recognised among them by its radical leaves, and _ its 
leafless, scapigerous one-headed peduncles. At Kew it 
has flowered in an open border in July and has proved 
quite hardy, making vigorous growth in spring after a 
winter, unprotected, out-of-doors. What appears to be 
another form of the species with light yellow flowers has 
been gathered in the neighbourhood of Chumbi, immedi- 
ately to the east of Sikkim, by one of the collectors 
employed by the late Sir George King. The same form 
has alsq been found near Lhassa in Tibet by Captain 
H. J. Walton. 
Description. — Herb, scapigerous, reaching 1 ft. in height; rootstock 
perennial, suberect, usually monocephalous, clothed with the remains of the 
old leaf-stalks. Leaves somewhat tufted, ascending, oblanceolate, obtuse, 
narrowed below into a winged petiole, pinnatifid or less often nearly entire, 
6-8 in. long, 4-1} in. wide, thinly papery, pilose with long hairs on both faces, 
lobules obliquely ovate with rounded tips, about } in. long; midrib beneath 
wide and conspicuous, lateral nerves rather obscure. Pedwncle monocephalous, 
up to 14 in. long, about} in. thick at the base, furrowed when dry, pilose with 
long hairs below, villous above. Capitulum slightly drooping, nearly 2} in. 
across. Bracts 2-3-seriate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, somewhat acute, 
# in. long, over 3 in. wide, long ciliate, pilose on the outside, glabrous within. 
Involucel 3; in. long, villous, with undulately toothed margin. Calyx com- 
posed of about 20 filiform plumose setae, rather shorter than the corolla-tube. 
Corolla pale violet; tube funnel-shaped, slightly oblique, + in. long, pilose 
outside ; lobes 5, spreading, rounded, in.long. Anthers dark-purple, exserted, 
glabrous, crowned by the depressed-globose stigma. 
Tas. 8774.—Fig. 1, flower ; 2, section of flower, the corolla removed ; 3, part 
of an involucel, seen from within; 4 and 5, anthers :—ail enlarged. 
