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It should be mentioned that the Hupeh specimens of C. palmetto, 
have smaller flowers than the type from Sikkim, but this is the only 
difference observable. The follicles of Hupeh palmata (Wilson 
2(578) are broad and subtruncate above; those of the Sikkim palmata 
are still unknown : should they prove to be different, the Hupeh 
palmata will have to be separated, but pending their discovery there 
is no adequate ground for according it even varietal status. 
Calathooes palmata Hook. f. et Thoms. FI. Ind. 40 (1855) ; 
FI. Brit. Ind. i. 22 ; Oliv. in Hook. lc. FI. t. 1935, quoad specimen 
floriterum. 
llab. Sikkim Himalaya, 10,000 ft., J. D. Hooker. Hupeh : 
Hsingshan, 9000 ft., Henry 6977 (fl.) ; western Hupeh, Wilson 
2048, 2673. 
C. oxycarpa Sprague in Kew Bull. 1919, 403.— C. palmata Oliv. 
in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1935, quoad specimen fructiferum. 
Hab. Hupeh: Hsingshan, Henry 6977 (fruct.); Mt. Wa, 
9500 ft., Wilson 3056. Szechuan : Tehen-keou-tin ; Heou-pin, 
7200 ft., Forges 924 (a depauperate state). 
Hooker and Thomson described the flowers of C. palmata as 
yellow ; those of C. oxycarpa , according to Wilson, are white, tinged 
with blue. 
A NEW VERONICA FROM BULGARIA. 
By Prof. N. Stojanoff and B. Stefanoff, 
Sofia University. 
«/ 
While revising the material collected by us in the Strandja range, 
in south-eastern Bulgaria, we became particularly interested in a 
species of Veronica , which was different from any known to us in the 
flora of Europe and Western Asia. Owing to the absence of a large 
general herbarium, we sent a specimen to Mr. W. B. Turrill for com¬ 
parison with the collections in the Kew Herbarium. Mr. Turrill 
replied that he had been unable to match the plant, and confirmed our 
opinion that it represented a new and undescribed species. We have 
therefore drawn up the following account of the plant, which we 
have named after Mr. Turrill :— 
Veronica Turrilliana, spec. nov. Sect. Ohamcedrys Griseb. Spicil. 
Fl. Rum. ii. 28 ; affinis V. Teucrium L. et V. prostrata L. 
Suffrutescens, caulibus numerosis ascendentibus cylindricis ad 
2 5 dpi. altis hevibus bifariam sparse et breviter puberulis. Folia 
ovata vel oblongo-elliptica, basi sensim rotundato-attenuata et breviter 
cuneato-petiolata, circiter 8-12 mm. longa et 6-8 mm. lata, sub- 
coriacea, persistentia, glabra. Racema ex foliorum supremorum axillis 
2-4, multiflora, pedicellis vix puberulis calyce aequantibus vel longi- 
oribus; bracteae pedicellis aequilongae vel sublongiores. Calycis 
laciniae 5, lanceolatae, valde inaequales, glabrae. Corolla IT cm. 
diametro, lilacino-ccerulea, in fauce lurida et obsolete striata, calyce 
triplo vel quadruplo longiora. Capsula compressa, apice rotundata, 
basi rotundata et sinuata, 4 mm. longa et lata, calyce aequilonga vel 
vix longiora. Floret Majo. 
