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or yellowish umbo and a fringe papillate at the margin, a few of 
them larger and longer brown with broad resinous umbo and 
entire fringe scattered as little points amongst the others, at 
maturity the surface is cinnamon-coloured or somewhat rufescent 
and all the scales are coloured alike red and resinous ; petiole 
as much as I cm. long lepidote. Flowers about 8 in a short 
terminal raceme ; bud of the inflorescence large globose ; outer 
sterile bracts oblong mucronulate about 6 mm. long 4 mm. broad 
crustaceous tawny keeled lepidote outside ciliate, inner fertile 
bracts rounded mucronulate ‘cucullate crustaceous lepidote 
outside ciliate; pedicels slender 1.2 cm. long (elongating 
in fruit) divaricate lepidote. Calyx about 3 mm. long 5-cleft 
nearly to base; cup densely lepidote ; lobes ovate or elliptic 
obtuse about 2 mm. broad green densely lepidote outside. 
Corolla somewhat rotate deep purple outside more or less 
lepidote about 1.4 cm. long; tube about 5 mm. long 4.5 mm. 
diam. cup-shaped beardless traversed by 15 veins 3 to each 
petal ; lobes spreading vertically somewhat unequal posterior 
largest dark-spotted 6 mm. in diameter auricled imbricate the 
lateral nerves deliquescing from the base or near it. Stamens 
10 alternately long and short, longer about 1 cm. long exserted 
from the corolla-tube, shorter than corolla; filaments above 
the naked base (2.25 mm. long) densely whitely villous within 
the corolla-tube ; anthers oblong 2 mm. long. Ovary 3 mm. 
long sulcate white lepidote; style equalling ovary in length 
deflexed, expanding upwards into clavate tip crowned in middle 
by the lobulate stigma. Capsule conoid girt at base by calyx, 
clad by vestiges of peltate scales, about 7.5 mm. long 4 mm. 
in diameter about the middle, crowned by the enlarged persistent 
style. ; 
Bhutan. Toregong Pumthang. Alt. 14,000 ft. Dwarf 
bush, 2 ft. R.E. Cooper. No. 2224. 23rd Sept. 1914. ; 
Bhutan. Champa Pumthang. Alt. 12,000 ft. 3-ft. bush, 
loose habit. Purple flowers. R. E. Cooper. No. 4009. 9th 
une IgI5. 
; Biteeah Singhi Kurted. Alt. 13,000 ft. 4-ft. bush. In 
fruit. R.E. Cooper. No. 4285. 2nd Aug. 19th. : 
An interesting new species of the Lepidotum series finding 
its nearest ally in Rh. obovatum, Hook. f. The leading vegetative 
character of distinction is the under-leaf indumentum. It is 
on the adult leaves dark cinnamon-brown and becomes sometimes 
blood-red and quite like the indumentum of the Anthopogon 
series. There is no question here of an Anthopogon. The 
plant has the long pedicels and open beardless somewhat rotate 
corolla expanded with its face nearly vertical of the Lepidotum 
series, The leaves are larger than in Rh, obovatum and are not 
