Herbarium catalogue

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Oe § #3 ge : é ae Rh. lanigerum, Tage. : j site 2203 89FuUR é Me Habit. A small gnarled tree. Branches below inflorescences cee very stout, as much as iocm. or more in diameter. Pr ae nee a a Se ee ein a ah ae Leaves. Lamina oblong-lanceolate or oblong-oblanceolate, 18-22 cm. long, 5-7 om. broads; apex acuminate, cuspidate; margin entire; base obtuse to cuneate; uppe surface slightly rugulose, at maturity glabrous except in the deenl y grooved midrib which is lined with vestiges of a juvenile tomentum, primary veins 20-25 on each side deeply impressed; under surface clad with a bistrote woolly felt at first white, turning grey ultimately blackish, composed of an upper layer of long much branched narrow funnel-shaped hairs over a thin under stratum of rosette hairs; midrib very prominent, almost bare, primary veins raised and more or less clothed with indumentum like the rest of the leaf undersurface. Petiole 1.5-2 om. long, grooved above, rounded below, densely grey tomentose. inflorescence: a congested racemose truss of 20-25 flowers; rhachis stout,about 2.6 om. long, clad with a dense fawn or ferruginous tomentums; bracts not seenj; bracteoles about 1 cm. long, filamentous, clothed with adpressed silky hairs, Pedicels stout, 1-1.5 cm. long, densely tomentose with greyish much branched hairs. Calyx about 2 mm. long, fleshy with 5 triangular marginal teeth. copyright reserved Corolla broadly campanulate, 4-5 cm. long, rose=purple, tube fleshy with 5 marked basal nectar pouches; lobes 5, 1.5 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, deeply notched. Stamens 10, (fide Ward). Pistil about 3 cm. longs ovary conoid, grooved, clad with a - Were 2 ‘ 7 ne . dense fawn or greyish tomentose of fasiately branched hairs, 6 chambered, eglandular; style glabrous; stigma small. Capsule Habitat. “Jab Delei valley. In middle and upper forests at 10-11000 ft. altitude. In its 5-partite corolla and its 10 stamens this is a distinctly aberrant member of the Falcoheri Series. In these characters however it is equally alien in the Grande Series - the alliance suggested by Ward from the appearance of the plant in the field. The hairs of the leaf indumentum are not markedly cup-shaped bub are long narrow funnels resembling those of Rh. preptum. The distinctly acuminate leaf apex is a characteristic feature which distinguishes it at once (flower characters apart) from Rh. preptum with its somewhat similar indumentum.