Botanical Gardens, Saliarunpore, Upper India, who has 

 also sent to Kew Herbarium specimens from rocks in the 

 Kali valley, Kumaon, at an elevation of 8-9000 feet. The 

 plant flowered at Kew in October, 1886; it is not hardy, 

 and it ripened no fruit. 



Descr. TThole plant hispidly hirsute with white hairs, 

 those on the upper surface of the leaves arising from rough 

 tubercles. Radical leaves very numerous, rosulate, ten to 

 twelve inches long, spreading, narrowly lanceolate, nearly 

 an inch broad, acuminate, one-nerved, narrowed towards the 

 base, bright green. Flowering stem, eighteen inches to 

 two feet high, very stout, terete, pyramidally branched 

 from the ascending base, leafy; leaves or bracts at the 

 bases of the branches four to six inches long, sessile, lan- 

 ceolate, acuminate, three-nerved, longer than the branches, 

 which are erecto-patent with nodding short racemes of 

 crowded flowers at their tips ; floral bracts ovate-lanceolate, 

 about as long as the pedicels. Flowers drooping, pedicels 

 as long as or shorter than the calyx. Sepals half an inch 

 long, narrowly lanceolate, green, free to the base. Corolla 

 about as long as the sepals, nearly ellipsoid, with a rather 

 contracted truncate mouth, quite terete and sparingly 

 pubescent, bright scarlet fading to lilac; lobes minute, 

 very broad, recurved ; basal scales opposite the filaments, 

 obovate, truncate, concave in front, bearded. Stamens in- 

 serted close to the base of the corolla-tube, above a basal 

 ring of short hairs, included ; filaments filiform, not dilated 

 below ; anthers elongate, very shortly two-fid at the base 

 with short truncate lobes ; cells linear, puberulous, as is 

 the linear truncate prolongation of the connective, which 

 is half the length of the cells. Ovary of four-rounded 

 lobes ; style filiform, stigma quite simple. Nucules erect, 

 ovoid, acute, hardly beaked, quite smooth. — J. B. H. 



Fig. 1, Flowers ; 2, portion of base of corolla, scale and stamen ; 3, ovary and disk ; 

 4, nucules -.—-all enlarged. 



