Tas. 8078, 
GONIOSCYPHA svcomorpEs. 
Hastern Himalaya. 
Littaces. '‘l'ribe AspIDISTREA. 
Gontoscypna, Bak,; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p, 773. 
Gonioscypha eucomoides, Bak. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 581, tab. 
xix.; NV. HE. Brown in Gard. Chron. ser. ii. vol. xxvi. p. 744; Masters in 
Gard. Chron. ser, iii. vol. xx. p. 748, fig. 129. 
Species unica. 
Herba perennis, subacaulis, glabra, rhizomate brevi :adices crassas tomentosas 
emittente. Folia pauca basalia, elliptica vel elliptico-oblonga, magis 
minusve acuminata, basi breviter in petiolum attenuata, 10-16 poll. longa, 
5-8 poll. lata, firma, viridia, costa superne evanescente, nervis secundariis 
utrinque circiter 8, tertiariis plerumque 3 interjectis, venis transversis laxis; 
petiolus latus, 3-4 poll. longus. Spica pedunculata, cylindrica, densa, 
3-5 poll. longa, #-1$ poll. diametro, comoso-bracteata; pedunculus nudus, 
7-9 poll. longus; biactezs subulatae, 4-2 poll. longs, patule, summ2 
steriles in comam densam congeste. Perigonium carnosum, circiter 4 lin, 
longum, luride viride; tubus cylindricus 3 lin. longus; lobi subpatuli, 
concavi, rotundi, margine crispi, subcucullati, 17-14 lin. longi. Antherz 
in ore sessiles, oblong, obtusz, 1 lin. longa, lave. Ovarium globoso- 
ellipsoideum, 3-loculare, loculis 3-ovulatis; stylus clavato-cylindricus, 
superne triangularis, ad 2 lin. longus; stigma minute 3-lobum. Bacca 
globoso-ellipsoidea. 3 poll. longa, exsiccando fuscescens, subpruinosa, 
monosperma. Semen ovoideum 5 lin. longum, embryotegio depresso 
orbiculari supra medium sito; endospermum osseum. Hmbryo cylindricus, 
ab embryotegio u!tra seminis centrum porrectus. 
This plant was discovered by Thomas J. Booth, who 
collected Khododendrons in the Eastern Himalaya for his 
uncle, Thos. Nuttall, the well-known American botanist. 
Gonioscypha as well as the Rhododendrons, sixteen of which 
were described as new by Nuttall in Hooker’s Journal of 
Botany of 1853, are generally put down as natives of 
Bhotan. But it must be understood that this is not the 
Bhotan of our days. From letters by Nuttall to Sir 
William Hooker, and from Nuttall’s publication mentioned 
above, it appears that Booth collected in the Daphla and 
Aka Hills late in 1850. It has since been collected again 
in the same region by Mr. J. L. Lister in 1874, who quotes 
as locality: ‘‘ Daphla Hills, on the top of Yearsi, 4,500 feet.” 
It was first introduced into cultivation by Mr. W. Bull, 
of Chelsea, who, about 1886, sent a specimen to Kew, 
JUNE Ist, 1906. 
