geners. Itis a very ornamental rock-work plant, but pro- 
bably requires protection in the winter of this country. It 
was flowered from our specimens simultaneously (in July) by 
Mr. Maw at Brosely, Mr. Niven at the Hull Botanic Gardens, - 
and in the Royal Gardens, Kew ; Mr. Niven’s being con- 
siderably the finest specimen. 
Descr. Root-stock woody, branched, perennial. Stems nu- 
merous from the stock, ascending, then erect, six to eighteen 
inches high, robust, quite simple, 4-angled, clothed below 
with soft snowy cotton, above with lax soft spreading hairs. 
Leaves two to four inches long, pinnatisect, sessile or petioled ; 
lower lobes few or many, broad or narrow, close-set or dis- 
tant; terminal one to one and a half inches long, ovate, 
obtuse or cuspidate, irregularly sinuate-toothed ; all clothed 
below with snow-white cottony tomentum, softly tomentose 
above ; floral sessile, ovate, aristate, shorter than the flowers. 
Whoris (false) 6-10-flowered. Flowers very shortly pedicelled. 
Calyx half an inch long, tubular-campanulate, tube densely 
appressed tomentose and clothed with spreading hairs ; lips 
nearly straight, upper 3- lower 2-lobed; lobes triangular- 
ovate, subulate-aristate, nearly straight, rigid, veined, by dee 
slightly up-curved. Corol/a nearly twice as long as the calyx ; 
pale pink with a yellowish disk to the lower lip, and purple 
speckled prominent pilose palate; tube ventricose, villous 
near the faux and on the short galeate compressed upper lip ; 
and with a ring of brown hairs near the base within ; lower 
lip deflexed, 3-lobed; lateral lobes small, decurved; mid- 
lobe quadrate, 2-lobed. Connective arcuate, lower arm pro- 
jecting, terminated by a deformed adnate empty anther-cell. 
Style-arms subulate.—J D. H. : 
Okc as 
Fig. 1, flower ; 2, calyx, style, and stigma ; 3, top of filament and anther :-— 
all magnified. 
