having but 4 petals, which are purple in colour. In habit 
and general appearance our plant also agrees with WV. pseudo- 
integrifolia, Prain, a yellow-flowered Tibetan species; as 
regards its fruit it agrees with the Himalayan JZ. grandis, 
Prain. First met with by Wallich in Nepal in 1819, it was 
originally introduced to horticulture by Sir J. D. Hooker, 
from Sikkim, in 1848. It has been repeatedly reintroduced 
since, and the plant used in preparing our illustration 
was raised from seed received in 1908 from the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta. The seedlings were kept in a 
cold frame until the spring of 1910, when they were planted 
in a shaded moist position in the Rock Garden, where they 
flowered in May, but failed to produce seeds. Less vigorous 
in habit than some of the other species, I. simplicifolia 
requires greater attention than most, especially when the 
young seedlings, after they have produced two or three 
true leaves, are pricked out into boxes or small pots. So 
far as is known, M. simplicifolia is strictly monocarpic and 
usually flowers in the second year. Occasionally, however, 
at Edinburgh, where the climatic conditions enable this 
species to thrive more satisfactorily than it does further 
south, a few plants, Professor Bayley Balfour informs us, 
defer flowering till their third season. 
Descriprion.—/Terb, monocarpic, usually biennial; stem- 
less. Leaves all radical, tufted, sparingly hirsute, ovate- 
lanceolate, acute or somewhat obtuse, entire or distinctly 
toothed, gradually narrowed downwards into a distinct 
sions 4-8 in. long, 3-1 in. wide, green abvuve, paler 
eneath. Sowers showy, large; scapes 1-flowered, hirsute, 
1-14 ft., in fruit sometimes 2 ft., in height; buds nodding ; 
open flowers almost erect. Sepals 2, oblong-ovate, about 
1 in. long, hirsute externally. Petals 6-8, ovate, clear blue, 
2 in. long, about 1 in. wide. Stamens many, several-seriate ; 
filaments narrow, glabrous, free. Ovary composed . of 
6-8 carpels, cylindric, about 1 in. long, sparingly setose ; 
style distinct, glabrous, thick, about 4 in. long; stigma 
depressed, enlarged laterally, with radiating divaricate 
lobes; placentas intruded; ovules numerous. Capsule 
linear-clavate, 1-2 in. long, sparingly setose; seeds 
reticulate. | 
Fig. 1, stamen; 2, pistil:—both enlurged. 
