Tachienlu, at elevations of 11,000 to 15,500 feet; never 
lower. As might be expected, it is perfectly hardy in the 
open ground, but, what was less to be expected, it flourishes 
and flowers freely without any special treatment. Whether 
it will seed, time will prove. Under the most favourable 
conditions, in a wild state, Mr. Wilson cbserved plants 
about three feet high, bearing as many as eighteen flowers, 
whilst at its greatest altitudinal limit it is reduced to a 
rosette of leaves with one flower nestling in the centre. 
The plant figured in “Flora and Sylva” differs in 
having the more open flowers borne singly on stalks _ 
arising from the rosettes of leaves, and in the stigmas 
being borne on an elongated style-column. The specimen 
collected in the Gooring Valley, at an elevation of about 
16,500 feet, by Mr. and Mrs. Littledale, and referred by 
me (Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxxv. p. 164) to M. integrifolia, 
certainly does not belong to that species, as it has an 
elongated style-column. 
Descr—A robust biennial, usually one foot and a half 
to three feet high, densely clothed with long, silky hairs 
varying in colour, but usually yellowish brown. Stem 
stout ; branches and peduncles in whorls. Leaves numerous, 
mostly linear-lanceolate, six inches to a foot long, shorter 
on the stem. Peduncles longer than the leaves, o1 
_ flowered, clothed with reversed hairs. Flowers yellow 
usually five to six inches in diameter, sometimes as much — 
as ten. Sepals ovate, falling at the opening of the flower. 
Petals five to ten, orbicular-obovate, more or less incurved. 
Stamens exceedingly numerous. Capsule oblong, one 
inch to one and a half long, longitudinally five- to eight- 
ribbed, crowned by the same number of sessile, stigmatic 
plates, and opening by as many short, recurved, persistent 
valves. Seeds oblong, or nearly reniform, about a line 
long, with a prominently netted surface.—W. Borrina 
Hemstry. oS 
Fig. 1, a stamen; 2, a pistil :—doth enlarged; 3,a capsule :—natural size; : 
4, a plant :—about one-fifth of natural size. cs 
