Kumaon, where it was collected by Strachey and Winter- 
bottom, at probably 15,000 ft. elevation. It reappears in 
Bokhara, having been found near Samarkand by the 
traveller, Lehmann. The specimen figured was raised from . 
seed sent in 1894 by Mr. Duthie, F..S., Director of the 
Botanical Department of Northern India. It flowered in 
the herbaceous grounds of the Royal Gardens in May of 
the present year, and is perfectly hardy. 
Descr.—A hardy perennial, one to three feet high, 
clothed with an appressed hoary or subsilvery pubescence. 
Stem stout below, slender and sparingly branched above, 
the branches bearing slender terminal at length elongate 
drooping cymes. Ladical leaves, eight to eighteen inches 
long, by one-third of an inch to three inches broad, 
elliptic lanceolate, acute, three to five-nerved, and penni- 
nerved ; cauline leaves few, linear. Cymes very slender, 
long-peduncled, many-fid., ebracteate; flowers remote, 
except towards the apex of the cymes, half an inch long, 
- nodding or drooping, slender pedicels half to three- 
quarters of an inch long. Sepals one-fourth of an inch 
long or less, oblong, obtuse, green, pubescent. Corolla 
rose-purple, with bright blue limb; tube as long as the 
calyx; limb longer, infundibular-campanulate, lobes short, 
orbicular, or broader than long. Stamens included, in- 
serted below the mouth of the tube, rather lower down 
than the scales, which are ciliate, 3-lobed at the tip. 
Style half an inch long. Nutlets orbicular, with a de- 
pressed echinate or tubercled disk and incurved pectinately 
glochidiate coriaceous margins.—J. D. H, 
Fig. 1, Calyx and style; part of corolla laid open; 3, scale of corolla; 
4, very young nutlets; 5, ripe fruit :—AJ/ enlarged. 
