Segonia.'] Lxn. BBaoNUOBJ). (C. B. Clarke.) 645 



38. B. rubro-venla, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4689 ; caulescent, leaves eliipi;ic 

 at lanceolate acuminate entire or slightly angular undulate outer perianth-seg- 

 ments white with rose-red veins. A, DC. Prodr. jev. pt. i. 347. B. barbatal 

 WaU, Cat. 3679 B, partly. 



■ ■ ^uumi, Bkotak and Keasia Mts., alt. 3000-6000 ft, frequent. 

 , Bootstook thick. Plant 8-16 in., stem puberulous or minutely pubescent, Leaves 

 S'fi in-, usually narrow, sometimes elliptic, shortly pubescent on the nerves beneath 

 pthervise glabrous, base unequal rounded scaitely cordate ; peti<Sle 1-2 in. ; stipules 

 persistent, lanceolate, caudate, glabrous. Pedtmcles ^iUary, 3-6 in,, usually divided 

 only near the top and few-flowered ; bracts like the stipules and persistent ; flowers 

 medium-sized. Mai^ : sepals 2, rounded ; petals 2, narrower, white ; stamens numer. 

 pus, very shortly monadelphous ; connective produced, obtuse. Ff;iiale : perianth- 

 segments 5, 3 inner gradimlly smaller, white ; ovary glabrous ; styles 2, combined at . 

 th« base, very tortuous. Capsule |f-f by \-^i in. including the wings, often re- 

 curved in fruit, the broad wing much descending its upper edge concave ; broader 

 faces first falling away. Seeds ellipsoid. 



Vab. Meisneri, Wall. Cat. 6294; shortly caulescent, leaves linear-lanceolate very 

 tomentose on the nerves beneath. — Khasia Mts.', WalUch ; alt. 3500 ft., C. B. Clarke, 

 — leaves 2-4 by i-J in. ; petiole J-IJ in., pubescent, tomentose. Flowers and cap-., 

 sdes like those or B. riAro-vemia but smaller. WaEich's type examples look like a 

 distinct species, but the examples of C. B. Clarke connect the tvro. 



29. S. lacinlata, Soxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 649 ; caulescent, leaves roundly 

 ovate acutely lobed with soft pubescence, petioles brownrtomentose, outer 

 perianth-segments rose-red pubescent on the back, ovary pubescent. Bat. Mag. 

 t. 6021 ; A. DC. Prodr. xv. pt. i. 347 ; Wall. Cat. 3678 ; Kv/rs in Joum. As, 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 107. ? B. palmata, Don Prodr. 223. B- Bowringiana, Champ: 

 in SoohKew Jmim. iv. 120 ; Bot. Mag. t. 5182. 



NiPAL to BuKMA ; ascending in Sikkim to 7000 ft. Very common in Khasia and 

 Chittaqono. — DisTEiB. South China. 



Bootstook long, creeping, neither woody nor tuberous. Stem 6-24 in., more or less 

 brown-tomentose. Leaves 4-6 in. diam., always more or less lobed, lobes usually, 

 many, caudate-acuminate, often 2 in. long, ciliate, usually but slightly serrate,, 

 rounded or cordate more or less unequally at the base, pilose above, puhescent on 

 the nerves beneath and more or less villous or tomentose ; petiole 1 J-4 in. ; stipules 

 I in., persistent, lanceolate, mucronate, pubescent. Beimioles 3-6 in., usually from 

 one or two uppermost axils, tomentose ; bracts large, oblong, tomentose ; flowers 

 medium, not very many, always more or less glandular-pubescent on the back, 

 from. nearly white to deep rose. Male: sepals 2, long-elliptic ; petals 2, narrowly 

 obovate; filaments nearly free, about 50, anthers obovoid; connective little produced; 

 obtuse. Fhmaib: perianth-segments 5-4, inner gradually smaller; ovary vrith 

 pubescent, not mere glandular, roughness ; styles 2, divided from near the 

 base into 2 much contorted branches. Capsule ^ by i in. including the wings, 

 often recurved in fruit, with a descending wing ; dehiscing by 4 lines adjacent to, 

 and one on each side of, the two narrow wings. Seeds ellipsoid, somewhat ob- 

 ovoid. 



Vab.? ff.ava; flowers full yellow, leaves green finely serrate, ovary and sepals 

 pubescent or nearly glabrous.— Sikkim, alt. 5000 ft. ; J. B. H., Treutler ; DarjeaUng, 

 7000 ft. alt. ; C. B. Clarke ; Herb. Griffith (Kew Distrib. No. 2577).— Perhaps a 

 species: the plant has not the brovm-red tint of B. ladniata, the leaves are thinner • 

 and less softly hairy. Alph. DC. doubts the correctness of the colour of the flowers ; 

 it is a full deep yellow as noted on the specimens of J. D. H. and C. B. Clarke, 

 and as shown in the excellent figure of Cathcart preserved at Kew. 

 ' Vab. tuberculosa ; ovary with glandular tubercles not pubescent, flowers pale pmk 

 glabrous.— Sikkim, alt. 6000 ft. ; J. D. H., Treutler. 



