present time been jealously excluded by the Tibetan 
authorities. Hitherto its botany is known only through 
native collectors, who have been sent there from Dar- 
jeeling under Dr. King’s authority, and who thus obtained 
both seeds and dried specimens. On a ticket attached to 
the latter the corolla is said not to be epunctate, but it is 
decidedly dotted in the specimen here figured. 
G, tibetica has been in cultivation in Europe previous to 
1883, at which date flowering specimens were sent to the 
Royal Gardens by Herr Max Leichtlin, and are preserved 
in the Herbarium. It has been in cultivation in the open 
air at Kew for some years, from seeds sent from the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta. It flowers in July. 
Descr.—Stem very stout, eighteen inches high and up- 
wards, fistular P stout, erect, unbranched, leafy to the tip. 
Leaves up to eighteen inches long, by four broad, lan- 
ceolate, acuminate, very thick and leathery, bases of 
opposite pairs connate, margins undulate, channelled 
in the upper bright green surface by five to seven pairs of 
nearly parallel sunken nerves, midrib beneath very stout. 
Flowers crowded in the axils of the crowded upper leaves, 
shortly stoutly pedicelled ; bracts small, lanceolate. Calyzx 
short, membranous, tubular, splitting to the base on one 
side, truncate, the mouth minutely five-toothed. Corolla- 
tube nearly an inch long, more than twice as long as the 
calyx, slightly inflated ; lobes a quarter of an inch long, 
ovate, dull straw-coloured, speckled with black; folds in 
the sinus short, acute. Stamens included; anthers linear- 
oblong. Ovary subsessile, ovoid-oblong, with short, re- 
curved styles. Capsule dehiscing at the tip, Seeds 
ellipsoid ; testa reticulated, not winged.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower with the corolla closed; 2, corolla laid open; 3, stamen; 
4, ovary :—All enlarged. 
