by Bretschneider, in Kansa by Potanin, and a fine 

 series in Hupeb, by Henry. The specimen figured, which 

 was six feet in height, was cominuuicated by Messrs. 

 J. Veitch & Sons from their garden at Coombe Wood 

 in August, 1902. It was raised from seed sent home by 

 their collector, Mr. E. H. Wilson. 



Descr. — Stem with inflorescence four to six feet high, 

 stout, terete, smooth, glabrous. Leaves ternately pinnate 

 or bipinnate, radical rosulate, petioles long, very slender, 

 lower pinnae opposite, petiohilate, bearing one or two 

 rather distant pairs of pinnules, and a petiolulate 

 simple or three-lobed terminal one ; pinnules an inch 

 to an inch and a half long, opposite, sessile, oblong 

 or ovate, acute, coarsely unequally acutely serrate, 

 papyraceous, bright green above, paler beneath, base 

 acute or rounded, terminal pinnule usually twice as 

 large as the lateral, and more deeply toothed, base acute. 

 Panicle two feet long, narrow, inclined ; rachis brown, 

 tomentose; branches very many, alternate, sub-erect, 

 spiciform, lower four to five inches long, npper gradually 

 shorter, clothed nearly to the base with crowded globose 

 fascicles of minute, bright rose-pink, sessile flowers, rachis 

 tomentose ; bracts at the base of the branches membra- 

 nous, lanceolate, acuminate, half an inch long; bracteoles 

 at the base of the flowers minute, subulate. Calyx one- 

 sixth of an inch long and broad, turbinate, puberulous, 

 lobes oblong-ovate, obtuse. Petals four times as long as 

 the calyx-lobes, exactly linear, very slender, one-nerved. 

 Stamens shorter than the petals, minute, filaments violet- 

 blue ; anthers dark blue. Pistil of two conical, carpels 

 connate at the base, each narrowed into an erect style. — 

 — J. D. H. 



Fig. 1, Flower and bracteoles ; 2, stamen ; 3, pistil : — all enlarged. 



