miles, when two species occur nearly together in the 
North-Western Himalaya, namely, Didymocarpus pedi~ 
cellata and the beautiful Platystenvma violoides, neither of 
which has hitherto been introduced into cultivation. 
Continuing eastwards the genera and the species become 
abundant, many occurring in the Eastern Himalaya, whence | 
the Order spreads eastwards through China and the 
Malayan Island to the Pacific and America. 
Haberlea rhodopensis was presented to the Royal Gardens 
by its indefatigable correspondent, Max Leichltin, of Baden; 
and it is also one of the many beautiful plants which 
formed the bequest of the late Mr. Joad, of Wimbledon. 
It flowered beautifully in the new Rock Garden at Kew in 
April last. : 
Descr. A hardy perennial, clothed except the corolla 
with soft spreading hairs. Leaves all radical, spreading 
and recurved, two to three inches long, obovate- or ovate- 
oblong, obtuse, coarsely crenate, thickly coriaceous, nar- 
rowed into a broad stout petiole; nerves few, oblique, 
strong beneath. Scapes several, stout, dark purple-brown, 
four to six inches high, two- to five-flowered, with two 
small subulate or lanceolate bracts at the top. Flowers 
umbellate, drooping ; pedicels stout, one-fourth to one-half 
of an inch long, with sometimes a filiform bracteole about 
the middle. Calyx campanulate, five-cleft to the middle, 
dark purple-brown ; lobes ovate, acute. Corolla pale lilac, 
one inch in diameter; tube broad, hairy within; mouth 
oblique, obscurely two-lipped; lobes all rounded-obovate, 
emarginate, spreading, the two upper forming the upper lip 
the smallest. Stamens included; filaments glabrous ; 
anthers united in pairs by the cells, which spread cruciately ; 
abortive filament very short. Disk very narrow. Ovary 
and style pubescent ; stigma notched.—J, D. H. 
Fig. 1, Portion of corolla and stamens; 2, tops of two filaments and anthers ; 
3, ovary; 4, stigma; 5, transverse section of ovary :—all enlarged. 
