18S9.] 



D. Prnin — Some additional species of Pediculai-is. 



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Momyeii, the locality of the single Calcutta gathering, is just withiu 

 the Yunnan frontier, techuicallj therefore this species does not deserve a 

 place in the Indian Flora ; as, however, when Upper Burma becomes 

 botanically better known this is likely to be met with the diagnosis is 

 given here. 



53. (25). P. CARNOSA Wall. ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, t. S, f. 52. 



54. (28). P. MiCROCALTX Hook./. ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, bl^'A, t. 4, 



f. 71. 



55. [29]. P. ALBIFLORA Prain. 



Dwarf tufted glabrous stems short or 0, canline leaves 0 radical 

 numerous caespitose long petioled oblong-lanceolate pinnatisect seg- 

 ments distant ovate muoronate-dentate, flowers few shortly pedicelled 

 subcapitate or the lower scattered lower alternate upper subopposite, 

 calyx cylindric-campanulato hardly cleft, corolla tube twice as long as 

 calyx lip 3-lobed lobes rounded lateral | exceeding central galea arcuate- 

 ly curved beak conical falcate apex obtuse crenulate not bifid, stamens 

 inserted in middle of tube filaments glabrous. P. alhijlora Prain in Ann. 

 Roy. Bot. Garden, Calcutta, iii ined. P. aspleniifolia tae. albijlora 

 Hook./., Flor. Brit. Ind. iv, 315. 



Easieen HiMALAi'A; Sikkim, (Hooker, Dr. King's Collectors!). 



Stem 0-8 cm., rootstock slender with few ovate scales, bracts \ 

 longer than calyx 3-seot dilated at base, calyx 8-10 mm. 5-toothed teeth 

 lanceolate entire obtuse except upper smallest acute, corolla white tube 

 20-24 mm. uniform throughout beak 3'5 mm., ovary lanceolate stigma 

 subexserted ; capsule not seen. 



56. (29). P. Wallichii Bunge, Bull. So. Acad. St. Petersb. viii, 

 251, {name only), and Walp. Rep. iii, 415. P. asplenifolia, Wall, Cat, 

 41GA, (not of Floerke and excluding specimen B). P aspleniifolia, 

 Hook. /, Flor. Bi-it. Ind. iv, 315, (not of Floerke, and excluding varieties 

 and synonyms). 



This differs from P. alhijlora in haviug both pairs of stamens hir- 

 Btite, in its wide subinflated calyx, its numerous lanceolate rhizome scales 

 and its few radical leaves. Wall. Cat. 4161! is P. Oederi Vahl, vak. 

 heleroglossa. 



67. (30). P. fLAGELLABis Bcnth. ; Hook./. 



58. (31). P. FUiiFnRACisA Wall. ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, t. 3, f. 50. 



59. [31]. P. Pantlisgii Prain. 



Stems single or several from base unbranchod rigid tall leafy 3-5- 

 fariously hairy above, leaves long-petioled furfuraceous beneath broadly 

 ovate pinnatilobed lobes ovate serrate, flowers axillary in dense racemes 

 pedicelled, calys campanulate hirsute, corolla tube widened above as 

 long as calyx, lip 3-lobed margin ciliate lateral lobes ovate thrice as 



