work. The affinity of our plant is closest with S. media, 
figured at t. 7315 of this work, but it is easily distinguished 
from S. media by its more branched inflorescence with 
nodding flowers. S. Stribrnyi is, perhaps, seen to most ad- 
vantage when cultivated in a pot in a cold frame, but it. 
also does well in the Rockery, where it flowers sometimes 
as early as February. The plant figured, which had been 
grown in a frame, flowered in April, 1909. The species is 
a perennial one with clustered rosettes, but at Kew these 
clusters do not become enlarged as in some of the other 
species of the group to which our plant belongs. 
Descriprion.—Herb, tufted ; crowns short, densely leafy ; 
flowering stems erect, branched, sparingly leafy, patently 
glandular-pilose. Leaves rosulate at the base, spreading, 
sessile, spathulate-oblanceolate, somewhat mucronulate, up 
to 1 in. long and } in. wide, fleshy, glaucous, beset, above 
with intramarginal pits barely 1 lin. apart, keeled beneath, — 
margin narrowly cartilaginous, sparingly ciliate towards the 
base; stem-leaves oblong-spathulate, subacute, 1-2 in. long, 
up to § in, wide, green, sometimes reddish towards the tip, 
margin glandular-ciliate towards the base and sparingly 
glandular-pilose on both sides. Inflorescence cymose ; 
branches spreading or slightly recurved, up to 13 in. long; 
bracts resembling the stem-leaves, but shorter and usually 
densely glandular-hairy on both surfaces; pedicels up to 
3 in. long, patently glandular-hairy. Flowers nodding, 
about 4 in. across. Calyx campanulate, about 4), in. across 
in the middle, reddish-purple and densely glandular-hairy 
outside; lobes subequal, oblong-ovate, rounded at the tip, 
about 1 lin. long, glandular-hairy outside. Petals suberect, 
wide spathulate, apex bluntly toothed, about +1, in. long and 
under +4; in. wide, glabrous, carmine. Stamens shorter than 
the petals. Styles 2, free, erect, elabrous. 
_ Fig. 1, basal leaf; 2, bract; 3, hairs from margin of bract; 4, flower; 5, pistil; — 
6 and 7, stamens; 8, pistil:—all enlarged. 
