1S93.] D. Prain — Two species of Peclicularis. 7 



I possess the following examples of E. rotundata. One male and 

 one female fromBeeling, Upper Burma, taken on 27th March, 1886, two 

 males on the 29th idem, one female on the 14th April, by Lieut. 

 E. T. "Watson ; two males taken in the Pegu Yoma, Burma, by a native 

 collector employed by the Phayre Mxiseum, Rangoon, in December ; 

 one female from Quaymoo, Tenasserim, captured in March and another 

 in November, in the Yoonzaleen Valley, also in Tenasserim by Major 

 C. T. Bingham. 



Two species of Peclicularis. — By D. Prain. 

 (With Plates land II.) 

 [Received March 9th— Read April 5th.] 



In 1889 (Joum. As. Soc. Beng. lviii pt. 2, p. 255) the writer had the 

 honour to communicate to the Society descriptions of a number of new 

 Indian species of this genus. Since then a considerable number of new 

 species have been reported from China and Tibet and have been described 

 in vaiuous periodicals by Messrs Maximowic, Hemsley and Franchet, and 

 by the writer. Now, another new Indian species has been reported ; of 

 this a description is given below and the pi-esent opportunity is taken 

 of describing an allied new species from Szechuen. 



1. Pedicularis diffusa Prain, sp. nov. (Pl. I.) 



Elata simplex vel e collo diffuse ramosa, radice debili ramosa collo 

 esquamato, caulibus gracilibus simplicibus, foliis raclicalibus longe petio- 

 latis mox evanescentibus caulinis 4-natim verticillatis laminis gla- 

 brescentibus ovato-oblongis pinnatisectis, segmentis 5-8-jugis ob- 

 longis obtusis inciso-serratis ; floribus verticillatis verticillis numerosis 

 inter se remotis, bracteis foliaceis oblongo-ovatis petiolatis piunati- 

 fidis et inciso-serratis ; calycis breve pedicellati campanulati mem- 

 branacei inflati totius reticulati antice vix fissi dentibus majusculis 

 inaequilatis anticis et lateralibus ovatis inciso-serratis illis duplo his 

 4-plo summo deltoideo integro latioribus ; corollae roseae tubo suvsum 

 ampliato calyce duplo longiore basi infracto, labio 3-lobo lobis oblongo- 

 ovatis margine sinuatis lateralibus medio dimidio majoribus, galea 

 leviter arcuata tubo subcontinua apice subincurva erostri ; staminibus 

 ex adverso summi ovarii insertis filameutis anticis superne hirsutis ; 

 ovario ovoideo stigmate parum exsei'to, capsula anguste lauceolata apice 

 acuta calyce duplo longiore, seminibus ovoideis testa nigrescente minute 

 reticulatis. 



