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An acaulescent succulent herb, the leaves all radical, subrosu- 
late, when fresh thick, fleshy, brittle, when dry membranaceous, 
olivaceous, in general oblong-obovate, apex rounded, base decur- 
rent-acuminate and usually distinctly inequilateral, both surfaces 
rather sparingly pubescent with short hairs, the margins some- 
what undulate-dentate ; lateral nerves 5 or 6 on each side of the 
midrib, rather distinct; petioles up to 4 cm in length. Scapes 
several, usually trichotomously branched, slender, each several- 
flowered, distinctly pubescent, pendulous, up to 20 cm in length ; 
bracts small, oblong, pubescent, about 4 mm long ; pedicels 
slender, rather densely pubescent, 4 to 8 cm long. Flowers 
campanulate, blue-purple, 3 to 3.5 cm long. Calyx-lobes lanceo- 
late, free to the base, pubescent, about 7 mm long. Corolla-tube 
terete, not gibbous, gradually widened upward, 3 to 3.5 cm long, 
the limb somewhat bilabiate, the five lobes all subequal, rounded. 
Stamens 2 only; filaments glabrous; anthers about 3.5 mm wide 
and 1.5 mm long, united. Ovary and style pubescent; stigma 
liguliform, entire, about 2 mm long, oblique, as persistent on 
immature fruits often slightly reflexed. Capsules linear-lanceo- 
late, pubescent, about 2 cm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10692 
(type), Levine 1588, August 16, 1917, gregarious on very damp cliffs in 
deep, shaded ravines; altitude about 1,000 meters. 
This species is apparently confined to its peculiar habitat, and was 
observed in but a Tew restricted places, although where found it was 
gregarious and abundant. It grows on perpendicular cliffs, and its in- 
florescences are pendulous; when occurring in mass and in full anthesis, 
it is strikingly ornamental. It does not conform with the descriptions of 
any of the known Chinese species of Chirita or Didymocarpus, and might 
with almost equal propriety be placed in Chirita as in Didymocarpus. I 
have placed it in the latter genus as the liguliform stigma is not at all 
lobed. 
SCROPHULARIACEAE 
BRANDI SI A Hooker f. & Thomson 
BRAN DISI A SWINGLEI sp. nov. 
Suffrutex erectus, circiter 1 m altus, ramulis et subtus foliis 
et floribusque dense cinereo-pubescentibus, indumento stellato; 
foliis oppositis, oblongo-ovatis, membranaceis, usque ad 8 cm 
longis, acutis vel leviter acuminatis, basi rotundatis, margine 
denticulatis vel subintegris, supra in siccitate nigrescentibus, 
subglabris, subtus pallidis ; floribus axillaribus, solitariis vel binis, 
pedicellatis, circiter 2.3 cm longis, flavidis. 
A suffrutescent erect plant, about 1 m high, the younger parts 
