1890.] D. Prain — Some additional species of XjSkhisiias. 311 



flowered, distant, caZi/aj glandular- pubescent teeth triangular acute, corolla 

 tube exserted. 



Upper Burma; Mawyne on the Yunnan frontier, /. Anderson. 

 DiSTRiB. S. W. Yunnan, at Momien, Anderson. 



Rootstock slender creeping, stem 25 — 30 cm. simple or branching 

 at the base, radical leaves very small (l* cm. long 075 cm. wide, petioles 

 as long), cauline 2"5 cm. long 2* cm. across, petioles 1'5 — 2 cm., hirsute 

 with spreading hairs, calyx widely campanulate, slightly oblique, 5 mm. 

 long (tube 3*5 mm., teeth 1*5 mm.), corolla 12 mm. long (tube 7 mm.), 

 pale pink. 



A very distinct species. 



42 6. MOLUCELLA Linn. 



Annual or perennial glabrous herbs, leaves opposite petioled or 

 sessile, incised crenate or entire. Whorls many-fid., all axillary, brac- 

 tioles subulate pungent. Galyx obliquely campanulate below, striately 

 5 — 10-nerved, dilated above into a broad reticulated limb elongated be- 

 hind and marginally 5-muconate or 5 — 10-spined. Corolla tube included, 

 obliquely annular within, slightly enlarged upward, limb 2-lipped, upper 

 erect concave entire or emarginate, lower 3- fid, lateral lobes oblong sub- 

 erect, mid- lobes spreading obcordate. Stamens 4, ascending didynamous 

 lower longer, anthers conniving 2-locular. Style 2-lobed, lobes subequal 

 subulate. Nutlets triquetrous truncate smooth. — Species 3, Mediterra- 

 nean and Orient. 



§ § Chasmonia ; calyx-limb 2-lipped, prolonged behind as an erect 

 spinescent tooth and in front as a spreading 3-parted lip with smaller 

 radiating marginal lateral spines. 



1. MoLUCELLA 0T0STEGI0IDB3 Prain; glabrous, leaves sessile lan- 

 ceolate acute quite entire nerveless, bracts 3-partite subulate spinescent. 



N- W. Frontier; Suleiman range, in the Zam defile leading to 

 Waziristan, 3500 feet, Stewart. 



Erect, branches slender 4-angled, green, leaves 4 cm. base narrow- 

 ed, tips sharp but hardly pungent, whorls distant, bracts all spiny, calyx 

 9 — Ll-toothed, glabrous rigidly coriaceous, tube 8 mm. exceeding bracts 

 throat naked, upper tooth 6 mm., lower 3 mm. long 4 mm. across, corolla 

 7 mm., tube short, upper lip entire villous, stamens exserted. 



Habit of Otostegia Aucheri Boiss. with calyx like that of Molucella 

 spinosa Linn, only much smaller ; excluded from Lagochilas by its 

 glabrous anthers. 



42 c. LAGOCHILUS Bunge. 



Smooth rigid herbs or undershrubs with incised leaves often with 

 spinescent-tipped lobes, bracts foliar decreasing upwards. Whorls 

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