it ascends to 12,000 feet. The .specimens drawn were 
raised from Sikkim seed communicated by Dr. King, of the 
Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and flowered at Kew in June 
of the present year. 
Descr. A pubescent or hirsute herb, in a small state 
either six to ten inches high, with simple scape-like leafy 
stems, and numerous radical leaves; or tall, often two feet 
high, with no radical leaves and a branched leafy stem. 
Leaves, radical when present usually four to eight inches 
long, oblanceolate, narrowed into a rather long petiole, 
distantly toothed, three- to five-nerved; cauline ovate- 
lanceolate from a broad sessile and often subauricled or 
semi-amplexicaul base, acuminate, erect or recurved. Heads 
solitary on the ends of long peduncles, two to two anda 
half inches in diameter, very bright purple, disk yellow. 
Involucre broadly hemispherical; bracts slender, pubescent 
or tomentose, ciliate. Ligules three-fourths to one inch 
long, in two or three series, very slender, tube glabrous. 
Disk-flower glabrous. Achenes small, flattened, slightly 
silky; pappus scanty, hairs scabrid, with an obscure ring 
of small outer ones.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Ray-flower; 2, its style-arms ; 3, disk-flower ; 4, hair of pappus; 5, style- 
arms of disk-flower; 6, involucre cut open showing the receptacle :—all but fig. 1 
enlarged, 
