Tas. 6734, 
MORINA Covrrertana. 
Native of the Western Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. Dresacez. 
Genus Morina, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 158.) 
Morina erecta; elata, superne pubescens y. tomentosa, foliis longe spinosis 
radicalibus anguste lineari-oblanceolatis in petiolum subangustatis, caulinis 
3-4-verticillatis sessilibus, involucello villoso, calycis lobis subequalibus 2-fidis 
lobulis pungentibus, corolle flave pubescentis tubo gracillimo, staminibus 
perfectis 2 corollz lobis brevioribus. 
M. Coulteriana, Royle Iii. Pl. Himal. 245; Clarke in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. 
p- 217. 
M. breviflora, Edgew. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xx. p. 62. 
The only species of Morina hitherto figured in this 
Magazine is the M. longifolia, Wall., Plate 4092, a very 
handsome plant, with bright rose-coloured flowers edged 
with white, and black anthers; it is a common plant 
throughout the whole length of the Himalaya. The present 
species is much more restricted in its range, extending only 
from Garwhal to Kashmir, where it inhabits high elevations, 
9,000 to 13,000 feet ; it, however, extends westwards into 
Affehanistan, having been gathered in the Kurrum valley 
by Dr. Aitchison; and to the northwards in Kashgar. 
‘The flowers vary considerably in-length, but not in other 
characters ; those with short corolla-tubes (about half of an 
_ inch long) gave rise to the M. breviflora, Edgew.; the 
- longest flowers I have seen are those of specimens from 
Affghanistan. 
The first cultivated specimens of this Morina were raised 
by Mr. Isaac Anderson Henry, who sent a flowering 
specimen to Kew in 1880. The plant from which the 
_ plate here given was made, was raised from seed sent by 
Dr. Aitchison from Affghanistan, and which flowered in 
_ the Royal Gardens in August, 18838. There are some very 
- fine species of Morina still to be introduced from the 
eee _ -JaNvaRY Ist, 1884, 
