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~ Garuga Forrestii, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
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162 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
Planta ad 7. 5 cm. alta rhizomate gracili perennans. Caules' 
annui numerosi e caudice orientes graciles basi bene foliati, 
medio subnudi, cymis paucifloris terminati, plus minusve pilo- 
suli. Folia opposita ad 1.5 cm. longa, medio ad 3 mm. lata, 
petiolo vix 1 mm. longo pilosulo praedita, anguste lanceolata, 
apice subacuta, basi cuneata, tenuiter papyracea, atroviridia, 
supra sparsim pilosula, infra ad costam pilis albidis lineata, 
margine parce ciliolata; stipulae latae ad 4 mm. longae fere ad 
‘medium in dentes subsetaceos 3—7 incisae membranaceae brun- 
neae sparsim pilosulae. Cymae pauciflorae plerumque 3-florae 
terminales floribus duobus ex axillis superioribus orientibus saepe 
additis; pedunculi breves vix 5 mm. superantes pilosuli ; ; 
pedicelli 2-3 mm. longi terni bracteis stipuliformibus 1 incisis basi 
muniti. Calycis lobi 5 oblongi obtusiusculi circ. 0.5 mm 
tubus cum ovario circ. 1 mm. diametro pilis glockadiatia albidis 
dense indutus. Corolla rosea circ. 5 mm. longa breviter infundi- 
buliformis ad medium in lobos 5 lanceolatos fissa extra minute 
puberula. Stamina paulo infra sinus corollinos inserta, ad 
mediam corollam attingentia. Ovarium biloculare; ovula in 
loculis solitaria; stylus 4 mm. longus gracilis ramis brevibus. 
Fructus maturus deest 
“West China :—Chungtien Plateau, Yunnan, in stony, moist 
pasture. Lat. 27° 30’ N. Alt. 11,000 ft. Plant of 2-3 inches. 
Flowers rose. July 1914.’’ G. Forrest. No. 12622. 
‘‘Mountains east of Chungtien, in open alpine pasture. Lat. 
27° so! N. Alt. 14,000 ft. Plant of 1— 3 inches. Flowers 
rose. June 1917.’ G. Forrest. No.. 15084. 
The above species is referred to Galium with some doubt. It 
has evident affinity with the peculiar G. paradoxum, Maxim. 
from $.K. Manchuria. Forrest collected under No. 10126 on the 
descent to the Yangtze from the eastern boundary of the 
Lichiang valley a plant which I cannot separate by the descrip- 
tion from G. paradoxum. In the stipules and glochidiate hairs 
this plant suggests affinity with G. aberrans. ‘The latter however 
has pentamerous flowers and a corolla more infundibular than 
rotate. 
Species affinis G. pinnatae, Roxb. a qua foliolis stipellatis, 
floribus fructibusque multo minoribus inter alia longe recedit. 
ad. 15 m. alta. Rami crassi tomento denso fulvido 
patente diu persistente induti. Folia imparipinnata petiolo ad 
umque 7-ro cm. longa, 2.5-3.5 cm. lata, oblique lanceolata, basi 
subrotundata, apice longe acuminata, margine sertato-creiinta; 
