and he desires that it should bear the name of Dr. Charles, 
the medical officer in charge of the Field Hospital of the 
Commission. It was found commonly in crevices of lime- 
stone rocks at an altitude of 3000 feet on the north and 
eastern sides of the Kambno Pass, Badghis, in May, 1885, 
and it flowered in Kew in the same month of the following 
year. Boissier describes the flowers of G. tuberosum as 
violet-coloured, which is hardly the case. 
Desor. A perennial, up to eighteen inches high, usually 
four to six. Stems of the larger forms weak and spreading, 
of the smaller stiff and erect. Rootstock of numerous 
superposed tubers, the lowest usually the largest and as 
large as a cherry. tadical leaves none; lowest cauline 
long petioled, upper shorter petioled, uppermost (floral) 
sessile, segments cut chiefly at the tip, more rarely at the 
sides. lowers rose-coloured, varying in size one-half to 
one inch, the petals enlarging till they fall off (Aitchison 
and Hemsley mss.).—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the petals removed (the spurs at the tips of the sepals 
- omitted); 2, stamen ; 3, ovary :—all enlarged. 
