Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2003
Seven new species and one new subspecies in Scrophulariaceaefrom the Flora of Bhutan area are described. They include two newspecies of Euphrasia, E. chumbica R.R. Mill sp. nov. (Chumbi, Sikkim and C Bhutan) and E. melanosticta R.R. Mill sp. nov. (Sikkim, N Bhutan); one new species of Kickxia, K. papillosa R.R. Mill sp. nov. (E Bhutan); one new speciesof Lagotis, L. chumbica R.R. Mill sp. nov. (Chumbi);one new species of Neopicrorhiza, N. minima R.R. Mill sp. nov. (N Bhutan); two new species of Scrophularia, S.cooperi R.R. Mill sp. nov. (C Bhutan) and S. subsessilis R.R. Mill sp. nov. (N Bhutan); and a new subspecies of Ellisiophyllum pinnatum (Wall.) Makino, subsp. bhutanense R.R.Mill subsp. nov. (Bhutan). Alectra avensis (Benth.) Merr., Bacopa monnieri (L.) Pennell, Scrophularia himalayensis Royle, Striga asiatica (L.) Kuntze and S. densiflora Benth. are allrecorded from Bhutan and/or Sikkim for the first time. A brief argument isgiven for the continued use of hyphenated fel-terrae as the correctspelling of that epithet in Picria.