New Species of the Genera Phtheirospermum 
and Pedicularis. 
BY 
GUSTAVE BONATI. 
ProrEssor BAavLEY BALFour has kindly entrusted to me the 
study of numerous species of Pedicularis which have arrived at 
the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, since 
the beginning of the great war. I express to him here as well as 
to Mr W. W. Smith my deep appreciation of the pleasure which 
the study of these beautiful plants has given me. The speci- 
mens which I have determined come from the collections of 
Mr George Forrest, Captain Kingdon Ward, Mrs Clemens, Mr 
Reginald Farrer, Mr C. Schneider, Mr Ridley and from the 
Reverend Fathers Maire and Monbeig. 
Mr Farrer has visited alpine Burma and more particularly 
the Chimili Valley. His collections contain two new species :— 
P. nobilis, Bonati, P. multicaulis, Bonati; in addition two inter- 
esting varieties of species already known :—P. Pantlingii, Prain, 
var. chimiliensis, Bonati, and P. siphonantha, Don, var. bir- 
manica, Bonati. ‘This last plant is of great interest for it has 
the same relationship to P. siphonantha, Don that P. birostris, 
Bur. et Franch. bears to P. cranolopha, Maxim. 
Mrs Clemens has sent only two species of which one is in too 
poor a state for determination; the second is P. Tatarinowit, 
Maxim., collected in Shansi. 
_ Mr Ridley collected only P. chinensis, Maxim., in Kansu. 
Father Monbeig has sent from the region of Tsekou, P. 
tenuisecta, Franch., P. verbenaefolia, Franch., P. Monbeigi- 
ana, Bonati, P. Lipskyana, Bonati and P. likiangensis, Franch. 
Briefly, nothing new. Father Maire has collected in the region 
of Tong-chouan quite a series of species of which I give a list at 
the end of this paper, and among them I mark specially :—P. 
dolichantha, Bonati, P. pracalta, Bonati, P. tahaiensis, Bonati, 
P. tongtchouanensis, Bonati, P. tachanensis, Bonati which are 
new. 
Mr Schneider was a member of the Austro-Hungarian Dend- 
rological Expedition which throughout the war was working in 
the north-east of Yunnan. He has sent to Edinburgh five 
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-[Notes, R.B.G., Edin., Nos. LXIII-LXIV, November 1921.] 
