at elevations of 8000 to 12,000 feet. The name it bears is 
that of Mr. William Moorcroft, a veterinary surgeon in the 
service of the Honourable East India Company, one of the 
earliest and boldest of Asiatic travellers, who visited 
Kashmir, Tibet, and Bokhara in the years 1819 to 1825, 
with the view of obtaining Turkestan horses wherewith to 
improve the Company’s stud. Mr. Moorcroft was the 
first collector of Kashmir plants; and he contributed these 
to Dr. Wallich, who named and distributed them as part of 
his famous East Indian Herbarium. His end was untimely, 
falling a victim to fever in Bokhara, after enduring hard-_ 
ships and misfortunes of every description. 
The specimen here figured was raised from seeds sent by 
Robt. Ellis, Esq., from Chamba, a province close to Kashmir. 
Descr., A slender glabrous annual, four to ten inches 
high, Stem simple or branched from the root, the branches 
often again divided, flexuous, leafy. Leaves one to one 
_ and a half inch long, sessile, linear-oblong or elliptic, 
obtuse or subacute, nerveless. Flowers solitary at the ends 
of the branches, or in leafy cymes; pedicels one-sixth to 
half an inch, slender. Calyx campanulate, tube obtusely 
angled, a fourth of an inch long; lobes linear, obtuse, 
longer than the tube, equalling the corolla-tube or shorter. 
Corolla three-quarters to one and a quarter inch long, 
funnel-shaped, pale blue; throat naked and without folds ; 
lobes one-third of an inch long, ovate, subacute. Capsule 
linear, pedicelled, included. Seeds minute, subglobose, | 
testa smooth.—J. D. H. : 3 
Fig. 1, Flower cut vertically ; 2, front and back view of stamens; 3, anther ; 
4, pistil; 5, transverse section of capsule :—al/ enlarged. 
