16 MR. G. WATT ON SOME 
tusis planis argute dentatis, costa tenui, scapo 0, floribus solita- 
riis, pedicellis brevibus gracilibus, corolle tubo calyce duplo 
longiore superne infundibulari, lobis profunde bifidis integris v. 
crenulatis. (Tas. XIII. D.) 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA: Kanglanamo Pass, alt. 14,000—16,000 ft., 
G. Watt. 
Habit of P. Hookeri; but the leaves are flat and of a very 
different shape, the calyx has acute teeth, and the corolla-tube is 
not cylindric. Bracts 0, or very slender and placed on the pedicel. 
Corolla bright purple, 1-2 inch diam., glabrous. Ovary obovoid, 
top thickened retuse, stigma capitate. 
Prats XIII. D. fig. 1, plant, nat. size. 2, scape, bracts, and 
calyx ; 3, part of corolla laid open; 4, ovary: all enlarged. 
2. ANDROSACE, L. 
1. A. ROTUNDIFOLIA, Hardwicke (non Wallich, Smith, et De 
Candolle).— A. incisa, Wall. Cat. 616, et in Roxb. Fl. Ind., ed. 
Wall. & Carey, ii. 14, excl. obs. 
“There has been much confusion regarding this plant, through 
Wallich and Sir James Smith having taken for it the little annual 
A. saxifragefolia, Bunge, of the tropical plains of Bengal. This 
is the more extraordinary ; for Hardwicke’s description of his 
rotundifolia is not only accurate, but distinctive as regards the 
toothed involucral bracts ; and he further states that it is a native 
of the highest mountains of Shreenugur, namely of the Kumaon 
Himalaya, where no one who had gathered A. saxifragafolia 
in the tropical plains, as Wallich had, would expect that this last 
should be found."—J. D. H. 
Var. macrocalyx, Watt; laxe pubescens v. villosa, foliorum 
lobulis integerrimis v. crenatis, ealycis lobis corollam longe supe- 
rantibus ovatis v. obovatis argute dentatis.—Kumaon to Kashmir, 
alt. 5000—9500 ft. 
Van. Stracheyi, Watt; glanduloso-pubescens v. glabrata, 
scapis petiolisque gracilibus, foliorum lobulis integerrimis v. cre- 
natis, bracteis elongatis dilatatis apicibus dentatis, calycis lobis 
corollam longe superantibus ovatis acutis integerrimis.—Gar- 
whal, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey & Winterbottom; Kunawur, alt. 
8000-11,000 ft., Munro 4c. (Taz. XV.) 
Var. Thomsoni, Watt; parvula, glanduloso-puberula, scapis 
petiolisque gracilibus, foliis parvis lobulis argute dentatis, floribus 
parvis, corolla calycem excedente.— Western Tibet: Dras river, 
