high mountains of Nepal, where he gathered it in 1821. I 
have followed the same author in considering it a variety of 
R. arboreum, not having had an opportunity of seeing the 
plant myself. But it is only fair to observe, that Mr. Don 
and Mr. Sweer, following Dr. Hamitron, have described it 
as a distinct species ; observing that it derives its most 
essential specific character from the circumstance of every 
alternate filament of the stamen bearing an appendage a 
little above the base, sometimes one on each side. 
Dr. Haminron appears to have first discovered the plant 
on a mountain at Narainhatty, in 1803. It flowered for the 
first time in Europe in Mr. Baxter’s Collection, 
