Loder informs us that he has been able to layer the 
plant and has succeeded in striking a few cuttings. 
D. tangutica, Maxim., the species with which it has been 
confused, differs in having persistent leaves and bracteate 
inflorescences. The remaining species of the section 
Alpinae have white, silky flowers, and all occupy areas 
which lie to the north and west of that in which 
D. Giraldii occurs. 
Description.—Shrub, erect, 2} ft. in height, quite glabrous. Leaves 
deciduous, alternate, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate, obtuse or slightly acute, 
often finely apiculate, more or less narrowed to the base, 3-21 in. long, about 
3 in. wide, papery, quite glabrous. Flowers capitately clustered at the tips of 
the branches, rather few (in cultivated plants about 8 to a cluster), nearly 
sessile, bractless, quite glabrous, golden yellow. Receptacle tubular, 3-1 in. 
long, y5 in. wide. Sepals ovate, acute, up to 1 in. long. Petals 0, Stamens 
2-seriate; the lower inserted a little above the middle of the tube ; the upper 
inserted in the throat. Ovary sessile; stigma depressed globose, sessile. 
Fruit ovoid, } in. in diameter. 
Tas. 8732.—Fig. 1, flower; 2, the same, in vertical section; 8 and 4, anthers; 
5, fruit, nearly ripe, with subtending leaf:—all enlarged except 5, which is of 
natural size, 
