and Mr. J. Ball, both accomplished European botanists, who 
recognise it as a variety of caruea, and one which they have 
met with both in the Pyrenees and Auvergne. 
The Royal Gardens are indebted for this lovely Alpine to 
Mr. G. Maw of Brosely, who collected it in the Pic de 
Sancy, Mont Dore, in 1870, and who presented us with a 
fine plant of it in the early spring, from which this figure 
was taken. : 
Drscr. Tufts six to twelve inches and upwards broad, of a 
lively green, formed of numerous almost globular inclined 
rosettes, one inch in diameter. eaves one-half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, close set, uniformly recurved, linear, 
subacute, plane, ciliate on the edges, laxly pubescent on both 
surfaces, with simple or forked hairs, hardly dilated at the 
base. Scape short or almost suppressed, lengthening in fruit, 
robust, clothed with stellate pubescence, as are the bracts, 
pedicels, and calyces, about 5-flowered ; bracts erect, oblong, 
subacute, gibbous at the base, equalling or shorter than the 
pedicels. Calyx campanulate, turbinate at the base, segments 
ovate-oblong, subacute, green. Corolla rose-purple, with a 
yellow eye, one-third of an inch in diameter; lobes obovate, 
rounded at the tip; throat closed by short folds or scales. - 
Ovary depressed, globose, glabrous. Capsule ovoid. — Seeds 
black, oblong, granulate.—/. D. ZH. 
Fig. 1, Leaf; 2 and 3, flowers; 4, corolla laid open ; 5, ovary, style, and 
stigma :—all magnified. 
