species, that we feel ourselves, as it were, compelled to make it 
a variety. ‘The corollas are nearly, if not quite, double the size 
of the native plant as seen by Dr. Hooker, and instead of being . 
of a uniform lilac-purple colour, they are of the most delicate 
white, tinged with red-rose colour. In all other respects the two 
plants perfectly agree. It is a native of wet rocky places (rarely 
in woods) of Sikkim-Himalaya, in the Lachen and Lachoong 
valleys ; elevation 9-10,000 feet. It may be expected to be hardy 
therefore ; and, indeed, we may observe, that young plants of 
nearly all our species from Sikkim-Himalaya have passed this 
winter in the open air, simply surrounded by a bank of earth 
a foot and a half high. &. Dalhousie alone has failed in such 
a situation, and in many cases we know that it has equally 
failed under glass. &. ciliatum has been kept in a cool green- 
house, and has certainly the merit of being a ready flowerer, and 
that at a very early age. 
Dzscr. Even in its native country this species does not seem 
to attain a height of more than two feet, growing in clumps, and 
yielding a faintly resinous and agreeable odour. The whole 
plant, but especially the younger shoots, are more or less pilose 
with long ferruginous hairs. The /eaves, two to three inches 
- long, eventually become glabrous on the upper surface ; beneath 
they are clothed with minute ferruginous scales. Vowers ter- 
minal, arising from a scaly imbricated bud. Peduncles rather 
stout, very villous. Calyx large, almost foliaceous, cut nearly to 
the base into five almost rounded, spreading, obtuse /odes, villous 
on the outside. Corol/a campanulate, but with the tube subin- 
fundibuliform; very large in proportion to the leaves, in its 
native country usually of a uniform lilac-purple: with us of the 
most delicate white, tinged with as delicate a rose-colour, espe- 
cially at the back of each lobe. Stamens included ; filaments 
hairy at the base ; anthers rather small, purple. Ovary oblong, 
contracted at the apex. Style declined, longer than the stamens. 
Stigma five-lobed, peltate. 
Fig. 1. Stamen. 2. Calyx and pistil. 3. Section of ovary :—magnijied. 
4. Fruit :—natural size, seat 
