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



Leaves 4-6 in. long, '75-1 in. wide, margin undulate, gradually tapering from 

 junction of middle and lower third to apex and to a slender petiole *75 in. long ; 

 raphides very slender plentiful on both surfaces. Bracts *75 in. long, *25 in. wide, 

 acute. Filaments sparsely pubescent ; anther-cells linear, one superposed for half 

 its length. 



This is very like a plant at Kew from Ichang, (Henry n. 4153) as regards foliage, 

 but the Ichang plant has broader bracts than the Kachin one though it has a similar 

 condensed inflorescence. Hypoestes salicifolia 0. Kuntze, represented at Kew by a 

 flowerless scrap, named by its author, resembles our plant in leaves, inflorescence 

 anct bracts without however quite agreeing with it absolutely in these characters. 

 Our plant has however the two-celled anthers that distinguish Peristrophe from 

 Hypoestes. Henry's n. 4153 from Ichang, at Calcutta, differs considerably from our 



LABIATE. 



9. Gomphostemma (Pogosiphon) inopinatum Prain; ascending, 

 leafy stems and flowering scapes distinct; leaves distinctly petioled; 

 spikes erect, not interrupted even at the base. 



Kachin Hills ; Langkon, 3000 ft. elev., Brain's Collector 1 



Stems ascending, rooting below, 4-grooved, and with rounded angles, several 

 from a woody rootstock with numerous tufted, woody, branching, slender roots ; 

 about a foot high ; densely clothed with a close, ash-grey, stellate tomentum, inter- 

 mixed with a copious pubescence of laxly spreading, long, white hairs. Leaves 4-6 

 pairs, the lowest small, the pairs 3-4 in. apart; petioles 1-1*5 in. (occasionally about 

 2 in.) long, pubescent like the stems but with fewer long, lax, white hairs in propor- 

 tion to the stellate pubescence; lamina broadly ovate-acute, 3-5 in. long by 1*75-3 

 in. wide, the base of lower leaves slightly cuneate, of the upper rounded ; margin 

 fiuely crenate except at the basal fifth ; nerves about 6 pairs, ascending ; upper sur- 

 face finely velvety with a soft, ash-grey, stellate pubescence interspersed with longer, 

 simple, subadpressed tomentum, under surface softly velvety with a felted, whitish- 

 grey, stellate pubescence. Flowers densely whorled, in radical spikes 2 in. long, 

 1*25 in. wide, on erect peduncles 3-6 in. long, with sometimes a pair of small foliaceous 

 opposite bracts about *25 below the spike; peduncles with pubescence exactly as on 

 the stem, but themselves terete and more slender ; floral bracts obovate, dentate, 

 sparsely stellate-pubescent tinged with pink, the lowest *5 in. long, '25 in. wide. 

 Calyx wide- cam panul ate, glabrous within, tube rather closely stellate externally, 

 limb with 5 equal, wide-triangular claret or purple lobes, sparsely stellate on the 

 etrongish central and weaker marginal nerves ; '5 in. long, *3 in. wide, the lobes 

 *2 in. long ; bracteoles obovate-lanceolate *2-*25 in. long, reddish. Corolla: *75 in. long, 

 upper lip subehtire, lower 3-lobed with slightly emarginate mid-lobe and inflated 

 throat, apparently annulate within. Stamens exserted, filaments hirsute at theii* 

 insertion. . Ovary and style glabrous. Nutlets usually 4, sometimes 2-3, reddish, 

 quite glabrous, wall very thickly coriaceous when dry. 



Only one of our specimens had a few rather shrivelled corollas, from two of 

 these, unsoaked as carefully as possible, the above description is given. Their 

 colour is not particularly noted by the native collector, who simply remarks " flowers 

 red," with reference doubtless to the purple or claret-coloured calyx* Further 

 examination of less advanced specimens will be required in order to confirm the 



