64 BALFOUR AND SMITH—BEESIA. 
dense pubescens. Inflorescentia 10-20 cm. longa racemosa 
simplex vel saepius basi ramosa 10—30-flora minute fulvo- 
pubescens ; flores singulatim vel 2-4 in cymas_ brevissime 
pedunculatas dispositi, pedicellis 5-10 mm. longis suffulti, 
bractea 3-8 mm. longa bracteolisque circ. 3 mm. longis_fili- 
formibus apice glandulosis praediti. Sepala 4-5, aestivatione 
imbricata patentia circ. 4-5 mm. longa medio 2-3 mm. lata 
ovato-lanceolata apiculata basi late cuneata exunguiculata 
glabra alba. Petalao. Stamina 20-25 erecta calycem aequantia 
filamentis gracillimis 4-5 mm. longis antheris minimis 0.5 mm. 
longis rimis lateralibus dehiscentibus. Carpellum solitarium 
4-5 mm. longum erga basin minute pubescens, forma simili 
gruis capiti; stylus circ. 2 mm. longus rectus vel paululo 
deflexus, stigmate truncatulo; ovula 8-10 biseriata suturae 
ventrali affixa. Folliculus fere maturus circ. 8 mm. longus 
(stylo persistente excluso) ab apice dehiscens membranaceus 
venis 6-8 oblique transversis notatus. Semina 4 vel plura 
+ 1.5 mm. longa ovoidea brunnea rugis oblique transversis, 
collari minimo lobatulo circa hilum praedita. 
“Northern Burma: below Feng-shui-ling Camp, near 
Chino-Burmese frontier. Amongst undergrowth of rain-forest 
in deep shade, wet clayey soil at gooo ft. altitude. Flowers 
white. June 1914.’ F. Kingdon Ward. No. 1660. 
“Yunnan, West China. Plant of 18-20 inches. Flowers 
creamy white. Open moist pasture on the margins of thickets 
on the Kari Pass, Mekong-Yangtze divide. Lat. 27° 40’ N 
Alt. gooo-ro,o00 ft. Aug. 1914.’’ G. Forrest. No. 12,955. 
This new genus is akin to the Japanese genus Glaucidium and 
to the Japanese and American Hydrvastis. It differs in the 
leaves being all radical, cordate in shape with very regular 
crenations but without lobing, in the racemose inflorescence, 
and the solitary carpels. The generic name is formed from the 
title of the horticultural firm Bees, Ltd., whose enterprise in 
the botanical exploration of China, Burma, and the Himalayas 
is well known. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATE CXLVIII. 
Illustrating Professor Bayley Balfour and Mr. W. W. Smith’s paper on Beesia. 
‘The plate is taken from a photograph by Mr. Robert M. Adam.) 
Prate CXLVIII.—Beesia cordata, Balf. fil. et W. W. Sm. 
