tliia opiaion as to its affinities and the writer would therofore wish the name to be
cifced on Kuntze's authority rather than on his own.
PtATB 73.—Pillomis oblongifolia KunUe. flower ; 2, oalys, laid opea ; 3, half of corolla, ehowing
staininal insertion and annuloB; 4, ovary and style—o/ natural siae; 5, lower lip, inside x 2; 6,
upper lip, a. inside, b. baok x 2 ; 7, anthers x 4. Flowering branch from Pangerango, in Western
Java, 4,500 feet elevation.
D. P.
P L A T E 74.
81. PHLOMIS RDG08A BetiiL in Wall. Cat. 2067 (ISZSI, in PI. As. Ear. i. 63
(1830), in Lab. Qm. ^ Sp. 634 (1834) and in DC. Prodr. xii. 545 (1848).
Natural order Labiatse.
Shrubby; stems 60—90 cm. high, stout or slender, minutely hirsute with deflexed
hairs ; leaves elliptic or oblong-ovate, acuminate, shortly toothed, base cuneate or truncate,
glabrous or with minute scattered hairs above, 15—20 cni. long, 8—10 cm. wide,
petioles slender, 5—10 cm. long; flowers in snaall, distant or crowded whorls, often many
below the leaves, 1-5—3 cm. in diam. ; bracts filiform, glabrescent, rather shorter than
calyx ; calyx obcoaic-campanulate, tube slightly curved forward, glabrous above, usually
hispid towards the base, coriaceous below, thickly membranous above, 1-25 cm. long,
teeth slender, lanceolate from a triangular membranous base, two-thirds the length of
the tube ; corolU light-yellow or white, 2'5 em. long, pubescent externally on buth
lips, upper lip narrow, rounded at apex, half as long as tube, lower lip with oblong
midlobe and lanceolate lateral lobes, aunulus distinct; stamens without appendages on
posterior pair; style arms sub-equal; nutlets 6 mm. Icing, obovoid, acute below aud
triquetrous, rounded above, glabrous. Walp. Rep. iii. Ö«9 (1845'); Hook. f . Fltrr. Brit.
Ind. Ì7. 693 (1885); Prain, Ann. Uoy. Bot. Gard., Calcutta, iii. 231 (1891). Gomphostemma
meaibranifolium Miq. Flor. Ind. Bat. ii. 988 (1856).
EASTERN HIMALAYA: Sikkim; Kurs! King! Clarke! Bootan ; Oummins! Mishmi;
Griffith ! Kbasia ; Wallich I Clarke ! Hooker ^ Thomion ! MALAYA : Perak ; Kunstler I
Scortechini! Java; Rorsfield I Philippines; S. Vidal !
This species is so different in appearance and so distinct in its characters from
every species of Phlomis except P, oblongifolia and a third Malayan species ( P . jauanica),
which is as yet somewhat incompletely known, that it would probably be advisable to
treat them as three representatives of a genus distinct from Phlomis. They must at
least be accommodated in a distinct section, which may be defined as follows :—
PAEAPHLOMIS Prain; oorollie galea erecta extus barbata, intus glaberrima, stamiaibus
postiois inappendiculatis.
If the generic rank to which the group is almost certainly entitled be recognised,
the constituent species will be known as Paraphlomla oblongifolia, Paraphlomis rugosa
a n i Paraphhmis javanica.
PLATE 74.—Phlomis nigoaa Bmlh. 1, flower; 2, calyx, laid open; 3, half of corolla, showing
"tamlnal insertion and annul as,—all of natural size ; 4, lower lip x 2 ; 5, upper lip, a. inside, o. bacs
)c 2, 6, antbers x 4 ; 7, ovary and stylo,—of natural aite; 8, nutlets, a. inner faoe, b. baok view.—
of natural I'se; 9, seed, and 10, embryo—o/ naturai tise. Flowering branch from a S i t im example.
2 P.
PLATE 75.
82. EDEYSOLEN GUACILIS Prain in Sc. Mem. Med. O f f . India xi. 4 i
Natural order Labiatae.
A slender scandeat shrub with cylindric slender branches, puherulous with clososet,
adpressed, raflexed haii-s; leaves ovate-acute, their bases cuneate entire tapering into
a short petiole 2—5 mm. long, their anterior two-thirds rather coarsely toothed with
5—8 serrations on each side, membranous, pale-green, above with at first a sparse
adpressed pubescecice at length glabrescent, below puberulous on the midrib and mainnerves
elsewhere glabrous, secondary nerves 3—4 pairs ; flowers small, condensed in
axillary and terminal spikes 2 5—4 cm. long, 1 cm. across; bracts hardly exceeding
the 1'5 mm. long pedicels; cal^x tubular-campanulate, 4 mm. long, lO-nerved, 5-toothed,
t h e two anterior teeth rather exceeding the other three but hardly 2-lipped, glabrous
within, sparsely puberulous externally, in fruit the teeth erect and the tube slightly
urceolate; corolla 7 mm. long, tube exserted, annulate within, below the anruUis slender
and straight, gibbous in front above the annulus; the limb 2-lÍpped, the upper lip erect
slightly concave and retuse at the tip, the lower longer spreading 3-6d, the side lobes
much smaller than the median; stamens 4, didynamous, the lower longer, all ascending
under the upper lip and all exserted. the anthers ovate-reniform, 1-locular, those of
the upper stamens rather smaller than the others, the filaments puberulous with
whitish hairs; disc uniform; oearg substipitate, style subequally 2-fid, lobes acute;
nutie/s (only seen young) smooth towards periphery of pistil, papillose-glandular on their
upper and mesial aspects.
KACHIN HILLS: Sadon; Pram's Collector!
This plant forms the type of a genus that it has seemed to the writer best to
place tentatively among the Prasiew near Gomphoatemma. The anthers appear to bo
1-celled from a very early stage. From its unfortunately not yet having betn collected
in ripe fruit it is not possible to be absolutely certain as to its tribal position. The
writer's difficulty in the matter led to his submitting a specimen of the plant, with a
copy of the description, to Mr. Briquet of Geneva, whose masterly account of the
natural order Labiatce in Engler's Naturlichen Pfiansenfamilien marks him as the greatest
living authority on this difficult family. Mr. briquet has very courteously examined the
specimen and has written the following valuable note on the p l a n t :—
I the Euryaolcn X have examined the specimen you sent to me closely and quite
agree with you that it cannot be placed in any of the geoera known up to date.
" I am very puzzloi as to its place and must frankly confess that I do not dare to place it
precisely in any of the tribes without knowing the ripe frait. The nutlets are too young to allow
saying if the fruit will be partite or only 4.1obed, viz :~if the surface of insertion will be basilar
and small or lateral and larger. They are too young also to allow saying if the pericarp will be thick
and more or less fleshy, or thin and dry. If we bad a dry (oftea thick) pericarp with lateral
surface of insertion we should have to do with a genus of In that tribe we have
plants with l-celled anthers, looking exactly like the antbers of your specimen. These are, without
donbt, due to the fusion of the two cells. I'his manner of speaking has a purely phylogenetio
meaning, for in many iastanaes the cells appear coherent from the beginning 1 The way in which
the anther rests on the top of the filament (in the middle instead of the top of the anther) is very
decisive in this respect. Among the AJuge<B your genua would be readily distinguished by tie
organisation of the corolla and of the androecium.