Br aba is one of the few genera amongst the higher 

 orders of flowering plants that is well represented through 

 nearly 140 degrees of latitude. This is, of course, in the 

 New World. Throughout, excepting the low countries of 

 Central America, Draba is frequent, at low elevations in the 

 north temperate regions, at high elevations in the tropical 

 and south temperate, the genus having its maximum 

 number of species in the Andes. In the Old World, on 

 the contrary, the genus Draba is confined to the north 

 temperate zone, bounded on the south by the Mediter- 

 ranean in Europe, and the Himalaya in Asia. 



Draba Gilliesii was discovered by Dr. Gillies in the 

 Cordillera of Cumbre, at about eight thousand feet eleva- 

 tion, and has been collected at various other localities, 

 always at a great elevation, of the Chilian chain. It varies 

 very much in habit, according to locality. The specimen 

 figured was presented to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in 

 1902, by A. K. Bulley, Esq., of Ness, Neston. It flowered 

 in the Alpine House in March, 1903. 



Descr. — A perennial tufted, lax]y stellately hairy herb, 

 one to ten inches high, of various habit and leafage. 

 Stem stout or slender, simple or branched, leafy. Leaves 

 sessile, coarsely toothed, half an inch to one and a half inch 

 long, lower or radical linear or ovate-oblong, cauline ovate- 

 cordate, more irregularly toothed. Racemes short or long, 

 few- or many-flowered, erect, pedicels three-quarters of an 

 inch to one and a half inch long, slender, spreading. 

 Flowers one half to three-fourths of an inch in diameter in 

 large states of the plant, much smaller in others, white. 

 Sepals oblong, obtuse, laxly stellately hairy. Petals obo- 

 vate-spathulate. Filaments glabrous j anthers rather small, 

 oblong. Capsules elliptic-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, with the persistent style, strongly compressed 

 and twisted. Seeds very small. — J. D. H. 



Pig. 1, flower with petals removed; 2 and 3, anthers; 4, gynaeceum and 

 disk -.—all enlarged; 5, fruit, nat size. 



Note.— Since the foregoing was set up, a reply has been received from Dr. 

 Lrilg, who makes the synonymy the same as ours, with the addition of 

 JJ. coleliaguensis, Phil. 



