Tas. 6617. 
ANDROSACE ROTUNDIFOLIA, Var. MACROCALYX. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Vee 
Nat. Ord. Prrmvtacex.—Tribe Prrmutex. 
Genus AnprRosacg, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Pl. Gen, vol. ii. p. 632.) 
Anprosace rotundifolia; perennis, estolonifera, pubescenti-pilosa, foliis omnibus 
radicalibus rotundatis basi cordatis multilobulatis lobulis crenato-dentatis, 
scapis elongatis, bracteis foliaceis obovatis v. spathulatis integris v. inciso- 
dentatis, pedicellis elongatis, calycis lobis corollam superantibus ovatis obovatisve 
integris y. dentatis, corolle lobis obcordatis, ovario breviter turbinato vertice 
depresso. 
A. rotundifolia, Hardwicke in Asiat. Research. vol. vi. p. 350 (non Smith, nee 
Duby in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 54). 
A. incisa, Wall, in Rowb. Fl. Ind. Ed. Carey et Wall. vol. ii. p. 16; Cat. 616; 
Duby, 1. ¢. 
A. cordifolia, Wall. in Asiat. Research. vol. xiii. p. 351, et in Roxb. Fl. Ind. l.c. 
17; Duby, le. 
A. parviflora, Jacquem. MSS.; Duby, l. c. 
A. elegans, Duby, 7. c. 55. 
Var. macrocalyzx ; laxe villosa, foliis 1-2 poll. diam., involucri bracteis foliaceis 
obovato-spathulatis incisis, calyce maximo lobis late obovatis dentatis. 
This plant has been the subject of unaccountable mis- 
conceptions on the part of several authors. It was found 
by Col. Hardwicke in the year 1796, and well described by 
him in the Asiatic Researches in 1801, with the locality, “on 
the most elevated ridges of mountain 8.W. of Sirinagur ” 
(Shree-nagur in Kumaon). This description and locality 
are both copied by Wallich in the Edition of Roxburgh’s 
Flora Indica which he and Carey edited; but to the 
description he has added under notes of his own, that this 
plant has been fully described by Smith in his Exotic 
Botany (vol. ii., p. 107, t. 118), “where Behar and Nepal 
are stated to be its native countries,” and that he has 
humerous specimens collected in the Turaya and about 
Katmandu (in Nepal). Now the plant figured by Smith 
as Hardwicke’s A. rotundifolia has nothing to do with that 
plant, neither is it a native of the mountains, but is the 
A. sawifragefolia, Bunge, of China and Japan (A. carnosula, 
APRIL Ist, 1882, 
