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TWO BECADS OF NEW 
Tibet: — On Gompa Hill, Gyantse, Capt. H . M . Stewart, I.M.S., 
without number in Herb. Calc. ! Collected 25th June 11)07. 
Allied to Sisymbrium lasiorarpum but differing in boing perennial, in the narrow 
entire leaves, and shorter pods. The stellate pubescence is the same in each. 
Plieraria (lliadristipcllata C. B. Clarke, nomen tantnra in Herb. Calc, 
et Herb Kew. 
Species P. Thomsoni Benth. afFinis sed foliolis sinuato-trilobatis 
oalyce glabro distinguenda. 
Frutex scan dens ; altitudo non nota. Caulis teres, glabrescens. Folia 
3-foliolata, petiolo circiter 6 —7 cm. longo striato dense fulvo-setoso pne- 
dita; stipube sub insertione products, 1 — T25 cm. long;e, coriaceoe, 
lanceolate, distincte 6 — 8*striatai ; foliola ovata, 9 — 15 cm. longa, ad 
9 cm. lata, stipellis ovatis coriaceis striatis praodita, fere ad medium sinu- 
ato-tri-vel bi-lobata ; foliolum medium 2 — 3 cm. potiolulatum, caudato- 
acuminatum, lobulis lateralibus apice rotundatis, foliola lateralia saopius 
bilobata, uno lobo alterum raulto excedente, ambobus acuminatis ; lamina 
supra atroviridis, plus minusve dense fulvo-setulosa, infra pal lidior fulvo- 
setulosa pnesertim in venis, margine fulvo-eiliata ; nervi supra obscuri, in- 
fra eminentes, straminei, bene reticulati. Flores circiter 2 mm. pedicellati, 
pedunculis elongatis axillaril)Us racemosi ; pedunculus 20 — 30 cm. longus, 
fere per longitudinem floriger, in nodis subtumidus, glabrescens ; bractese 
minutm, subulatac ; bracteolae 3 — 5 mm. longm, ovatm, coriaoeie, 7 — 8- 
striatae, virides, persistentes, sub ealyce insertae. Culyrti — 8 mm. longus, 
(petaloideus purpureus teste collectore) glabor vel sul glaber, in lobos 
acutos vel subacutos ad medium fissus. Corolla 10 — 13 mm. longa, atro- 
purpurea. Stamen vexillare fere omnino solutum. Ovarium sessile, stylo 
filiformi imberbi praeditum. Legumen (vix maturum) ad 7 cm. longum, 
fere 1 cm. latum, compressum, membranaceum, setis longis fulvis dense 
obsitum, 9 — 12-seminiferum. 
Sikkim Himalaya At Yoksun, at an elevation of 5,000 ft., 
C. B, Clarke No. 25157 in the herbaria of Kew and Calcutta ! 
Homalium bhamoense Cubitt et Smith, sp. nov. 
Species affinis Homalio zci/lanico Benth.; foliis oblongo-ovatis vel 
oblongis apice basique rotundatis infra plus minus rufo-pilosulis con- 
spicua. 
Arbor magna. Hamuli superiores striati, rufo-pilosuli, hnticellis 
elongatis albidis notati. Folia alterna, petiolo 8—10 mm. longo pilosulo 
