thousand feet elevation. In Sikkim and East Nepal I found 

 it flowering in November. A variety is found in Kumaon 

 with almost white pubescence. 



Descr. A lofty climber, with a stout woody trunk two 

 inches in diameter at the base ; branchlets, leaves, and in- 

 florescence densely clothed with tawny villous pubescence. 

 Leaves six to eight inches long, pinnate, with one to two pairs 

 of leaflets and a terminal one. Leaflets one to three inches 

 long, petioled, broadly ovate or ovate-cordate, obtuse or acute, 

 lobulate or waved, or unequally coarsely-toothed, sometimes 

 also denticulate, strongly reticulated, dull green; petiolule 

 slender, flexuous. Panicles axillary, broadly pyramidal, four 

 to eight inches long, with opposite strict horizontal branches, 

 which are themselves again trichotomously divided ; branches 

 and pedicels very stout, densely villous ; bracts leafy, sessile, 

 or shortly petioled. Flowers drooping, from three-fourths to 

 one and a half inches long, broadly campanulate, tawny- 

 yellow. Sepals very variable in breadth and length, from 

 almost linear to broadly oblong, tips acuminate revolute, 

 thickly coriaceous, strongly ribbed on the back. Stamens 

 very numerous, filaments linear, silky; anthers linear. Carpels 

 very numerous and densely packed, flattened, silky ; when 

 ripe, with feathery awns one and a half inch long, the whole 

 forming a head often three inches in diameter. — J. D. II 



Fig. 1, Stamens ; 2, carpels : — enlarged. 



