and the crests of the range. Being bounded on the east and 

 west by lofty spurs from the great mass to the north of it, 

 which spurs close it in to the south, and leave it open to 

 the north, it possesses a climate intermediate between the 

 rainy one of the Himalaya and the dry one of Tibet, and 

 contains some peculiar plants. It has never been visited 

 by a botanist, and for a knowledge of its vegetation we are 

 indebted to native collectors sent by Dr. King. Its ele- 

 vation is probably everywhere above 10,000 feet, except 

 along the narrow gorges of the Machoo river and its 

 tributaries, which has its source in the snows of the great 

 snowy mass of Chumalari. Our specimen was raised from 

 seed sent by Dr. King, and flowered in May of last year, 

 and has proved to be quite hardy at Kew. 



Descr. Rootstoch short. Leaves spreading, long-petioled, 

 one to one and a half inches in diameter, hirsute on both 

 surfaces, orbicular and deeply cordate, pale yellow-green, 

 membranous, eleven- to fourteen-lobulate; lobules acute 

 obtuse or rounded, crenate or toothed ; nerves deeply sunk ; 

 basal lobes ear-shaped, enclosing a rounded sinus; petiole 

 two to three inches long, slender, hirsute. Scape erect, 

 very tall and slender, six to ten inches long, softly hairy. 

 Flowers many in a solitary terminal umbel, with sometimes 

 a whorl below the umbel, spreading and drooping; bracts 

 few, unequal, slender, green, shorter than the pedicels. 

 Calyx subcampanulate, pubescent, cleft to the middle into 

 five erect ovate acute lobes. Corolla pale purple, glabrous, 

 tube a little longer than the calyx, rather inflated and con- 

 tracted at the yellow annulate mouth ; limb two-thirds 

 of an inch in diameter ; segments short, obcordate, with 

 rounded lobules. Stamens inserted just beneath the mouth. 

 Ovary globose, stigma capitate. — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Caljx ; 2, corolla laid open ; 3, ovary : — all enlarged. 



