was purchased from Mr, A. J. Johnson of Columbia 
Nursery, Astoria, Oregon, in January, 1898. It flowered 
in the following May in the Alpine House of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew. 
Deser.—A glabrous, rather succulent, many-flowered, 
stemless herb, with a stout fleshy root. Leaves many, all 
radical, two to three and a half inches long, including the 
short, narrowly winged petiole, spreading and recurved, 
blade one and a half to two inches long, broadly ovate or 
obovate, obtuse, base narrowed into the petiole, bright 
green above, paler beneath, Peduwneles rather longer than 
the leaves, one- rarely two-flowered, bearing one or a few 
small green bracts. Flowers three inches in diameter. 
Sepals about half an inch long, orbicular-oblong, obtuse, 
green, clouded with pink. Petals eight, one and a half to 
two inches long, narrowly oboyate-oblong, obtuse, straw- 
coloured, passing into bright pink in the tips and sides 
above the middle. Stamens about 20, filaments hairy, 
anthers small. Ovary oblong, style long, slender, stigmas 
three, very short, recurved. Capsule not seen—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Stamens; 2, a stamen, showing insertion of Hamauts 3, ovary; 
4, longitudinal section of the same, showing ovules :—AU/ enlarged. Pate 
