It is found throughout the range, from Kashmir to Bhotan, 
at elevations of 9000 to 17,000 feet, and probably-extends 
thence into the mountains of Western China. 
S. diversifolia flowered during last year both at the: 
Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh and Kew; much more 
luxuriantly in the former establishment, from whence the 
specimen here figured was sent by Mr. Sadler in July. 
Desor. More or less covered with glandular hairs or 
glabrous, except the corymb, often laxly villous below. 
Stem erect, six to sixteen inches high, strict, cylindric, 
simple or corymbosely branched above, leafy. Radical 
leaves few or many, long-petioled; petiole one to three © 
inches long, slender, sometimes villous; blade one to two 
inches long, ovate or cordate, acute, dark green ; cauline 
leaves sometimes very numerous, smaller, sessile, sem- 
amplexicaul, ovate oblong or rounded, quite entire, smooth 
or with a few glandular hairs at the base. Corymb few or 
many-branched and -flowered; branches erecto-patent, 
glandular-pubescent, with leafy bracts at the forks, the 
uppermost of which are linear. lowers one-half to three- 
fourths of an inch in diameter, pedicelled, erect. Calyz- 
tube obconic, angled, glandular; lobes much longer than 
the tube, ovate-oblong, rounded, glandular at the back and 
margins. Petals twice as long as the sepals, obovate, tip 
rounded, spreading and recurved, golden yellow, obscurely 
spotted. Anthers subglobose. Ovary ‘nearly superior; 
conical, bifid; styles very short, stigmatose at the tips 
internally. Capsule ovate-oblong. Seeds angled, testa 
somewhat folded.— J, D. H. 
= Bh Nae 2, petal; 3and 4, front and back view of stamen; 5, ovary :—all 
