Duby), a species remarkable as being the only thoroughly 
tropical one; for it extends from Calcutta to the base of 
the Himalaya, and ascends the hot valleys only of these 
mountains, hardly reaching even a temperate elevation. 
The true A. rotundifolia, on the other hand, occurs chiefly 
between 4000 and 8000 feet, though sometimes extending 
down to 2000, and in the drier western ranges it ascends 
to 10,000 and even 14,000 feet. 
A. rotundifolia is one of the first Himalayan plants ever 
described as such; it is also one of the most sportive species 
throughout its wide range of distribution, which includes 
the whole Himalaya from Sikkim to Kashmir, Western 
Tibet, and Affghanistan. Of its varieties, that here 
figured is the largest and most developed, the bracts 
becoming leafy, and the calyx-lobes very large and deeply 
toothed ; between this, and forms only two inches high, 
with entire oblanceolate acute bracts a quarter of an inch 
long, flowers no broader, and ovate acute entire calyx- 
teeth, there is every intermediate form to be found; and 
in still another variety, as fully developed as that figured, 
the calyx-lobes are linear-oblong or oblanceolate, and half 
an inch long. 3 
I am indebted to my indefatigable correspondent, Mr. 
Isaac Anderson Henry, for the living plants here figured ; 
they were raised from seed sent him by Augustus Johnstone, 
Ksq., and flowered at Hay Lodge in June of last year. 
Descr. (of Var. macrocalyz). Softly hairy, without stolons. 
Leaves all radical, one to two inches in diameter, orbicular- 
cordate, lobulate, lobules obtusely three-toothed or -crenate; 
petiole equalling the blade. Scapes slender, longer than 
the leaves. Involucral bracts leafy, half an inch to one 
inch long, obovate-spathulate, deeply toothed. Flowers 
numerous ; pedicels one inch to one and a quarter inches 
long, spreading. Calyx one-half to two-thirds of an inch 
in diameter; tube small, obeonic; lobes large, obovate, 
deeply toothed. Corolla much smaller than the calyx, 
pale rose-coloured, lobes obcordate. Ovary turbinate, with 
a circular depressed top.—J. D. H. 
ituaaes Flower with corolla removed; 2, corolla laid open; 3, ovary :—all 
