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108 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM -_NOVARUM. 
pedunculi + 1 cm. longi, pilosuli atque minute glandulosi, 
ut pedicelli breves. Calyx 7-8 mm. longus, campanulatus par- 
cissime pilosulus minute glandulosus ; lobi 5 ovati circ. 3 mm. 
longi. Corolla 3.5-4 cm. longa extus sparse puberula ; tubus 
flavus fere 2 cm. longus supra ventricose ampliatus; lobi 5 
purpureo-coerulei rotundati, lobo antico caeteris multo majore 
fere 2 cm. longo. Stamina inclusa filamentis sparse minute 
capitato-glandulosis. Stylus glaber. Fructus deest. 
“Shrub of 4-9 ft. Flowers—limb purplish-blue, tube 
yellow. Open situations amongst rocks on the western flank 
of the Tali Range, Yunnan. Lat. 25° 4o’ N. Alt. 10,000 ft. 
Aug. 1913.”’ G. Forrest. No. 11,662. 
A slender floriferous species, growing at an altitude remark- 
able for the genus. 
Indigofera calcicola, Craib. Sp. nov. 
Species. nana lignosa ob folia brevia pilis argenteis arcte 
adpressis obtecta facile distinguenda. 
Frutex nana, 0.3-1.2 m. altus (ex Forrest); ramuli primo 
pilis albis interdum etiam brunneis medifixis dense tecti, mox 
glabri, brunneo- vel fusco-brunneo-corticati, laterales breves, 
cicatricibus prominentibus satis approximatis conspicue in- 
structi; rami glabri, lenticellati, cortice mox transverse dis- - 
siliente tecti. Folia 5-9-foliolata, 8-13 mm. longa, petiolo 
circiter 3 mm. longo suffulta, pilis argenteis medifixis adpressis 
omnino tecta, cum racemis ad apices ramulorum terminalium 
et lateralium brevium gesta ; stipulae minutae ; foliola elliptica, 
rotundata vel fere obcordata, apice rotundata vel parum retusa 
mucronata, basi late cuneata rotundatave, circa 4 mm. longa 
et 2.5 mm. lata, satis crassa, nervis lateralibus obscuris, petiolulo 
plerumque circiter 0.5 mm. longo suffulta; stipellae minutae. 
Racemi in ramulo quoque I-3, foliis breviores vel ea paulo 
superantes ; bracteae parvae rigidae fugaces; pedicelli 1 mm. 
longi, interdum paulo breviores. Calyx vix 2 mm. longus, lobis 
inter se parum inaequalibus ovato-oblongis acutiusculis obtusisve 
-75, mm. longis ciliatis saepius glanduloso-fimbriatis. Vexillum 
elliptico-oblongum vel ovato-oblongum, sessile, retusiusculum, 
7 mm. longum, 5.25-5.5 mm. latum; alae oblongae, 7.5 mm. 
longae, 1.5 mm. latae; carina 7 mm. longa, 2.5 mm. lata. 
Legumen vix maturum, teres, dense crispatim hirsutulum. 
unnan:—Mountains in the N.E. of the Yangtze bend. 
Shrub of 3-4 ft. Dry stony situations, 10,000 ft. G. Forrest. 
No. 10,350. 
Yunnan :—Mountains in the N.E. of the Yangtze bend. 
Dwarf shrub of 1-2 ft. Flowers dull rose. Open situations 
on limestone rocks, 11,000 ft. G. Forrest. No. 10,505. 
