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Tas. 6699, 
GYPSOPHILA CERASTIOIDES. 
Native of the Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. CanYorpHYLLEX.—Tribe SILENER. 
Genus Gypsornita, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 146.) 
Gypsopuita (Heterochroa) cerastioides ; perennis, tota cano-tomentosa, rhizomate 
lignoso, ramis diffusis prostratis et ascendentibus foliosis, foliis obovatis 
spathulatisque obtusis in petiolum angustatis utrinque pubescentibus enerviis, 
cymis subcapitatis sessilibus v. breviter pedunculatis foliaceo-bracteatis, rarius 
nudis evolutis et corymboso-paniculatis, calycis semiquinquefidi lobis oblongis 
subacutis ciliatis, petalis calyce duplo longioribus obcordato-spathulatis 3-nerviis, 
stylis 2-3, seminibus latis atris tuberculatis. 
G. cerastioides, Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 213; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. i. p. 217. 
Acosmra rupestris, Benth. in Wall. Cat. n. 644; Cambess. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. 
p. 26, t. 28. i 
Timzosta rupestris, Klotzsch in Bot. Reis. Pr. Waldem. p. 138, t. 33. 
This belongs to a small section of the large genus Gypso- 
phila, established by Bunge for the reception of a few 
Asiatic species, characterized chiefly by the hairyness, the 
leafy cymes, and campanulate five-fid calyx, and which he 
regarded as of generic value. Other characters attributed 
to Heterochroa by its author are either variable or inconstant 
as to their presence, as a slight irregularity of the corolla, 
polygamous inflorescence, a scarious calyx, and the coloured 
petals which suggested the name. 
G. cerastioides is a. very common Himalayan plant, 
extending from Kashmir to Sikkim, at elevations between 
6000 and 12,000 feet. The flowers vary a good deal in 
size, and in colour from white to lilac, always with three 
red or purplish veins. The specimen figured was from the 
Joad collection, which flowered at Kew in May of last year. 
There are also plants at Kew raised from seeds sent from 
the Royal Botanical Garden, Calcutta, by Dr. King, col- 
lected in Sikkim. The plant is a very free flowerer, and 
well adapted for the rock garden. 
JULY Ist, 1883, 
