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flaccidifolius, Nees in DC. "Prod." xi. 194; (fig. "Bot. Mag." 

 t. 6917). — Assam, Burma, 1,000 to 4,000 feet elevation. Glabrous. 

 Leaves elliptic ; spikes forming rather dense panicles ; flowers 

 many, remote, 2 inches long, purple ; tube curved ; bracts 

 petioled, ovate, deciduous. 



g-lomeratus, Nees, DC. "Prod." xi. 173; (fig. "Bot. Mag." t. 3881, 

 as Goldfussia glomerata). — Khasia Hills and Burma, 1,000 to 

 3,500 feet elevation. Leaves ovate, acute, serrate, hairy ; flowers 

 capitate, the heads 1 \ inch long ; bracts persistent, 1 inch, her- 

 baceous, softly hairy ; corolla about 2 inches, purple, ventricose 

 upwards from a cylindric base. 



var. speciosus, "Bot. Mag." t. 4767. 



gfOSSypinus, Anders., "Jour. Linn. Soc." ix. 466; (fig. Bedd. " Ic. 

 PI. Ind. Or." t. 198). — Sispara, on the Nilgiris, 5,000 feet elevation. 

 Stems, under surface of leaves, and inflorescence densely covered 

 with creamy-white cottony down ; spikes axillary, simple or ternate ; 

 bracts lanceolate, obtuse ; corolla 1 J inch, ventricose above from 

 a short-curved cylindric base ; stamens only 2. See " Bot. Mag." 

 t. 7790. 



I had this in cultivation for some years, raised from seed 

 brought from India ; it was also in cultivation at Kew. Small 

 rooted cuttings were very effective in small pots only for the foliage. 

 The leaves are densely silky above when young, though nearly 

 glabrous in age. The densely woolly stems and under surface of the 

 leaves make it very attractive. When after eight or ten years my 

 old plants flowered, they died without seediug, and all the cuttings 

 behaved in the same way. It is also, I believe, lost at Kew, 

 probably in the same manner. 



isophyllus, Nees in " Wall. PI. As. Rar." iii. 88 ; (fig. " Bot. Mag." 

 t. 4363). Syn. Goldfussia isophylla. — Khasia Hills, and much 

 cultivated in India. Leaves linear-lanceolate, glabrous ; flower- 

 heads terminal, numerous, small-cymed, \ inch in diameter, 

 1-4-flowered ; bracts elliptic, obtuse, caducous ; corolla 1 inch, 

 pale blue, tube curved, cylindric, base much shorter than the 

 ventricose portion, lobes short, round. Very common in our 

 conservatories. It should be raised every spring from cuttings, 

 as these grow away rapidly and flower better than the old plants ; 

 it flowers more freely if rested about August or September and 

 placed in the open air for three weeks. 



Kunthianus, Nees in " Wall. PI. As. Rar." iii. 83 ; (fig. Wight, 

 "Ic." t. 448).— Nilgiris, 5,000-7,500 feet elevation. Leaves 

 elliptic, serrate, rigid, strongly nerved beneath ; spikes 3 inches 

 long, hairy ; bracts \ inch, ovate ; flowers 1 inch, bluish, tube 

 ventricose from near the base ; stamens 2 only. 



Micholitzii, "Gard. Chron." (1907), xli. p. 246.— Sumatra. A 

 half shrubby plant, 4 feet. Stem 4-angled ; leaves lanceolate, 

 6 by 2 inches, one much larger than the other ; petiole 

 1 inch ; racemes axillary, numerous, cone-like, about | inch ; 

 bracts rounded, white, green-tipped ; flowers white, shortly 

 exserted from the cone. Lately introduced by F. Sander. 



