country by Tolmie, on the Oregon by Burke, and on the 

 Upper Missouri by Geyer. The specimen here figured, 

 flowered in the Eoyal Gardens in June, 1869, and has been 

 for some years in cultivation. 



Descu. Stemless. Boot woody, fusiform. Leaves nume- 

 rous, three to six inches long, including the slender petiole, 

 more or less covered below or on both surfaces and margins 

 with soft pubescence, very variable in length and breadth, 

 acute or obtuse, subentire, toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers 

 axillary, subsessile. Cfe^-tube very long and slender, three 

 to six inches long, tumid at the base, narrowly funnel-shaped 

 at the top ; lobes one to two inches long, subulate-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, carmine or greenish. Petals very variable in size, 

 about as long as the sepals, in our specimens two inches 

 across, broadly obcordate, white, pale pink in bud. Filaments 

 nearly equal, slender, green ; anthers narrow, yellow. Style 

 very slender, with four spreading, narrow stigmas. Capsule 

 an inch long, oblong-cylindric, obscurely four-angled, four- 

 ribbed. Seeds ovoid, gibbous, grooved along the inner side. 

 — /. D. H. 



