, 12—14 mm. longe, 
mm, late. Semina ignota. Dioscorea pat hess alae (sphalm.) 
Duthie in Strachey, Catalogue - the plants of Kumaon, 1906, 
p. 186. Vitis No. 9032, Wall. Cat 
Montes Inpiz Boreatis Et Gears AUSTRO-OCCIDENTALIS.. Mon- 
tes Himalayice sine [loot * rome in Herb. Ind. or. Hook. f. 
omson;: in principatu Kas o 
C. B. Clarke, 31548; in principats 2 Chaath a valle Sao, 
ped. alt., Lace, 1201: in regione Kulu, Trevor cor hams R. E. P. 
27893 : in principatibus Sinileneihos prope Simla, 7. Thomson, 
P 
ly 6000 ped. 
alt., Madden, et 5000—6500 ped. alt. Strachey; in districtu Dehra 
Dun ad Missouri, 5500— 6000 ped. alt., sine Mackinnon, Gollan, 
22145 in Mus. R. E. P., Duthie, 23098 ; in us me he ajpur, 
ad 4000 ped. alt., Gollan: in Gar’ hwal, ial Dutt Pant, 19963 
in Mus. R. E. Pusete 10 Nepalia, probabiliter ex vicinitate urbis 
thie Scull : montes Bhutanice forsan, sine loco, 
Gri 956 (K. D 5560). Montes Khasiane, sine loco, De Silva 
in Wali, Coll., 9032; infra Cherrapunji, Hooker f. et T. Thomson ; 
Soyung ad 5500 ped. alt., C. B. Clarke, 44724. In Chine provincia 
unnan, sine loco, Bons ad’ Anty ; ad. oo pa 5500 ped. 2g 
H hortorum regalium ad Kew et ero 
Stn 8 ao haec c eet Kunth, facile 
negligentia confunditur ; at enim s dantinets est. — 
