and the edges of the furrow also fringed with cilia. Such a 
species cannot fail to be a great favourite with all cultivators of 
alpine plants. It flowers with Mr. Moore in May. 
Descr. Small shrub, very much branched, the dranches de- 
cumbent, crowded, and subfastigiated. eaves densely and 
closely imbricated in a quadrifarious manner (so that the 
branches are tetragonous), erect, sessile, ovate, concave, rather 
obtuse, coriaceous, with a deep carina at the back, and that 
carina has a deep furrow (fig. 1), so as to form the keel into two 
plates or ridges, united towards the apex, which are fringed at 
the edges; the leaf itself has a broad, white, silvery margin, 
beautifully fringed with cilia throughout the whole edge. Pe- 
duncles axillary, solitary, short, hairy, single-flowered, decurved, 
hairy; at the base are two or three bracteal fringed scales. Flower 
drooping, large for the size of the plant. Calyz-lobes lanceolate, 
acuminated, with a scariose, ciliato-serrated margin. Corolla 
white, broadly campanulate, the mouth spreading ; Jimd of five, 
acute, patent /obes. Stamens quite included. laments subu- 
tate, glabrous. Anthers of two oval cells, opening with a large 
pore at the top, and each cell having a long, subulate, downy 
seta. Ovary subrotund, five-lobed, seated on a fleshy disc, from . 
one which the stamens emerge. Style short, fusiform. Stigma 
obtuse. 
_ Fig. 1. Back view of a leaf. 2. Interior of aleaf. 3. Flower and peduncle, 
and bracteal scales. 4,5. Stamens, 6, Pistil :—magnified. 
