江西珍珠菜 jiang xi zhen zhu cai

Herbs perennial, to 1 m tall, without creeping rhizomes. Stems erect, to 8 mm in diam. at base, branched in upper part, fulvous pubescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 6--10 mm, pubescent; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 10--16 X 3.5--6 cm, densely puberulous, epunctate, base cuneate-attenuate, apex acuminate; veins 7--9 pairs; veinlets inconspicuous. Racemes to 27 cm in fruit; rachis densely pubescent; bracts linear-lanceolate, 4--5 mm, ciliate. Pedicel 2--2.5 mm, densely pubescent. Calyx lobes elliptic to oblong, ca. 3 mm, glandular ciliate, margin membranous, apex obtuse. Corolla white; tube ca. 1.5 mm; lobes elliptic, ca. 2.5 X 1.2 mm, apex obtuse or acute. Stamens included; filaments adnate to corolla tube, free parts ca. 1 mm; anthers ovate, dorsifixed, ca. 0.7 mm. Ovary glabrous; style ca. 1 mm. Capsule subglobose, ca. as long as persistent calyx.

* In shrubs on low hills; 300--500 m. NE Jiangxi (Yushan Xian).