contract(£. Stamina numerosa, glabra^ brevissimuy patenti-adscendentia. 

 Pistilla copiomsima, acuta, supernh glahra, villosa. Caryopsides minuter, 

 compressce, capillaceo-pedicellatcey muticce, lanugine longd, nived obtectce 

 glooumque formentes album magnitudinis cerasL — Wallich. 



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" This is one of the commonest, as well as most orna- 

 mental flower-plants in Nipal, where it grows in all the 

 forests of the great valley and the surrounding mountains, 

 delighting in the most shady, retired, and moist situations, 

 in the vicinity of rills and torrents. It has also been found 

 in Kamoon, in similar places, by Robert Blinkworth, one 

 of the collectors for the Honourable Company's Botanic 

 Garden, at Calcutta. It blossoms in the months of August 

 and September, and ripens its fruit soon after. I have 

 never been able to induce it to grow large, much less to 

 flower, in the Calcutta Garden ; a circumstance by no means 

 to be wondered at, considering the high elevations of which 

 it is a native, and the extreme difficulties which we have 

 in Lower India in reducing the temperature of the air. 

 Indeed, the plant is altogether extra-tropical ; and my 

 people brought it to me from towards Gossain-Than, in the 

 Himalaya. I had the satisfaction to see this charming 

 plant in flower at Montreal, in Kent, the seat of the Earl 

 Amherst, whither it had been brought from India by 

 the Countess Amherst, whose indefatigable and successful 

 exertions in her favourite pursuit of Horticulture and Botany, 

 are as far beyond my feeble praise, as they exceed any 

 other instance I have ever witnessed." 



For the foregoing remarks we are indebted to Dr. Wal- 

 lich ; for the specimen from which our drawing was made, 

 we have to express our acknowledgments to the Countess 



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