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pallide lilacinae luteo-oculatae oculo albo-cincto tubus_ basi 
albidus supra flavidus extusque sparsim farinosus in. flore 
brevistylo supra stamina ampliatus infra cylindricus ad 6 mm. 
longus ad orem lineis strumosis 10 (5 antipetalis majoribus) 
luteis puberulis annulatus, lobi patuli leviter recurvi obovati 
aperti profunde emarginati ad 5 mm. longi. Stamina in flore 
brevistylo ad medium tubi corollini inserta filamentis distinctis 
antherarum apicibus ab ore circ. 2 mm. remotis. Ovarium 
globosum ; stylus viridis, brevis calycis tubo brevior ; stigma 
parvum globosum. 
Microforma P. malacoidis, Franch. foliis minoribus haud 
late cordatis, scapis tenuioribus decumbentibus diversa. 
Yunnan. G. Forrest. 
P. malacoides, Franch. is a species with a wide distribution 
from the Shan States of Burma through Yunnan, both North 
and South. Over its wide distribution it presents a considerable 
range of variation, and several of its forms have already been 
described as distinct species. A supply of material sufficient 
to justify the mapping out of the microform variations of the 
aggregate is not yet available, but what we have seems to show 
that the type may be monocarpic or pluricarpic, and some of 
the monocarpic forms are annual. The forms range themselves 
in two series: one in which with generally larger leaves are 
associated tall scapes with many whorls of flowers—of this 
P. malacoides, Franch. is the centre; the other with smaller 
leaves and shorter scapes with one umbel or one or two whorls 
of flowers—the type of this is P. Forbesii, Franch. 
Under the name P. Forbesii, Franch. a plant was introduced 
to cultivation in 1891 by Vilmorin. It was monocarpic annual. 
The P. Forbesii, Franch. of cultivation at the present day is 
pluricarpic perennial forming stout rhizomes. It may be that 
two different microforms have been cultivated under the name. 
Plants of the larger-leaved tall-scaped type we owe in 
cultivation to Bees, Ltd., raised from seed collected by 
George Forrest. The first plants raised and flowered —see 
figure in Gardeners’ Chronicle, Ser. 3, 44 (1908), 396, figs. 
164, 165— belonged to the microform here described, 
not to the true P. malacoides, Franch. as that is shown 
in the Paris Herbarium and as it appeared later in plants 
raised also from Forrest’s seed. A distinction between the 
microforms was not made by Mr. Forrest in the field—and small 
wonder. Their difference was first noticed in cultivation by 
Mr. Laurence B. Stewart, who gave the name P. pseudomala- 
coides to the microform. It is a slenderer plant than true 
P. malacoides, Franch. with leaves which remain more prostrate 
and have the oblong rather than the ovate form ; the flowers are 
