tainly not surpassed in any collection in Britain. Among 
these, the rare species now described forms a dense bush. 
It was obtained from Messrs. Loppices five years ago, and 
_ during each of the last three years it has flowered in the open 
border abundantly in April, and partially in August. It isa 
native of the Himalaya mountains, and extends, as we are 
informed by Dr. Royzz, along the range from Nepal to 
Cashmere, never descending lower than 9,000 feet above 
the level of the sea, but rising to an elevation exceeding 
14,000 feet, with the last remains of woody plants. 
De Canpotte notices the conflicting statements, regard- 
ing the number of stamens, by different authors. The 
number may vary, but I am quite certain that in the blos- 
soms of the individual which I examined there were uni- 
formly five. The native specimens which I possess from Dr. 
Watticu have no perfect flowers. The cultivated plant 
differs from Dr. Royze’s figure in being of a much paler 
colour, in the segments of the corolla being far broader, 
overlapping, and undulate, and in the bracts being rusty 
rather than yellow. 
Descr. Shrub (in the specimen described fifteen inches high, eigh- 
teen inches in diameter) much branched, compact; branches pubes- 
cent, and covered with brown scales. Leaves (an inch and a half long, 
half an inch broad) collected towards the extremities of the branches, 
petiolate, elliptical, entire, coriaceous, evergreen, mucronulate, densely 
covered below with scales, which, at first, are pale green, but soon 
become rusty, glabrous, dark green and shining above, having a strong 
middle rib, and a few oblique, sparingly reticulated veins channelled 
above ; petiole erect, rounded on the back, channelled in front, scaly 
like the branches. Capitula terminal, encased by a few large, ovate, 
keeled, rusty, ciliated bracts, the dilated petioles of leaves, of which the 
diminished laminz are seen upon the apices of some of the leaves ; 
similar bracts, but rather smaller and less keeled, are repeated on the 
outside of each pedicellate flower in the capitulum, and on each side at 
the base of every pedicel there is an elongated, narrow, spathulate bract, 
stretching a little way beyond the calyx. Calyx as longas the pedicel, 
- five-partite, the segments green, elliptical, tomentous at the edges, the 
three outer the larger. Corolla yellowish-white, salver-shaped ; the 
tube cylindrical, curved outwards, three to four times as long as the 
calyx, glabrous ; limb very oblique, five-partite ; Jobes subrotund, over- 
lapping, undulate, shorter than the tube, glabrous, without nectary ; 
a oa, by € “yee tuft ; white wool, which extends — half- 
way do e tube. Stamens five, h ous, erect, included, longer 
than the calyx ; filaments slender, palin; sathers adnate, erect, swel- 
ling upwards, opening by two pores at the apex, without awns ; pollen 
white, granules minute, round. Pistil shorter than the stamens; stigma 
Capitate, obscurely lobed, green, covering the oblong apex of the stout, 
compressed, clavate style; germen five-lobed, five-celled, the dissepi- 
ae opposite to the stamens, which lie in the furrows between the 
lobes." Ovules numerous, upon lin tral hich proj 
their edge into the cells. "2s gage ROMRTIEP YP, 2 cal 
