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SiEKiM: Chakoong, 4—6,000 ft.; Bonher. Kalit; T. Thomson! Yoksum; Clarke.'
Rungbee, Sureil, etc., 5,000—6,000 f t . ; King!
This species -was first described by Sir J , D. Hookor ia 1883 ; the name used
being, however, preoccupied it is necessary to provide another. In August 1875,
a dra-wing was made from a living plant to which drawing, and to the specimens that
correspond, the Msg. name now used was attached. The figure given on PLATE 64 ia a
reproduction of the drawing alluded to.
PLATE 64.—Hoy a obreniformis King. 1, portion of plant from Rungboe, Siikim,—of natural sise ;
2, oalyx-limb ; 3, corolla, from above ; 4, the same, from below ; 5, pollea-maasss; 6, ovarj,—
all enlarged.
G. K.
PLATE 65.
67. CEROPEGtA Bj\.cHiNENSi3 Train in Joiirn. Aa. Soc. Beng. Ixix. 3. 170 (1900).
Natural orHer Asclepia
A slender tuberous-rooted rather extensive climber; leaves membranous, qnite %
both surfaces, dark-green above, pale beneath, elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate,
10—12 cm. long, 4—5 cm. wide, petiole glabrous, 1'25—2 cm. long; peduncles glabrous
2*—2-5 cm. long, 8—12-fld., pedicels glabrous, slender, 1-26—1'5 cm. long; oali/x-teeth
lanceolate; corolla slightly curved, 3 cm. long, base very slightly swollen, tube slightly
dilated at mouth and funnel-shaped, lobes oblong, half the length of the tube, their
margins ciliate with purple hairs in the upper thii'd, tube externally pale yellowishgreen
with fine purple lines on the lower two-thirds and faint purple spots on the
upper third, internally purple with dark close-set lines in the lower two-thirds,
rather bright-green in the upper third, lobes bright-green in lower and pale-yellow
in upper half on both sides ; coronal lobes lanceolate, oiliate, reddish-purple, less than
half as long as clavate straight processes; follxchi 9—10 cm. long, 6 mm. thick, with
discontinuous pale-purple streaks; seeds ovate, compressed, 1 cm. long, 4 mm. wide,
2 mm. thick. C. pubescens Prain in Ecc. Bot. Surv. Ind. i. 252 (1898) not of Wall.
UPPER BUEMA.: Kachin Hills, near Myitkyina ; Prain^s Collector.
A very distinct species, nearest among Indian ones to C. Thwailesii Hook, but
with smaller flowers.
PLATB 65.—Oaropegia kachinensis Prain. 1, portion of flowering stem; 2, tip of youag branoli,—
of natural Size; 3, single flower; 4, corolla, laid open,—o/ natural sine; 5, corona, from aide; 6,
corooa, from above; 7, corona, laid open; 8, pollen masses; 9, oalys, with pistil; 10, pistil, laid
open; 11, ovule,—all enlarged; 12, ripe fruifc; 13, half of a single follicle; 14, placenta with
seeds; 15, ripe seed,—all of naiaral sise. Tbe drawings are from life, from a plant sent from
Myitkyina, which flowered and fruited in the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta.
D. P.
PLATE 66.
68. CoiTLANTHERA FAUCISQCJAMA Clar/ce in Hook. f . Flor. Brit Ini. iv, 94 (1883).
Natural order Gentianace®.
A small glabrous parasitic herb, 6—10 cm. high; stems white, fleshy; leaves
reduced to 1—2 pairs of opposite elliptic-lanceolate scales, 4 mm. long, white;
flowers solitary terminal; calyx deeply 4-lobed, lobes triangular with thickened midrib,
white, 3 mm. long; corolla divided nearly to the base into 4 linear-oblanceolate,
obtuse segments 8 mm. long, dark-blue; stamens 4, filaments linear, flattened, white,
3'5 mm. long, anthers yellow, oblong, innate, dehiscence by a terminal pore; ovary
globose; style cylindric, pinkish-purple, 6 mm. long, stigma small, capitate, yellow.
EASTERN HIMALAYA : Sikkim ; Siny. British Bhutan ; Gammie.
The above description is taken from a manuscript account of the living plant
written by Sir George King and from a drawing, also from life, made at the
same time by his native artist. The elevation given in the Flora of British India
is 0,000 ft. but the original note reads " Sikkim, ? 6,000 feet, J u l y 1875." It has
been carefully searched for since but has never again been found in Sikkim and
has only once been found again at all,—in British Bhutan and at a low elevation.
PLATB 66.—Cotylanthera pauoisquama Clarke. 1, plant,—o/ statural iiti; 2, corolla, laid open ;
ifl: 4, ovary,—a/i slightly enlarged.
Q. E . ; D. P.
GLEABOVIA EUBOEUM
PLATE 67.
Prain in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. Ixix. 2. 489 (1900).
Natural order Orobanchaceae.
A fleshy, leafless herb about 6 in. high, of which only about one-half epieeal ;
root-stock very thick especially where attached to host ; scales ovate, the lower rounded,
the uppermost sometimes 2-fid; flowers paniculate, bracts solitary, 3 cm. long, sheathing,
rounded, pedicel stout, 1 cm. long, bracteoles 2, 2—3 em. long, spathulate, acute,
concave ; tahjx light-red, tubular, somewhat inflated, regularly 5-lobed, 3—3'5 cm. long,
lobes pale; corolla red with darker veins, tube as long as calyx, slightly curved, distinctly
2-lipped, upper Hp of 2- connate lobes, rounded, slightly dentate, lower of 3
narrow, spathulate, subequal lobes, acutely dentate ; stamens 4, geniculate at point of
insertion, anthers elongate, spurred, connective produced in a 2-fid cone, hairy above;
ovary cylindric ; style long, incurved at apex ; stigma of 2 broad semi-orbicular lobes
depressed in the centre; ovary 1-celled ; placenta 2 pairs, central, partly united,
partly free, ovules very many; fruit subglobose; seeds very many, minuto, with loose
reticulate testa.
N.-W. HIMALAYA ; Bodyar, Jaunsar, 8,000 ft., in shady woods of fir and
deodar on roots of wild raspberry yJtubus niveus), very scarce; Gleadoio ^ Gamble J
Duthie 1
PLATE 67.—Gloadovia ruborum Gamble S( Prain. 1, plant, from Bodyar Jaunsar; 2, single flower,
front view, unopened; 3, single flower, from side, fully open; 4, corolla, laid open to show
insertion of stamens; 5, bracteoles; 6, calys, laid open, showing lobes; 7, ovary with stigma;
8, vertical section of the same; 9, transverse section of ovary near middle; 10, the same halfway
between middle and base, showing the placentce diporete; 11, the same, near base, showing the
placentte further separated by a partial false dissepiment, this becomes more marked in fruit;
1?, fruit,—of natural sise; 13, seeds, seen from side and in front; 14, the same, half of the looae
testa cut away; 15, body of seed covered by tegmen; 16, the same in vertical section with
embryo; 17, floral diagram.
The whole of the analyses are from fresh or spirit speoimers.
J . S. G,, D. P