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flowers that were too young having been examined, have been un¬ 
fortunately described by Hasskarl as two-celled with parallel cells ; it 
is doubtless this unhappy misapprehension that has led both De 
Candolle and Miquel to look upon Anthocoma as a Gomphostemma, 
and that has obscured so completely and so long the true affinities of 
Zollinger’s plant. 
From the Journal, Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol.LXIl, Part II, No. i, 1893 . 
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Two species of VQ 6 .\cn\ 2 iX\s.—By D. Prain. 
(With Plates I and II.) 
[ Received March 9th—Read April 5th. ] 
In 1889 (Journ. As. Soe. Beng. Iviii, pt. 2 , p. 255 ) the writer had the 
honour to communicate to the Society descriptions of a number of new 
Indian species of this genus. Since then a considerable number of new 
species have been reported from China and Tibet and have been described 
in various periodicals by Messrs Maxiraowicz, Hemsley and Franchet, and 
by the writer. Now, another new Indian species has been reported; of 
this a description is given below and the present opportunity is taken 
of describing an allied new. species froiii Szechuen. 
I. Pedicularis diffusa Prain, sp. nov. (Pl. I.) 
Elata simplex vel e collo diffuse ramosa, radice debili ramosa collo 
esquamato, caulibus gracilibus simplicibus, foliis radicalibus longe petio- 
latis mox evanescentibus caulinis 4 -natim verticillatis laminis gla- 
brescentibus ovato-oblongis pinnatisectis, segmentis 5 - 8 -jugis ob- 
longis obtusis inciso-serratis ; floribus verticillatis verticillis numerosis 
inter se remotis, bracteis foliaceis oblongo-ovatis petiolatis pinnati- 
fidis et inciso-serratis ; calycis breve pedicellati campanulati mem- 
branacei inflati totius reticulati antice vix fissi dentibus majusculis 
inaequilatis anticis et lateralibus ovatis inciso-serratis illis duplo his 
4 -plo summo deltoideo integro latioribus j corollae roseae tubo sursum 
ampliato calyce duplo longiore basi infracto, labio 3 -lobo lobis oblongo- 
ovatis margine sinuatis lateralibus medio dimidio majoribus, galea 
leviter arcuata tubo subcontinua apice subincurva erostri; staminibus 
ex adverse summi ovarii insertis filamentis anticis superne hirsutis ; 
ovario ovoideo stigmate parum exserto, capsula anguste lanceolata apice 
acuta calyce duplo longiore, seminibus ovoideis testa nigrescente minute 
reticulatis. 
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