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Leucas angustissima L. J. Sedgwick, Sp. nova. Herba saxicola, erecta, ad 30 cm alta. Radix lignosa. Gaulis lignosus, a basi ramosus. Rami secundi, virgati, angusti, quadrangulares et quadri-sulcati. Folia perangusfca, linearia, ad 30 x 3 mm, marginibus revolutis. Verticelli omnes axillares, paucitiori. Pedicilli perbreves. Calyx 6 mm longus, sensim curvatus, bucciniformis, extus minutissime hispidus, intus glaber ; os obliquum, nudum, supra productum ; dens superior sublongus, ceteri perbreves. Corolla pro rata magna, conspicua; tuba 5 mm longa ; labium superius 3 mm longum et latum, villo albo indu- tum ; labium inferius deflexum, patens, conspicuum, 9 mm longum, infra puberulum ; lobi 3 ; lobi laterales angusti, decurvati; lobus medius 7 mm latus, emarginatus.

In patentibus saxis, prope Gairsoppa Falls in Canara in provincia Bombaiensi, ad alt. circa 1500 ped. angl. et pluv. circa 100 digit, angl., Sedg. et Bell 7234, Nov. 1919 ; et apud Siddbapur in eadem regione .Sedg. et Bell 7255, eodem mense ; cotypi in Herb. Coll. Sanct. Xavie- ri, Bombay. Invenit quoque in Herb. Talbot, 3740 a Siddhapur.

A very distinct species, witb tbe habit and conspicuous flowers of L. longifolia Bentb., but a very different calyx, resembling a small form of the calyx of L. linijolia Spreng.

Christisonia flammea L. J. Sedgwick, Sp. nova. Eerba humilis, in Strobilanthis radicibus parasitica. Caules aggregati, demum erecti, tantundem elongati ut flores e tellure emergant, 4 mm lati. Squamulae 5x4 mm, distantes, ovatae, obtusae. Flores in racemis congestis, corymbiformibus ; bracteae squamulis assimiles, sed majores : bracteolae 2. Pedicilli 0, vel ad 2 cm longi. Calyx rufo-brunneus, dense et conspicue puberulus ; tuba ad 2 cm longa, 1 cm lata, pentagona ; lobi 5, aequales, triangulares, 5 mm longi. Corolla aureo-lutea, ad 5 cm longa, bucciniformis ; tuba a medio inflata, extus dense pu- berula ; lobi 5, aequales, curtissimi, perobtusi, demum patentes. Stamina corollae dimidio aequantia, didynama ; filamentaalba, puberula ; antherae conniventes, crescentiformes ; loculus superior apice infra porum subulatus ; loculus inferior sterilis, commatiformis. Stylus stamina longe excedens, albus, glaber; stigma bilobum ; lobi crassi, rotundati. Ovarium biloculare. Capsula globosa, 12 mm lata, styli basi persistonte apiculata. (See Fig. p. 127.)