168 D. Prain — Some new plants from Eastern India. [No. 2, 



1372. Francolinus vulgaris. — Very common up to 7000. I heard 

 a cock calling at Ramni, Garhwal (about 9000 feet), just above the 

 limit of cultivation. 



1462. Totanus ochropus. — I shot a Green Sandpiper in summer 

 plumage, and saw a few others, at Adabadri, Garhwal, on April 20th. 

 A few days later they disappeared. 



XII. — Novicise Indicaa XVII. Some new plants from Eastern India, — 



By D. Prain. 



[Received 11th June ; Read 4th July, 1900.] 



In this paper are contained descriptions of twelve previously undes- 

 cribed species of plants from the north-eastern frontiers of India. A 

 considerable number of these have been examined and compared at the 

 Kew Herbarium by Sir George King, who has kindly undertaken, for 

 some of them, the responsibility of joint authorship. The descriptions 

 are, as usual, dnwn up in such a way as to conform to the descriptions 

 given in Sir J. D. Hooker's Flora of British India. 



TILIACE.E. 



1. Grewia (Eugrewia) nagensium Prain; shrubby, leaves scabrous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, finely subequally serrate; cymes axillary, 

 peduncled ; buds obovate, striate ; drupe 2- or 1-lobed, subtesselately 

 rugose with lenticular swellings, each crowned by a stellate hair. 



Assam; Eastern Naga Hills at Narazu, /. W. Master 1263! Teock 

 Ghat near Tingali Bam, Prain s Collector 128 ! 262 ! Margarita, Prain y s 

 Collector ! 



Young shoots scabrous with stellate hairs ; branches terete, sparsely stellately 

 hairy. Leaves rather thick, 46 in. long, 2 5 in. wide, base rounded, 3-nerved, central 

 nerve with 3-4 pairs of slightly arching nerves, sparsely stellately hairy above, rather 

 densely stellately hairy, especially in the nerves, beneath ; stipules subulate as long 

 as the petioles. Cymes axillary, umbellate, few-flowered, peduncles *3-5 in. long, 

 pedicels as long, in fruit elongate and reaching "6 in., bracts triangular-lanceolate, 

 •2 in. long, stellate- hairy outside, striate within. Buds '25 in. long, *2 in. wide. 

 Sepals *4 in. long, lanceolate. Petals linear, *3 in. long. Torus densely adpressed- 

 rusty-tomentose, '15 in. long, cylindric. Drupe with 1 or 2 orbicular lobes, *3 in. 

 long and broad and *25 in. thick. 



The Calcutta Native Collector describes the flowers as yellow. The leaves most 

 nearly resemble those of the Burmese species G. microstemma ; the margins are, 

 however, more finely toothed. The flowers are quite unlike those of G. microstemma 

 and most closely resemble those of G. oppositifolia, but the torus is very considerably 



