whether the species be hardy at Kew, but it may survive 
a mild winter out of doors if protected from excessive 
moisture. In habit it much resembles /eamondia pyrenaica, 
Rich. Though originally described as a oetilera, in 
which some authorities merge the genera Didymocarpus 
and Chirita, the structure of the flower indicates its true 
position as a species of the closely allied genus Oreocharis. 
The salient character by which Oreocharis may be 
distinguished from Didymocarpus, Chirita and Didissandra 
is in the four fertile stamens, the anthers of which are 
not coherent or even connivent. Dr. Diels described 
Roettlera Forrestii as having two fertile stamens with 
staminodes, the number of which is not stated. What 
were regarded as staminodes were fertile stamens from 
which the anthers had fallen, the real staminode. a very 
small minute body, being overlooked. Through the 
kindness of Professor Bayley Balfour it has been possible 
to compare and identify the Kew plant with the excellent 
specimens of Hvettl ra Morrestii collected by Mr. Forrest 
and now preserved in the Herbarium of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. The genus Oreocharis now 
includes about twenty species, all of which, excepting 
V. notha, C. B. Clarke, from the Philippine Islands, and 
O. primulvides, Benth. & Hook. f., from Japan, are Chinese. 
Description.— Herb, perennial, stemless; root fibrous. Leaves rosulate, 
the outer stalked, the inner sessile, ovate-oblong, obtuse, base rather cuneate, 
coarsely irregularly crenate-serrate, including the broad petiole 14-53 in. long. 
§-1} in. wide, densely clothed especially at first with long rusty hairs, main- 
nerves 5-7, stout, raised beneath, Scapes 4-10 or more, erect or ascending, 
24-4$ in. long, glandular-hairy, bearing loose umbelliform 4-7-flowered cymes ; 
pedicels }-1 in. long, glandular-hairy ; bracts and bracteoles narrowly ovate or 
lanceolate, } in. long or less. Flowers somewhat pendulous. Calyx 5-partite, 
3-% in. long, sparingly glandular-hairy ; lobes narrow ovate or lanceolate, }-+ 
in. long, } in. wide or narrower, obtuse or subacute. Corolla pale yellow ; tube 
wide cylindric, 1-2 in. long, 3-¢ in. wide, glandular-hairy; limb slightly 
2-lipped, usually 5-lobed, rarely 4- or 6-lobed, slightly spreading ; lobes rounded 
or somewhat elliptic, 1-1 in. long, $73 in. wide, the upper rather smaller than 
the others. Stamens 4, didynamous, rarely 5, included; staminode minute or 
absent ; filaments inserted near base of corolla-tube, slightly dilated, 1} in. long, 
glabrous; anthers free, not connivent, ovoid-reniform, cells nearly parallel, 
hardly confluent at the tip. Disk wide cup-shaped, very small, Ovary narrow 
ovoid, 1-2 in. long, glabrous; style short and broad, hardly longer than the 
amens; stigma patelliform. Capsule narrow fusiform, about 1 in. long, 
; in. wide. : : : 
Tas. 87. 19.—Fig. 1, calyx and pistil ; 2, corolla, laid open ; 3 and 4, stamens; 
5, pistil and disk; 6, transverse section of ov ; 7, fruit, drawn from the 
original type :—all enlarged except 7, which is of natural size. 
