137 
ALABASTRA DIVERSA.—Parr XII. 
By Spencer te M. Moorz, B.Se., F.L.S. 
(Puare 471.) 
Sertutum Asratico-AUSTRALIENSE, 
Tue Asiatic plants described in the following memoir include a 
few which Major Melville, R.A.M.C. collected betw = November, 
1903, and January, 1904, in the Shan States, and Mr. F. N. Garry 
presented on his behalf to the National Herbarium. Although 
um. Major Melville also sends two Gamopetale till now un- 
recorded, from the Shan States, viz. Lettsomia hirsutissima C. B. Cl. 
and Strobilanthes Dalhousieanus C. B. Cl. enasserim plant a 
herb. Beddome, and two species from a very large and im 
collection made in Central China by Father a ‘Scallan, jamais 
the list of continental novelties. he remainder are Australian, 
except three from the ee Islands saniohind to the Museum 
by the late Mr. John White 
Rusiacez. 
Mussenda breviloba, sp.n. Ramulis teretibus cerebro foliosis 
ferrugineo- i casein: foliis subéessilibas ellipticis utrinque an angus- 
tatis breviter acuminatis subcoriaceis supra pubescentibus subtus 
acutis, cymulis dilute fulvo-tomentosis 5-9-floris in corymbis sub- 
laxis foliis brevioribus dispositis, pedicellis quam parte brevioribus, 
bracteis bracteolisque subula tis, calycis tu rbinati tomentosi lobis ad 
u 
cuj e in lami n atam ovatam acutam pubescentem 
expanso, corolla qu lyx circa 3-plo longiore tubo extus to- 
nuato sursum subito dilatato lobis maxime 
mento abito lobis 
abbreviatis triangularibus breviter acuminatis, antheris apice acutis, 
Hab. Shan i roadside at Kalau, 4000 ee a gore 
— 6-0-10°0 x 8°5-5:0 cm., summa a4O0e 
1:8 cm.; cost secu ialacia coagers 8, leviter states: Pe ae 
45° ile centrali inserta et he Te ome eminentes © on 
ines. Stipule 0°4-0°5 em rymbi circa 
eed lat rapes 4 aida Pedicelli 0- 1-0: "2em : , bractese 
modice cirea 0-5 cm., bracteole# 0:1-0-2 cm. long. Ca alyx totus 
0°35-0°45 em. long. ; lobi 0-2 cm. long., rarius ‘paullulum longiores. 
Corolla 1-5 cm. — tubus inferne vix 0-1 em. faucibus 0-23 em. 
diam. ; lobi 0-22 em. long. rime Sisters ‘4 cm. long. 
very distinet 1 plant, known at once from species near it by 
reason of the very short and ey broad lobes to the calyx. 
These lobes are probasly. pee though in the absence of —_ 
this must remain doubtfu 
Journat or Borany. oe 43, (May, 1905.] L 
