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slightly exceeding the calyx, light blue in colour. A further point of 
distinction is its tetramery. In all the Tibet and Chumbi specimens 
dissected, the calyx and corolla were four-lobed ; in the fruiting Sikkim 
specimens the ovary is usually four-valved, and the calyx with four large 
lobes and a small one. Its distribution is about as extensive as is known 
for any Wallanchoon, Nepal, 13,000 ft,., Kup- 
Chee, Chumbi, No. 182 King^s Collector ! Sikkim, 13,000 ft., Pantling / 
Sebu Valley, Sikkim, 15,500 ft.. No. 1155 Gammie ! Numa, Tibet, 
Stewart ! Phembu La, 10 miles N. of Llasa, Walton ! 
var. hispidus Franch. Nepal, No. 175 Scully ! Tongolo, Eastern 
Tibet, No. 672 Soulie ! West Szechuen, China, No. 454 Pratt ! 
Order— VACCIMIACEiE. 
Pentapterygium sihkimense W. W. Smith, sp. nov. 
Species Pentapterygio serpenti Klotzsch, affinis; sed foliis late 
ellipticis et floribus pai-vis facile distinguitur. 
Prutex epiphyticus ; habitus P. serpentis. Caulis vagans, ramosus, 
pendulus vel serpens, strigoso-hispidus, laxe foliosus. Folia subsessilia, 
2-3 cm. longa, 1’5 cm. lata, elliptica, apice rotundatavel obtusa, mucrone 
brevi, basi obtuso-cuneata, subintegra, apice serrulata, nervis 8-10 
paribus supra dare reticulatis. Flores parvi, solitarii vel 2-3 fascicu- 
lati ; pedicelli 5 mm. longi, glandulo-pubescentes. Calyx 5 mm. longus, 
ad medium fissus, turbinato-globosus, 5-pterus, subglaber, lobis acutis 
triangularibus persistentibus. Corolla 1 cm. longa, tubulosa, 5-gona^ 
ad sextam partem lobata, glabra, rubra ; lobi sublineares, acuti. Stamina 
10, inclusa, corollse tubo fere sequilonga, filamentis brevissimis liberis ; 
antherse cohserentes, loculis muticis in tubulos tenuissimos strictos 
loculis paulo longiores rimis elongatis dehiscentes productis. Ovarium 
5-loculare, stylo filiformi, stigmate truncatulo. Fructus immaturus 
carnosus ad 7 mm. longus. 
Sikkim: — Lachung Valley, 7,500 ft.. No. 1216, Gammie I Tonglo, 
7,500 ft., Rogers ! 
Order — PRIMULACEiEt 
Primula Whitei W. W. Smith, sp. nov. 
Hsec species ad Petiolares Pax, sine dubio pertinet; verisimiliter 
affiois Primulcc odontocalyci (Franch.) Pax, ex China centrali ((juss 
