from which our figure has been prepared was one of a 
number raised from seed presented to Kew in 1915 by 
Messrs. Bees, Limited, for whom it had been collected in 
Alpine Bhutan in 1914 by Mr. R. E. Cooper. The species 
has thriven well at Kew, and plants put out of doors in 
the Rock Garden flowered freely in May. Other plants 
grown in pots in a cool frame flowered equally freely and 
were exhibited in the Alpine House. Like its allies 
P. farinosa, Linn., and P. denticulata, Sm., between which 
it is in general features intermediate, P. bellidifolia has 
proved monocarpic. The plants in this instance, how- 
ever, though behaving as if quite hardy, unfortunately 
died after flowering without ripening their seed. 
Drscription.—Herb, up to 10 in. high. Leaves all radical, spathulate- 
obovate, tip rounded, base cuneate then curvately narrowed into the somewhat 
winged petiole, 1}-3 in. long, 2-11 in. wide, when dry membranous, margin 
doubly crenate-toothed, the teeth finely mucronate, adpressed setulose- 
pubescent on both surfaces, lateral nerves pinnate the lowest ascending; 
petiole up to 1} in. long, pubescent above and below. Flowers sessile, reflexed, 
clustered in a long-stalked usually about 15-flowered head, 12 in. across; 
peduncle over 9 in. long, glabrous; bracts minute. Calyx sparingly mealy 
without, wide campanulate, 5-lobed almost to the base, about } in. long ; lobes 
oblong-elliptic, blunt, up to 4 in. wide, green with papillosely ciliate margins. 
Corolla violet; tube cylindric, over } in. long, glabrous outside; lobes 5, wide 
obovate, deeply and broadly emarginate, expanded in a limb ? in. across. 
Anthers slightly exserted, very small. Ovary globose ; style about as long as 
the ovary, tipped by a stout 2-fid stigma. Capsule not yet seen. 
Tas. 8801.—Fig. 1, calyx; 2, corolla laid open; 3, pistil :—all enlarged. 
