Androsace lanuginosa. Wall. Fl. Indica, v. 2. p. 15. Cat. 



n. 615. Royle, Bot. of Himal. Mts. v. I. p. 310. 

 (0.) glabrior. Wall. Cat. I. c. 



Seeds of this charming alpine plant were communicated 

 to our kind friend, J. T. Mackay, Esq., from the Himalaya 

 Mountains by Dr. Royle, and they flowered in the open air 

 in the Dublin Botanic Garden in August, 1842, when the 

 plants promised to be hardy. The flowers are of a delicate 

 rose colour with a yellow eye, while the foliage and branches 

 and young portions of the stem are densely clothed with 

 long, silky hairs. Dr. Royle speaks of it as growing 

 about Choon. Dr. Govan found it on the Sirmore Moun- 

 tains, and R. Blinrworth at Kamoon, where the var. ($. also 

 grows. Specimens from the latter country are in our Her- 

 barium, given by Dr. Wallich, and we possess beautiful 

 ones, sent us by the late Countess of Dalhousie, from 

 Simla. 



Descr. Stems five to six or eight inches long, often 

 procumbent at the base, and there naked ; above, branched 

 in a proliferous manner, and leafy ; the leaves scattered, 

 alternate nearly an inch long, between oblong and obo- 

 vate, acute, clothed, as well as the branches, with long, 

 soft, silky hairs. Peduncle terminal, often as long as the 

 stem, soon appearing lateral from the proliferous shoots. 

 Umbel of many small flowers. Involucral leaves few, linear. 

 Pedicels generally short, but varying in length from two 

 lines to three-fourths of an inch. Calyx deeply cut into 

 five oblong blunt segments, close pressed to the tube of the 

 corolla, and equal to it in length. Corolla: tube short, ven- 

 tricose, yellow Limb of five rose-purple, spreading, round- 

 ed segments; the eye yellow: the mouth contracted, and 

 turnished with a crenated ring. Stamens small, concealed 

 within the tube. Germen turbinate. Style short. Stigma 

 capitate. a ° 



4. pgaV^ifeL ° alyX and ** 3 - to"** «* Tub, Uid open. 



