OF SOUTH-EAST SIKKIM. 
405 
239, Strol)iIaiithes Bl. 
629. Strobilantlics divaricatus T. And. 
Phadonchen, 7 — 9,000 ft. 
630. Strobilanthes Wallichii Nees 
Phadonchen, Ningbil, 8—11,000 ft., No. 4143. 
LXVII,— SELAGI^^E.E, 
240. Lagotis Gjnrtn. 
631. Lagotis Clarkei Hook. f. 
Nathui La^ Tosa, Yakla, 14—15,000 ft., Nos. 3457, 3947, 4048, 
4097. 
Ag this species was described from imperfect material I add the following notes taken 
in the field. Rootstock stout, stems up to 15 cm., flexuou8,|asccnding, leafy towards the 
apex ; leaves elliptic-ovate, acute or obtuse, irregularly toothed ; spike up to 6 cm ; 
bracts toothed or entire, lower 1*6 cm., upper 6 — 7 cm.; calyx shorter than the lower 
bracts, longer than the upper ones, normally 1 cm. long, spathaceous, hooded, enclosing 
the corolla } nerves reticulate, the two main ones convergent towards apex but not always 
meeting j the spathe-like calyx is oblong, with one side cut to one half, but with no other 
indication of lobing, greenish ; corolla when open only 2 mm. shorter than calyx, greenish# 
translucent, oblong, cleft to 2-lipped, lower lip recurved, broad, rounded, not lobed, 
upper lip scarcely dilated at th^^lightly hooded tip ; filaments adnate to margins of upper 
lip I style as long as the stamens ; stigma very slightly bifid. 
632. Lagotis crassifolia Prain 
Tanka La, GammieX 
633. Lagotis glauca Gsertn. var. sikkiinensis 
Changu, Nathui La, Gnatong, 12—14,000 ft.. Nos. 3185, 3241, 
4314 . 
The following notes are taken from my field-book. Rootstock 2 — 3 cm. thick with 
numerous fleshy root fibres ; stem 36 — 45 cm. long, suberect, 1 cm. thick, much compressed, 
naked below the middle ; radical leaves numei-ous, 10 — 15, large and fleshy, petiole up to 
15 cm. long, 10—12 mm. broad ; lamina up to 7 cm. long, elliptic-obovate, coarsely toothed 
subobtuse ; cauline leaves narrowly ov.ate, up to 9 cm. long, 4 cm. broad, remotely dentate, 
sessile, semi-amplexicaul ; nerves slender, translucent, decumbent ; spike up to 16 cm.; 
bracts 1 — 1*25 cm., ovate, subacute, toothed, slightly longer than the calyx and about 
equalling the corolla tube, glaucous ; calyx a glaucous translucent spathe cleft to the 
base in front, rounded at the apex where it is slightly erose, even minutely fimbriate, with 
two non-convergiug greenish nerves ; the corolla lobe and a small part of the tubes 
protrude from the cleft of the spathe, corolla bluish-white, oblong-tubular, 12—13 min. 
long, 2 — 3 mm. broad, two-lipped ; lips 2 — 3 mm. long, upper if anything slightly longer, 
ovaterrounded entire apex, lower cleft to the base 1 into linear lobes; the lobes at first whitieb, 
soon fading to a dirty brown in the open flower ; anthers, with very short filaments in the 
sinuses between upper and lower lobes ; a green gland, larger than the inmiature ovary on 
the anterior side of the ovary; stigma capitate, obscuredy cleft; style included. The 
larger specimens seem to me to bridge tb(! gap between this species and L. tpectahilia 
Kurz which both Hooker and Prain regard as a doubtfully valid species. See Joam. As, 
Soc. Beng., Ixv, 65. 
