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Himalaya. No locality for this is given, nor is the colour 
of its flower ; and as Dr. Hoffmeister, its collector, travelled 
-both in Central Nepal and in the Western Himalaya, it is 
most probably from the latter country, where the yellow- 
flowered plant is a far more common one than is the rosy- 
flowered one in the Eastern. I may here mention that in 
the “Flora of British India,” in the absence of specimens 
of it, P. Hoffmeisteri is referred as a synonym to the closely 
allied P. siphonantha, an error which Dr. Prain, the 
Herbarium-keeper of the Royal Gardens, Calcutta, and 
author of a valuable revision of the Indian species of the = 
genus, has had the means of correcting, by a comparison 
of authentic materials. He refers it as a synonym to P. 
megalantha, but whether to the rose-coloured or yellow- 
flowered plant of that name does not appear; from the 
shortness of the corolla-tube as figured, I should judge it 
to belong to the latter, in which case, and if it prove speci- 
fically distinct from megalantha, the name of Hoffmeistert 
should be retained for the western species. 
The species of Pedicularis are amongst the most abundant _ 
and beautiful of the herbaceous plants of the Himalaya, in — 
many respects not yielding to Primula itself; some of the 
species attain a height of two to three feet, bearing long 
racemes of purple flowers; others, from higher elevations, 
are dwarfs, the long tubes of their flowers rising amongst 
the tufted leaves. In the “Flora of British India” I have de- 
scribed thirty-seven species, the number known up to that 
time. Since then collectors sent by Dr. King, especially to the 
Tibetan provinces of Sikkim, only lately accessible to British 
subjects, and other collectors in Burma, have enabled Dr. — 
Prain nearly to double that number of Indian species. This — 
extension eastwards of the genus indicates the accession — 
of a prodigious number of new species from the mountain 
ranges between Sikkim and Western China. — 
P. megalantha was received for figuring from G. Wilson, — 
Hsq., F.R.S., and is one of the many valuable acquisitions 
to horticulture due to the energy and skill of that eminent 1 
cultivator.—J. D. H. | 
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wee Calyx ; 2, lip of tube of corolla with upper lobe; 3, stamens :—al/ 4 
