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D. Prain — So7ne additional species of Pedionlai-is. [No. 3, 



Burma: Slian Hills, Fort Stedman, 6000 feet, (Collett !). Distrib. : 

 Yunnan. 



Stems 80-100 cm. thicker than crowquill, roots not seen, spikes 

 8-12 cm., calyx not cleft 6 mm. irregularly 5-toothed glabrous teeth 

 deltoid unequal entire margins villous, corolla dark red tube 14-16 

 mm. obtusely bent at top of calyx internally glandulai'ly hairy, ovary 

 ovate, stigma exserted, capsule 7'5 mm. ovate acuminate slightly 

 exserted, seeds 2'6 mm. testa rufous distinctly reticulated. 



31. (— ). P. KEX Clarke. 



Stems tall erect glabrous simple or sparingly fastigiately branching 

 above strict 4-angled or slightly 4-winged, radical leaves evanescent 

 cauline petioled 4-nately whorled whorls alternate lower petioles dilated 

 at base upper winged connate in a campanulate perfoliate sheath 

 laminae elliptic pinnatisect rhachis winged segments lanceolate acute 

 pinnatifid, bracts foliar connate at bases in membranous tubes longer 

 than calyx, flowers laxly interruptedly spiked, calyx subsessile thinly 

 membranotis deeply cleft and bifld, corolla tube straight 2-3 times as 

 long as calyx, lip stipitate strongly 2-plicate 3-lobed lateral lobes sub- 

 rotund half the size of central cucullate projecting elliptic broader than 

 long, galea curved hardly beaked bidentate below apex, stamens inserted 

 opposite top of ovary filaments rufous-villous above. P. rex Clarke ; 

 Maxim., Mel. Biol , xii. 875, t. 5, f . 103. 



Assam: Khasia Hills, (Mann! Clarke). Buema : (Brandis !). 

 DiSTElB : Yunnan ; Kwei-tschou. 



Stems 40-120 cm. roots fusiform, spikes 8-30 cm. in 4-flowered 

 whorls 20-30 mm. apart, bract sheaths 10-12 mm. deep, calyx 10 mm. 

 cleft to base below and above segments deltoid entire or minutely 



2 or 3-toothed at apex, corolla yellojv tube 24-30 mm. 2-plicate like lip 

 glandularly ciliate within, galea teeth long subulate, ovary ovate disc 

 prolonged anteriorly as an erect conical spur equalling ovary, stigma 

 included, capsule rhomboid hardly exserted from bract sheath, seeds 



3 mm. elliptic black minutely reticulated. 



Most nearly allied to P. superha Franehet, where also the flowers 

 are sheathed by connivent bracts, but which has a very different calyx 

 and corolla. 



32. (— ). P. COLLATA Prain. 



Dwarf stems slender 2-fariously hairy single or tufted, leaves long- 

 petioled radical caospitose cauline 1-pair opposite or 0 oblong acute 

 pinnatipartite segments ovate pinnatifid serrate, bracts foliar 2-pairs 

 opposite, flowers 3 or 4, pedicelled, calyx oblong glabrous, corolla tube 

 wide cylindric straight almost twice as long as calyx, lip 3-lobed 2- 

 plicate lobes large rounded nearly equal, galea straight erect acuminate 



