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NEW BOMBAY SPECIES. 125 centiae interpetiolares, cymosae, aut distanter aut dense floriferae. Pedunculi 6 cm excedentes. Pedicilli aut longi aut perbreves. Bractecz et bracteolac peranguste lineares, ad 5 cm longae. Calyx ad basim partitus ; segmenta bracteis et bracteolis similia, semper corollam longe excedentia. Corolla 4 cm longa, in partibus apicali basalique inflatis 11 mm, in tuba 8 mm lata, colore (ut ex siiccoexemplo videatur purpurea, lineis maculisque luteis veriegata. Coronae forma in exsiccato exemplo haud determinari potuit. Folliculi perangusti, 90 x 3 mm, cinerei, tenuiter striati ; semina 8x3 mm ; coma 20 mm, copiosum, molle.

Apud Sulgeri, in Canara, in Provincia Bombaiensi, ad alt. 500 ped angl., et pluv. circa 200 dig. angl. Coll. T. R. D. Bell, CLE. mense Augusto, id est in medio tempore pluviali, 1918 ; in herb. Sedg. et Bell. 4252.

A curious species, at once recognisable by the enormously long and fine calyx segments, bracts and bracteoles. The corolla is in general shape typical of the genus, the segments of the swollen apical portion meeting at their tips. The corona was quite indistinguishable in soaked out flowers.

Boucerosia truncato-coronata L. J. Sedgwick^ Sp. nova. Planta carnosa, glabra, diffusa, ramis numerosis ad 15 cm altis. Radices crassae, succulentae. Rami 6 mm lati, supra haud attenu- ate quadrangulares, faciebus alte sulcatis, et in angulorum tuber- culis folia minutissima ovata ferentes. Inflorescentiae terniinales, exacte unbellatae, (in exemplo viso) 13-florae. Bracteae 2-5 mm longae, lineares. Pedicilli 17 mm longi. Calyx ad basim partitus ; segmenta 4 mm longa, linearia, acuta. Corolla tuba 6x6 mm, camp- anulata ; limbo in aestivaiione 5 segmentis triangularibus, valvatis exacte pentagono et in summo piano, 8"5 mm Iato ; (segmenta in anthesi utrum erecta sint an patentia haud satis notum, sed, at videatur, erecta) ; extus viridis, sed in limbo paullo purpureo-maculata, intus purpurea, vel prope nigra, fossiculis numerosissimis, luteis, pellucidis, linearibus, quae in cincturis interruptis dispositae sunt, insignata ; inter segmenta in sinibus paucas particulas clavatas ferens. Androecium cum gynoecio parvulum, in corollae basi situm. Anther ae quadrato-oblongae, obtusae, supra stigmatis discum incurvatae, approximatae sed non contiguae, in dorso sulcatae, colore luteae. Pollinia in cellulis solitaria, luteorubra, compressa, erecta, sed latere caudiculis minutis ad translatorem erectum purpureum affixa. Corona staminalis, duplex, crassa, ut corollae interior pars colorata ; lobi exteriores 5, truncati, sed in utroque latere minutissime cornuti ; interiores ligulati, elongati, adscendentes et in antherarum dorsales sulcos appressi. Folliculi haud visi.