1896.] D. Prain — Two additional species of Lagotis. 63 



The flowers aro reported variously as "light-yellow," "yellowish-green," and 

 " white." The lower lip of the corolla is entire, ovate-oblong, rather wider than the 

 upper lip. 



5. Lagotis cashmeriana Bupr. Sert. Tianschan. 64 (1870). L. glauca 

 SUB-SP. australis Maxim. Bull. Acad. Imp. Petersb. xxvii. 523 (1881) 

 quoad pi. himal. partim. L. glauca var. cashmeriana Hook. fit. Flor. 

 Brit. Lid. iv. 659 (1885). Gymnandra cashmeriana Eoyle in Benth. 

 Scroph. Ind. 4^7 {18S5) ; III. Himal. 291, t. 73, f. 3 (1839); Choisy in 

 DG. Prodr. xii. 25 (1848). G. Stelleri Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. 8r T. vix 

 Cham. Sf Schlecht. 



North-West Himalaya : Chamba to Kashmir. 



M. Choisy {loc. cit.) felt disinclined to separate this form from L. Stelleri, and 

 Drs. Hooker and Thomson when issuing their Indian Herbarium were even more 

 decidedly of the same opinion. Unfortunately the writer has never had an oppor- 

 tunity of examining L. Stelleri of which there is no example at Calcutta. His 

 friend Mr. Rolfe who, under instructions from Mr. Dyer, Director of the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, has kindly examined the specimens sent from Calcutta for com- 

 parison with the material in Kew Herbarium, writes : — " Lagotis Stelleri is 

 " apparently distinct from L. glauca var. cashmeriana Hook, f . And whatever the 

 " difference between L. glauca and the forms since distinguished from it, they are 

 " more than mere synonyms. Possibly some are geographical forms." 



In deference to this expression of opinion the writer, while following M. Choisy 

 in keeping up L. Stelleri, regarding the claim of which form to specific rank that 

 author expresses no doubt, has felt compelled to retain specific rank for L. cashmer- 

 iana also. For whatever its relationship to L. Stelleri, may be, there is, in the 

 writer's opinion, no doubt that L. cashmeriana cannot, with any approach to either 

 convenience or accuracy, be placed in L. glauca. 



6. Lagotis crassifolia Prain ; (Plate II) radical leaves ovate 



obtuse or subacute, base cuneate, margin serrate, petiole stout narrow ; 



cauline similar but sessile ; spike elongate, bracts ovate acute shorter than 



the flov^ers. 



SiKKiM : Tankra, G. Gammie ! Phari : King's Collector ! South-East- 



ERN Tibet ; Tern-la, one day north-east of Phari, Kirig's Collector ! prov. 



Tsang, Lama UJyen Gyatsho ! 



Rootstock stout naked, with thick fleshy fibres. Leaves thickly fleshy, subrugose ; 



radical 1-2 in. long, ^-1 in. wide, petiole 2— 2i in. ; cauline ^-f in. Flotvering 



stems several 2-4 in. high, decumbent below, rather slender ; spikes ^^2-2^ in., bracts 



i_i {^ Calyx dorsally plane, 2-lobed at tip, longer than tube of corolla and bracts. 



Corolla tube hardly ^ longer than lips, lower lip 2-fid, casually 3-fid. Anthers 



subsessile. Style included. 



In size and appearance this resembles L. cashmeriana, but has very different 



flowers. As regards texture of leaves this approaches L. hrevituha ; as regards 



corolla it is almost exactly intermediate between L. hrevituha and L. glauca var. 



siTckimensis. Under the system of treatment adopted by Mr. Maximowicz, this form 



would doubtless also be placed in L. glauca. Mr. Rolfe, however, who is one of the 



