Seeds of Tchihatcliewia were received at the Royal 

 Gardens, Kew, from the Imperial Botanical Gardens of 

 St. Petersburgh, in 1896, plants raised from which flowered 

 in the open air in May, 189S. 



Descr. — A stout, perennial rooted, densely leafy herb, his- 

 pid, with long simple, and short stellate hairs. Stem six to 

 ten inches high, very stout, copiously corymbosely branched 

 above, the branches all flowering. Leaves one and a half to 

 two and a half inches long, spreading and recurved, the 

 upper gradually larger, sessile, linear, sub-acute, hispidly 

 hairy on both surfaces, midrib very stout. Flowering 

 branches short, densely crowded, many-fld., together forming 

 a hemispheric corymb, four inches in diameter. Pedicels 

 shorter than the calyx. Sepals erect, linear, obtuse, 

 sparsely stellately hairy, lateral gibbous at the base. 

 Petals with the oblong, recurved, rose-red limb about half 

 as long as the claw. Filaments simple. Ovary oblong, 

 stellately tomentose, 2-celled, stigma sessile, 2-lobed, 

 anthers oblong. Siliqua an inch long, pendulous, obcor- 

 date or ovate, tip notched or 2-lobed, nucleus narrow, 2- 

 celled, wings broad, septum membranous, one cell empty, 

 the other 1-seeded. Seed orbicular, compressed, cotyle- 

 dons acumbent. — J. D. II. 



Fig. 1, Flower ; 2, stamens and ovary ; 3, ovary ; 4, hairs from do. ; 5, portion 

 of fruiting raceme ; 6, transverse section of sdliqua ; 7, seed; 8, embryo :— All 

 but fig. 5 enlarged. 



