206 D. Prain— /Some new Indian Plants, [No. 5, 



1 -celled simple, lower thickened, connective produced behind into an 

 obloncr appendage with an acute tip. 



Malayan Peninsula : Perak, Scortechini 2121 ! 



Whole plant 1*5 — 3 in. high. Stems very stout, covered with linear scales. 

 Flowers sessile or shortly peduncled, each with an oblong cncullate basal bract "75 

 in. long, all parts loaded with sticky mucilage. Calyx spathaceous rupturing into 

 usually 2, occasionally 3-4 lobes in the fully opened flower, the tube 1 in., the lobes 

 •25 in long. Corolla-tvihe white, with a yellow line inside in front, 2 in. long, infun- 

 dibuliform and curved above, the lower part narrowly cylindric 1 in. long ; limb 

 2-lipped; upper lip outermost in bud, erect, 2-lobed, lower lip 3 -lobed, spreading. 

 Stamens didynamoua, anthers all conniving ; filaments glabrous, inserted below 

 middle of corolla-tube, 1-celled, adnate to the enlarged filament, lower pair with 

 a projecting acute posterior process. Ovary 1-celled, placentas 2, 2-fid, uniform- 

 ly covered with ovules ; style glabrous downwards ; stigma peltate, flat, '2 in. in 

 diameter, 



A species that most nearly approaches 0. Hookeri from the Khasia Hills, but by 

 coloration and other characters is evidently abundantly distinct, Scortechini's 

 specimens are not good but are fortunately supplemented by a manuscript descrip- 

 tion written in the field, Scortechini takes the processes on the lower anther-cells 

 to be empty cells, but they appear to the writer to be due to the production beyond 

 the anther of the thickened connective. 



CXII. Labiatji. 

 15. ELSHOLTZIA Willd. 



13. Elsholtzia (Euelsholtzia) kachinensis Prain; pubescent, 

 leaves short petioled, ovate acute, crenate, spikes broad, pubescent, 

 fruiting calyx '2 in. long, campanulate, glabrous. 



Upper Burma: Kachin Hills, Nakharan Road, near water, Shaih 

 Muqim ! Sima, 6,500 ft. elev. — Shaih Muqim ! 



A prostrate herb, stems pubescent 6-14 in. long, rooting below. Leaves -e-'T in. 

 long, •35-'4 in. wide, base cuneate, entire, margin elsewhere crenate, glabrous except 

 the faintly puberulous midrib above, quite glabrous and paler beneath, nerves obli- 

 que, about 5 pairs, rather prominent beneath ; petiole '15 in. long, glabrous. Spikes 

 •5-'75 in. long, '4 in. wide, rather pubescent, bracts subsecund, ovate to orbicular, 

 cuspidate, imbricate, membranous, '25 in. across ; cusps subulate. Calyx in flower 

 minute, in fruit slightly vesicular, teeth 5, short, triangular, with 5 nerves running 

 up to the teeth and as many to the sinuses, the latter being close fine reticulations 

 rather than nerves each with on the outside a corresponding raised spongy ridge. 

 Corolla pinkish-purple, tube exserted curved, margins of lobes of upper lip ciliate, 

 elsewhere glabrous. Disk with a large clavate gland much exceeding the ovary 

 and as long as the ripe fruit. Fruit of a solitary nutlet with three abortive nutlets, 

 the developed nutlet almost filling the slightly inflated fruiting calyx, 



A very distinct species. 



