500 LXXXVII. PRIMULACEE. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Androsace. 
balls the size of a pea sessile linear or oblong obtuse incurved, scape very short 
1-fld. ebracteate, calyx cleft one-third way down, lobes subacute, corolla-lobes 
obovate, tips rounded. ; 
KASHMIR; Jacquemont, Falconer. 
Patches 6-10 in. diam., of crowded branches and stolons 2-6 in. long, naked 
below or covered almost throughout their length with the little balls of leaves. Flowers 
numerous, de in. diam. ; pedicels de Je in. Calyx between turbinate and hemispheric. 
—] can hardly doubt this being the plant described by Duby, though the calyx is not 
5-partite, nor its lobes lanceolate. 
14. A. globifera, Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 48; pubescent, stems very 
short forming small patches, leaves densely imbricate in subsolitary globose 
balls the size of a pea sessile broadly obovate obtuse or subacute incurved with 
pubescent surfaces and long silkily ciliate margins, the older glabrate, scape 
very short l-fld. ebracteate, calyx cleft one-third way down, lobes obtuse, 
corolla-lobes obovate, tips rounded. 
Kumaon, Jacquemont ` Barjikang Pass and Rogila, alt. 12-15,000 ft., Madden, 
Strach. d Winterb., Ze, 
This may be a high alpine state of A. Chamejasme, with short much broader and 
sessile leaves, and solitary flowers. The floral braet, though apparently absent, is 
in this species and its allies at the base of the pedicel amongst the leaves, 
15. A. Selago, Hook. f. § Thoms. mss. ; Klatt in Linnea, xxxii. 292 ; 
silkily shortly villous forming spherical tufts, branches densely packed ra- 
diating from the root interruptedly or uniformly clothed with compactly 
imbricating minute leaves hence cylindric and obtuse, leaves sessile linear- or 
cuneate-obovate obtuse membranous and glabrous below the middle coriaceous 
and silkily ciliate above it, uppermost elliptic subacute incurved, scape 1—2-fid. 
and bract villous, calyx cleft below the middle, lobes oblong obtuse, corolla- 
lobes obovate-oblong obtuse. 
mxng Himatraya, and North of it, in the Tibetan region, alt. 15-18,000 ft., 
J. D. H 
Root woody; branches with the leaves j-À in. diam., extremities silvery. 
Leaves 3-7; in. long. Scape slender, A in. ; bracts silky, equalling the flower, which 
is 4j in. diam. Calyx hemispheric, j,in. diam., enclosing the capsule. Seeds 2, 
minute, irregularly oblong or ellipsoid.—4A singular and beautiful plant. 
16. A. Lehmanni, Wall. Cat, 617; densely tufted, glabrous except the 
minute woolly scales sunk in the rosettes and the inflorescence, leaves in 
continuous or interrupted subsquarrose whorl-like rosettes subulate or oblong- 
lanceolate acuminate sessile spreading and recurved from a broad imbricating 
membranous base, scape 1-fld. very short ebracteate and flower glandular-pubes- 
cent, calyx turbinate, lobes short obtuse, corolla-lobes orbicular. Duby in DC, 
Prodr. viii. 48. 
Nat, : Wallich. Sıxxm, at Jongri, alt. 12-14,000 ft.; J. D. H., T. Anderson. 
A very singular species, of a dark chestnut colour when dry, and squarrose habit. 
Stems 1—4 in., with the leaves 1-1 in. diam. Leaves $—} in. long, rather rigid, their 
dark colour contrasting with the snow-white clusters of minute lanceolate scales that 
nestle in the centre of the rosettes. Pedicels A in. long. Calyx d in. diam, 
UNDETERMINABLE SPECIES. 
A. CORDIFOLIA, Wall, in As. Research, xiii. 371, and in Roxb, Fl. Ind. ii. 17; 
villous, leaves ovate-cordate obtuse sinuate crenulate, scapes almost equalling the 
petioles, umbels 5-fld., bracts setaceous, calyx campanulate shorter than the corolla, 
enlarging over the fruit.-—Forests of Nipal. 
