calyx-lobes have a fringe of minute glandular hairs that 
is absent from P. tibetica, Distinctive features of this 
Himalayan species are the pronounced yellow “ eye’? and 
the gibbous bracts. At Kew P. tibetica has proved 
hardy and has thriven well in the Rock-garden, but like 
so many other members of the genus it proves in culti- 
vation to be monocarpic and dies after flowering and 
ripening its seeds. 
Description.—Herb, up to 6 in. in height, with very numerous slender, 
fibrous, pale straw-coloured roots. Leaves many, all radical, long-stalked, 
ovate-spathulate, rather rounded at the apex; lamina 2-2 in. long, 3-2 in. wide, 
papery, glabrous on both sides; pale green, with 3-4 lateral nerves; petiole 
3-1 in. long, slender, glabrous. Scapes 1-6, leafless, 2-5-flowered, glabrous ; 
peduncle nearly 3 in. long, slender; pedicels erect, very slender, up to 2} in. 
long ;, bracts 3-5, oblong-lanceolate, somewhat acute, leafy, 1-2 in. long, 
markedly gibbous at the base. Calyx narrow-campanulate, } in. long, barely 
as long as the corolla-tube ; tube +5 in. long, glabrous; lobes ovate-lanceolate, 
rather blunt, with green lines on the back. Corolla pale rose-purple with a 
marked yellow eye ; tube } in. long, cylindric, striate ; lobes deeply emarginate, 
spreading in a limb which is nearly 2 in. across. Stamens inserted above the 
middle of the corolla-tube. Style glabrous; stigma shortly exserted. Capsule 
aearly § in. long, straw-coloured, firmly membranous, dehiscing apically by 
5 lobes. ee 
Tas. 8796.—Fig. 1, bracts; 2, a flower; 3, calyx in vertical section, with 
pistil; 4, corolla in vertical section, showing staminal insertion :—all enlarged. 
