regards foliage, the leaves of P. penduliflora being only 
simply dentate with the teeth more distant. The section 
includes several beautiful Himalayan species, most of 
which are in cultivation, and all of which have rather 
few nodding or reflexed sessile flowers arranged in more 
or less globose heads. Among these may be mentioned 
P. Reidii, Duthie, figured in this work at t. 6961, and 
P. Watt, King, figured at t. 8456. The representative 
species of the section is taken by Professor Balfour to be 
P. spicata, Franch. At Kew P. nutans has grown well 
and flowered freely in the Rock Garden and also in pots 
in a cold frame. It is evidently quite hardy. It pro- 
duces good seeds, but perishes after flowering. 
Description.—Herb, in cultivation monocarpic, up to 1 ft. high; base some- 
what fibrous. Leaves petioled, elliptic-oblanceolate, quite obtuse or rounded 
at the tip, gradually narrowed downwards with a broad winged petiole, 
25-6 in. long, 1}-1} in. wide, doubly repand - toothed, thinly papery or 
membranous, shortly softly hairy on both surfaces; lateral nerves 8-10 along 
each side of the midrib, which they leave at an angle of 45°, raised on both 
surfaces; petiole 14-1 in. long, with broad membranous wings. Flowers © 
6-10, nodding, sessile, crowded in a long-stalked head; scape white-mealy 
towards the top, twice as long as the leaves. Calyx wide-campanulate ; tube 
% in. long, green, white-mealy outside, lobes wide-ovate, acute, qo in. long, 
tz in. wide. Corolla violet ; tube cylindric, 1-2 in. long, white-mealy outside, 
expanding into a 5-lobed limb about #3 in. across, with ovate-orbicular lobes 
over } in. across, which are mucronulate at the apex between two small teeth. 
Anthers inserted below the middle of the tube, wide-ovoid, 1; in. long. Style 
over in. long; stigma depressed-capitate. 
Tas. 8735.—Fig. 1, part of a leaf; 2, ca) d pistil ; i ; 
inm* nme 6 al wns 
