Tas. 6661. 
AN DROSACEH FOLIOSA. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. PrimuLacE®.—Tribe PRIMULER. 
Genus Anprosacg, Linn. ; (Benth, et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. ii. p. 632.) 
AnpDRosack foliosa; elata, pubescenti-pilosa, rhizomate crasso estolonifero, foliis 
magnis ellipticis v. obovato-ellipticis acutis v. obtusis in petiolum elongatum 
angustatis integerrimis utrinque laxe pilosis, scapo solitario elongato robusto, 
floribus umbellatis graciliter pedicellatis, bracteis parvis v. majusculis, calycis 
lobis oblongis oblongo-lanceolatisve obtusis, corolla 3-4 poll. diam., lobis 
obovato-rotundatis, ovario turbinato, capsula calyce duplo longiore. 
A. foliosa, Duby in Jacquem. Voy. Bot, p. 142, t. 146, et in DC. Prodr. vol. viii. 
p. 49. 
A. sarmentosa, var, foliosa, nob. in Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iii. p. 498. 
This is by far the largest known species of Androsace, 
and though itself so unlike A. sarmentosa figured at Plate 
6210 of this work, there are so many forms of the latter 
plant approaching it in size and in habit, that I was induced, 
when monographing the Indian species of the genus, to 
bring these two together as varieties of one plant ; nor, 
though the differences between them are even more striking 
in living than in dried specimens, am I at all convinced 
that I was wrong. A. sarmentosa varies extremely in 
stature and in the base of the leaves, and sometimes wants 
the stolons altogether, and developes tall stout scapes 
exactly as in A. foliosa. A very similar plant to this occurs 
in Sikkim, which Duby referred to A. foliosa, but which 
has much broader shorter calyx-lobes; this is my var. 
grandifolia. 
A, foliosa is a native of the Western Himalaya, at 
elevations of 8,000 to 12,000 feet; in its wild state it has 
usually very small involucral bracts, but these vary 
excessively in P. sarmentosa, and would naturally become 
highly developed in cultivation, as have all the organs in 
DECEMBER lst, 1882, 
