1900.] D. Prain — Some new plants from Eastern India. 171 



straight processes. C. pubescens Prain in Bee. Bot. Surv. Ind. i, 252 

 not of Wall. 



Kachin Hills ; Myitkyiua, Prain s Collector ! 



A slender climber with glabrous stems, branches, peduncles and pedicels. Leaves 

 3-35 in. by 1'5-1*75 in. ; petioles "6-*75 in. Peduncles rather slender, as long as 

 petioles, 8-12-fld., pedicels '5-"6 in. slender. Calyx-segmenta lanceolate their tips 

 pinkish, glabrous, '2 in. long. Corolla slightly curved, 1*25 in. long, base slightly 

 inflated, upper third of tube somewhat abruptly funnel-shaped ; tube pale green 

 with small purple spots in upper third and with pinkish lines below ; lobes green 

 in lower, yellow in upper half aud the margins there purple-ciliate. Follicles slender, 

 spreading horizontally, each 4 in. long, 25 in. in diam., greenish with irregular red 

 streaks. Seeds about 20 in each follicle, narrow ovate, compressed, '4 in. long, 

 *12 in. wide, coma white, nearly twice as long as seeds. 



Erroneously distributed in 1898 under the name G. pubescens, this is to be 

 found in various collections. The species is perhaps most nearly related to 

 C. Thwaitesii Hook., from Ceylon, but is abundantly distinct. The present description 

 is drawn up from living specimens which have flowered in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta. 



ACANTHACE^E. 



7. GymnOSTACHYUM (Cryptophragmium) Listeki Prain; minutely 

 pubemlous ; leaves large, short-petioled, oblanceolate ; panicles mostly 

 lateral, many-flowered ; corolla *75 in. long. 



Chittagong ; Demagiri, in rocky places, Lister J 62 ! 



A small undershrub, uuder a foot high. Leaves attaining 8 in. by 3 in., widest 

 at the junction of the anterior and middle third, acute or acuminate, tapering 

 gradually in the basal half to a petiole '5-*75 in. long, margins entire, veins slightly 

 arched forward, 12-14 pairs, minutely puberulous on both surfaces. Panicles chiefly 

 from the axils of the lower leaves and the leaf-scars below these, l'5-2'5 in. long, 

 branches subspicate ; flowers solitary or clustered ; bracts small, linear. Sepals 

 '2 in., linear. Corolla puberulous. Anthers linear- oblong. Capsule '5 in., very 

 narrow, glabrate. Seeds ovoid, compressed. 



Very closely related to Gymnostachyum latifolium T. And. (Cryptophragmium 

 latifolium Dalz.), and with that species standing, as regards habit, rather distinctly 

 apart from the other Indian Gymnostachya. It is, however, very distinct from 

 G. latifolium on account of its differently shaped leaves, its shorter flowers with 

 different anthers, and its much smaller capsules. We are indebted to Mr. C. B. 

 Clarke, for having very kindly compared our specimens with the material preserved 

 in the Herbarium at Kew. 



8. Peristrophe longifolia King fy Pram; leaves distinctly 

 petioled, lanceolate, glabrous except for some adpressed hairs on midrib 

 above and below ; bracts lanceolate, faintly puberulous ; corolla pink, 

 125 in. long. 



Kachin Hills ; Sadon, Prain s Collector ! Eastern Naga Hjlls ; 

 near Balijan, Prain' s Collector ! 



