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prsedita, coriacea, 10 cm. longa vel ultra, usque ad ? cm. lata, ovato- 
oblonga vel oblonga, ap ice rotunda! a vel obtusissima, basi rotundata, nec 
euneata margine crenata, supra glabra, infra plus minusve dense pilis rufis 
patent ibus obsita ; nervi utrinque 7 — 8, supra distincti, paululum emi- 
nentes, infra pilosuli distinctiores. Infiorescentiae spiciformes, graciles, 
ex axillis foliorum ortre, ad apicem ramuli 4 --G paniculato-aggregatse, 
dense multiflora}; axis infiorescentiae usque ad 30 cm. longus, dense rufo- 
patenti-pilosulus, basi circiter ad 2 cm. florulis nudus, cseterum interrupte 
vel continuo florulis fasciculatis vestitus ; flores 2 mm. longi, in nodulos 
1 2 — 20-floros aggregati, pedicellis 2 — 3 mm. longis dense pilosulis prarditi. 
Calt/cis tubus turbinatus, 1 mm. longus, pilosulus ; lobi 6 — 7, vix 1 mm. 
longi, oblongo-ovati, albo-ciliati. Petala 6 — 7, 1 mm. longa, oblonga, 
sepalis angustiora, pilosula, albo-ciliata. Stamina petalis isomera et 
opposita, filamentis filiformibus glabris, antheris minimis. Ovarium 
semisuperum, sty 1 is plerumque 4 filiformibus coronatum. Frurtus deest. 
Burma : — Bhamo Division ; “ from a tree outside the Forest Office, 
Bhamo, Upper Burma ” ; altitude 4,000 ft. No. 524, Cubit t in Herb. 
Calc. ! Flowers in March and April. 
Heracleum bi ter na turn W. W. Smith, sp. nov. 
Species ex affinitate Ildtraclei burmanici Kurz ; foliolis et fructu dis- 
tincta. 
Biennis ? Caulis 60 —90 cm. altus, simplex, teres, striatulus, glaber vel 
glabrescens. Folia tenuiter coriaeea, ternatim dissecta ; petiolus 5—30 
cm. longus ; foliola triiobata vel saepius iterum ternatim divisa, lobulis 
secundariis subintegris vel lobulatis ; lobuli variabiles, ovati vel lineari- 
oblongi vel lineari-lanceolati, modo circiter 7 cm. x 5 cm., modo circiter 12 
cm. x 3 cm., crebre irregulariterque serratuli, supra atrovirides, minute 
subscab ride pilosuli, infra pallidiores, praesert m in venulis setosuli; 
petioluli primarii 1 — 10 cm. longi, secundarii 1 — 3 cm. vel absentes ; nervi 
supra in sicco distincti, infra distinctiores, pulchre reticulati. Umbellae 
radii ±12, circiter 5 c^m. longi, in fructu ad 8 cm. elongati, subrigidi ; 
bracteae 0 — 2, lineares, mox caducae ; radii secundarii ± 30, in fructu 2 — 3 
cm. longi, minute pilosuli ; bracteolse 3 — 5, lineares, 1 — 2 cm. long®, subper- 
sistentes. Petala alba. Fructus 1 cm. longus, 7 — 8 mm. latus, obovatus, 
vittis plerumque sex apice ad medium vel ultra pertinentibus notatus ; 
commissura 6-vittata, 
Burma At Maymyo Hill, Tipper Burma, Badal Khan No. 333 in 
Herb. Calc. ! ; in the Southern Shan States, MacGregor without number 
in Herb. Calc. ! 
A species quite unlike any of the Himalayan species ; the fruit has a strong odour 
resembling that of * Gregory Powder.' 
