The genus Draba, so abundant in the mountains of North- 

 ern Europe, is even more characteristic of the Andes of tro- 

 pical America, where many species, including most of the 

 finest of the genus, are to be found. 



Descr. A densely hoary-tomentose shrubby-stemmed herb, 

 a foot or so high. Brandies naked and scarred below, clothed 

 above with imbricating obovate or obovate-spathulate leaves. 

 Leaves about half an inch long, obtuse, equally tomentose on 

 both surfaces, obtuse, entire or obtusely toothed. Scapes 

 leafy. Mowers subcorymbose ; lower pedicels slender, aris- 

 ing from the axils of the uppermost leaves. Flowers nearly 

 half an inch diameter. Sepals suberect, oblong. Petals 

 obovate-spathulate. Pod about a third of an inch long, ob- 

 long, acute at both ends, very flat, straight or curved, nar- 

 rowed into an acicular long style. — J. 1). H. 



Fig. 1. Flower. 2. Stamens. 3. Ovary, style, and stigma: — all magnified. 



