Scrophulariaceae of the tribes Gerardieae and Euphrasieae, 
impossible or difficult to cultivate. Upwards of 150 
species have been described, but many are of doubtful 
validity, and their number would probably be consider- 
ably reduced were the genus carefully revised. Mostly 
natives of Western North America, several are found in 
Central America, a few in the Andes of South America 
and one in Brazil and other parts of Tropical South 
America. One species, C. pallida, Kunth, extends from 
North-West America to Northern Asia, Arctic Russia 
and Lapland. C. miniata, popularly known as Bright 
Painted-cup, has a wide distribution in Western North 
America, ranging from Alaska southward along the 
higher mountains to California. Jt was originally 
described from specimens collected in 1826 by Douglas 
in the Blue Mountains of Northern Oregon and from 
others collected by Tolmie. The material figured was 
sent to Kew by Mr. H. J. Elwes of Colesborne, Chelten- 
ham, and this was furnished by a plant which he received 
from Mr. F. R. 8. Balfour of Dawyck, Peeblesshire, who 
sent it home with others during his visit to North-West 
America in 1913. The plants were lifted near Lake 
Agnes in the Canadian Rocky Mountains at about 8,000 
feet elevation. Mr. Balfour was uncertain whether the 
_ Species should be called C. purpurascens, Greenman, or 
U. miniata, but was inclined to think that it should be 
the latter, as it grows above timber line and is cardinal 
searlet, occasionally pinkish and rarely whitish, whereas 
the former is more usual at lower altitudes and is gener- 
ally of a purplishhue. , purpurascens is not represented 
in the Kew Herbarium. Judging from the description 
there is nothing to distinguish it from C. miniata except 
the purplish colour. According to Gray’s treatment of 
Castilleja in his Synoptical Flora the plant now figured 
should not be C. miniata, in which, he has stated, the 
calyx is about equally cleft before and behind, and the 
upper lip (galea) of the corolla is longer than the tube. 
The plant described here has the calyx more deeply 
cleft in front, and the upper lip of the corolla is distinctly 
longer than the tube. In these characters the subject 
of our figure agrees with the original types. C. miniatais 
by no means a new introduction into English gardens. 
