this section in the Himalaya, as also of the purple-flowered 

 ion with a Blender ovary and capsule (see R. purpurea^ 



Smith, Tab. 4630), I have no hesitation in believing that 

 Boyle's genus should be retained ; and I do this with the 

 greater pleasure, because the name commemorates the 

 person and services of an old friend, and one of the most 

 distinguished officers of the Honourable East India Com- 

 pany's Service, Major-General Sir Proby Cautley, F.R.S., 

 of the Bengal Engineers, the Engineer of the Ganges Canal, 

 and joint author with Dr. Falconer of the most magnificent 

 of all geological works, the " Fauna Antiqua Sivalensis." 



C. lut a is a common plant in the Himalaya at elevations 

 of 5000 to 8000 feet from Kashmir to Bhotan, and it also 

 occurs on the Khasia Mountains at 5000 to 6000 feet. The 

 specimen here figured is from plants raised at Kew from 

 seed sent by C. B. Clarke, Esq., K.Ii.S., which flowered in 

 August of last year. The fruit ripened a month later. 



Descr. Stems eight to eighteen inches high, tufted, erect 

 from the rather swollen rooting base, leaf? all the way up. 

 Leaves five to ten inches long, narrowly lanceolate with a 

 slender tip, bright green above, paler or suffused or streaked 

 with red-brown beneath ; sheaths long and slender, green, 

 often striped with dark red. Spike four to eight inches 

 high, shortly exserted from the uppermost leaf-sheath ; 

 rachis slender, stiff, purplish red; flowers rather remote; 

 bracts shorter than the calyx, appressed to it, subacute, 

 green or red-purple ; flowers one and a half to two inches 

 long from the base of the calyx to the tip of the dorsal 

 sepal. Calyx tubular, red-purple, two-fid. at the mouth. 

 Corolla golden yellow ; tube exserted. Sepals linear-oblong, 

 obtuse, concave, dorsal erect, lateral reflexed. Lateral 

 staminodes like the dorsal sepal, erect, tips incurved. Lip 

 two-lobed, lobes oblong acute. Filament very short and 

 broad; anther-tip obtusely notched, connective produced 

 below into a dilated two-lobed appendage. Capsules one- 

 third of an inch in diameter, globose, fleshy, red-brown ; 

 valves three, broad, reflexed. Seeds angular, blue-black ; aril 

 cupular, shorter than the seed.— /. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Calyx and style; 2 and 3, stamen; 4, ovary and stylodes ; 5, stigm*; 

 6, hinting spike; 7, seeds with, and 8. without the aril -.—all but fig. 6 enlarged. 



