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114 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM Novarum. 
obtusa basi rotundata vix attenuata, sessilia insertione lata, 
crassiuscula, supra viridia setis tuberculatis setulisque scabrida 
infra pallidiora dense setosula; costa infra eminens setosula 
setis longiusculis paucis intermixtis ; folia suprema + ovato- 
oblonga sensim decrescentia. Inflorescentia ramosa cymis 
-Tacemiformibus in paniculam terminalem usque ad 25 .cm. 
longam dispositis >, rami subfastigiati 10-20 cm. longi dense 
setuloso-hispidi; pedicelli -- I cm. longi setulosi; bracteae 
inferiores foliis similes sed ovatae minores, superne serfsim 
decrescentes, supremae breves lineares. Calyx + 1 cm. longus 
ad basim in lobos lineares partitus patenti-setosus atque dense 
setuloso-hispidus. Corolla circ. I-5 cm. longa tubulosa supra 
staminum insertionem sensim dilatata ad fauces 7-8 mm. lata, 
extus dense setuloso-incana, intus parce setulosa, coeruleo-rosea, 
lobis brevissimis vix 1 mm. longis, 3 mm. latis obtusis. Stamina 
inclusa filamentis circ. 7 mm. longis pilosulis, antheris cohaerenti- 
bus ++ 7 mm. longis. Stylus circ. 1.8 cm. longus sparse pilosulus. 
Nuculae ovoideae apiculatae tuberculatae sub lente lepidotae. 
“ Plant of 2-24 ft. Flowers bluish-rose. Open stony pasture 
in the mountains in the N.E. of the Yangtze bend, Yunnan. 
Lat. 27° 45’ N. Alt. 10,000 ft. ‘Sept. 1913.’ G. Forrest. 
No. 11,198. 
The broad oblong leaves distinguish this species well. The 
tuberculate finely lepidote seeds are also noteworthy. 
Oxyspora Howellii, J. F. Jeff. et W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
ultra; pedunculi infra ferrugineo-hirsuti, supra cum petiolis 
3-5 mm. longis furfuracei ; bracteae subulatae vix 1 mm. longae. 
Receptaculum circ. 4 mm. longum, ore circ. 3 mm. latum, 
clavato-campanulatum, sparsius furfuraceum ; lobi brevissimi 
