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the centre of creation of the series should therefore be placed in 
the south-east of Tibet. It must be added that Dr Handel- 
Mazzetti of the Botanical Institute of the University of Vienna, 
who has recently spent five years in China and has reported some 
new species from West Yunnan (Plateau of Chungtien), has in- 
formed me of the presence of P. Kingii, Prain in the regions 
which he has explored. If this is correct it would serve as an 
argument in support of the supposition I have made above. 
9 Pedicularis lutescens, Franch, var. brevifolia, Bonati. 
Var. nov. 
This variety has all the essential characters of P. lutescens, 
Franch. but is a dwarf plant of 9-15 cm., annual, very hairy; 
stem simple; leaves similar to those of P. deltoidea, Franch., 
very hairy, 5-7 mm. long, oval-oblong, subsessile; calyx rela- 
tively shorter, 7-8 mm. ; tube of the corolla 2—3 times as long as 
the calyx ; hood and lower lip as in the typical form. 
‘‘West China :—Northern Yunnan. On stony pasture and in 
open pine forests on the N.W. flank of the Lichiang Range. Lat. 
24° 30’ N. Alt. 11,000 ft. Plant of 3-5 ins. Flowers pale 
yellow. Aug. 1914.’’ -G. Forrest. No. 13,028. 
44 ) Pedicularis lutescens, Franch., var. ramosa, Bonati. Var. nov. 
Wob 
Plant annual, much branched at the base, with branches di- 
varicate, glabrescent at the base, very hairy at the top; leaves 
suborbicular, obtusely crenulate with somewhat long petioles; 
petioles about 5 mm. long, lamina 10 mm. long and as much 
broad; bracts with membranous broadly dilated base. Floral 
characters of type; tube of corolla not exceeding the calyx. 
‘West China :—Marshy, stony pasture on the mountains in 
the N.E. of the Yangtze bend, Yunnan. Lat. 24° 45’ N. Alt. 
I1,000-12,000 ft. Plant of 2-4 ins. Flowers yellow. August 
1913.”’ G. Forrest. No. 10,775. 
Pedicularis jutescens, Franch., var. tongtchouanensis, Bonati. 
Var. nov. 
Plant robust, stems hairy, more or less flexuose, 20 cm. high 
or over, rarely branched; leaves hairy, subsessile, oval-oblong, 
29-30 mm. long, deeply pinnatilobed with triangular obtuse 
lobes ; petioles 2-3 mm. long, calyx membranous, deeply split in 
front into 5 lobes which are lanceolate, acute, much longer than 
broad, the top one entire, the lateral ones dentate ; tube of the cor- 
olla 11% times as long as the calyx, narrow; hood very long at the 
base and in a straight line with the tube, narrow (1.5 mm.), as 
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