found it in Affghanistan in snowy ravines at 11,000 feet. 
Dr. Aitchieson has sent dried specimens of what is either a 
larger form or distinct species from a much lower level, 8,500 
feet, at Gulmarz, in Kashmir, and these have much larger 
obovate, oblong, and sharply toothed leaves, with rounded 
apices. In its native mountains it flowers from June to 
August, but in England as early as March and April. 
Descr.—Glabrous, not mealy. Leaves densely tufted, 
obovate-lanceolate, acute, sessile, one to two inches long, 
crenulate, deep green above, paler beneath, margins revolute 
when young. Scapes many, stout, longer than the leaves, 
four- to ten-flowered. Involucral bracts erect, appressed, thick, 
lanceolate, acuminate, produced downwards into an oblong 
obtuse auricle. Pedicels equalling or exceeding the bracts. 
Calyx one-third of an inch long, tube cylindric, cleft to the 
middle into five subulate erect lobes. Corolla tube exceeding 
the calyx; limb flat, one-half to two-thirds of an inch in 
diameter, clear bright rose-carmine; segments cuneate- 
obcordate, lobes rounded, with a deep acute sinus; throat 
a little swollen, smooth.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Top of scape and bracts ; longitudinal section of flower pias 3 enlarged, 
