DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NovVaRUm. 251 
supra atro-violacea glabra, costa media sulcata, venis primariis 
utrinsecus S-10 fere occultis; subtus matura cinnamomea 
dense lanato-tomentosa, costa media purpurea plus minusve 
glabrescente, indumento ad circ. r mm. crasso e pilis dend- 
_tiformibus copiose ramosis ramis intertextis stratum unum 
fingentibus aedificato; petiolus purpureus circ. 1 cm. 
longus glandularum vestigiis plus minusve notatus. Flores 
in umbellam plurifloram compactam globosam _ dispositi; 
bracteae interiores membranaceae cervinae cucullatae  ob- 
Jongo-obovatae dense sericeae ad 3 cm. longae; bracteolae 
lineari-filiformes circ. 1.3 cm. longae a basi pilosae albo- 
eristatae ; pedicelli 1 cm. vel ultra longi dense rubro-glandulosi. 
Calyx circ. 3 mm. longus; cupula carnosula in limbum 2 mm. 
ongum membranaceum rubrum obscure et undulatim 5-lobum 
persistentem ampliata. Corolla infundibuliformi-campanulata 
coccinea cire. 4 em. longa intus septis incompletis ornata basi 5- 
- gibbosa, sacculis subatro-kermesinis; lobi emarginati 1.2 cm. 
longi 2.2 cm. lati. Stamina ro inaequalia, longiora circ. 3.5 cm. 
longa, breviora circ. 2 cm. longa; filamenta glabra. Discus 
glaber. Gynaeceum corollam fere aequans; ovarium conoideum 
cire. 5 mm. longum truncatum sulcatum dense rubro-glandulo- 
sum; stylus glaber; stigma parvum. 
Upper Burma. _ Chawchi Pass. Alt 11,000 ft. 
= Farrer No. 815 [Rh. aemulorum]. Flowering in the snow. 
Far finer than at Hpimaw making blots of scarlet visible for 
miles. Calyx, leaves and pedicels all of the same texture and 
the same intense dark scarlet as the flower (this seems occasional 
only). The plant here (if indeed the same) is not, or very 
rarely, a small stout tree, but rather a thin low little busk, flop- 
ping over precipices or making a tangle in the cane-brake. 
Farrer No. 1948. May 15, 1920. 
Mr Farrer’s second thought expressed in the field note is 
justified. This Chawchi Pass plant is not as he at first sup- 
posed it to be the Rh. aemulorum which he saw and collected at 
-Hpimaw Pass under No. 815, but a splendid new species of the 
same series (Haematodes) easily distinguished from Rh.‘ aemu- 
Jorum by the smaller leaves glandular more or less or with traces 
of glands, the thin glandular pedicels and the densely glandular 
ovary. 
. To a casual look this Chawchi Pass plant resembles more 
closely Ward’s Rh. mallotum—and I must say here that further 
examination and comparision of the Wardian specimen of Rh, 
mallotum begets in me a doubt as to its specific distinctness from 
Rh. aemulorum. ‘The material of it for study is very slight—a 
few separate leaves and a couple cee flowers all stamped with the 
mark of drying in the tropics. The leaves are all. much 
smaller than in Rh. iiilieticm; their underleaf indumentum 
