32 D. Prain — A review of the genus Colcmhounia. [No. 1, 



by no means conveyed by the figure, which represents a plant that, as 

 Sir Joseph Hooker says,* cannot be distinguished from O. coccinea vab. 

 paiviflora. These two plants are however remarkably dissimilar in 

 tomentum, the hairs being stellate in var. parviflora, as they are in all 

 the other forms of C. coccinea, but simple in G. elegans. As regards 

 the degree of tomentum of G. elegans it is the description that is accurate, 

 the figure that is misleading. 



In 1834 Bentham again dealt with the genusf , and on this occasion 

 still confined O. vestita to the Kamaon plant of Blinkworth, though in 

 C. coccinea he now recognized only two forms : — 



(1). G. coccinea proper, which now includes the original 

 plant described by Wallich, as well as the Nepalese portion 

 of Wallich's G. vestita ; this variety therefore now includes 

 the original C. coccinea and Bentham's own C. coccinea 

 vae. major. 

 (2). var. (3. parviflora Benth., which is the same as the plant 

 so named in 1829. 



The Burmese C. elegans is defined in the Wallichian sense. 



In 1848 BenthamJ followed in the main his treatment of 1834, but 

 as regards G. coccinea confined the Wallichian number 2085 to var. 

 parviflora alone, although, as we have just seen, this number applies in the 

 Catalogue to every specimen of Colquhounia collected in Nepal. Under 

 G. vestita also Bentham diverged somewhat from his previous treat- 

 ment by admitting into the species a plant sent by Griffith from Assam. 

 This is, however, a plant that must be kept specifically apart from G. 

 vestita if G. vestita deserves to be held specifically distinct from G. 

 coccinea ; while, even if G. vestita and G. coccinea be conspecific, this 

 Assam plant is still varietally distinct from both. 



In 1850 Sir William Hooker figured§ as G. coccinea a plant raised 

 at Kew from seed sent by Wallich from Nepal. This is the plant 

 originally figured by Wallich in the Tentamen, and therefore is not 

 exactly the one originally described by him there and in the Linnean 

 Society's Transactions ; it is not typical G. coccinea, but is Bentham's 

 C. coccinea var. parviflora. 



In 1851 Schlechtendal described || as G. mollis a plant whose origin 

 he was unable precisely to trace. His description is, however, so full 



* Flora of British India, iv, 674. 



t Labiat. Gen. 8f Sp 644. 



% DC. Prodr., ii, 457. 



§ Bot. Mag., lxxvi, t. 4514. 



|| Linnaea, viii, 681. 



