Dr Graham's List of Rare Plants. 395 



the dilated petioles of leaves, of which the diminislied laminee are oc- 

 casionally seen upon the apices of the lower ; similar bracts, but rather 

 smaller, and less keeled, are repeated on the outside of each pedicel- 

 late flower in the capitulum, and on each side at the base of each pe- 

 dicel there is an elongated narrow spathulate bract stretching a little 

 way beyond the calyx. Calyx as long as the pedicel, 5-partite, the 

 segments green, elliptical, tomentous at the edges, the three outer the 

 largest. CoroZte yellowish- white, salver-shaped ; the tube cylindrical, 

 curved outwards, 3-4 times as long as the calyx, glabrous ; limb very 

 oblique, 5-partite, lobes subrotund, overlapping, undulate, shorter than 

 the tube, glabrous, without nectary ; throat closed by a dense tuft of 

 white wool, which extends fully half-way down the tube. Stamens 

 five, hypo;5ynous, erect, included, longer than the calyx ; filaments 

 slender, glabrous ; anthers adnate, erect, swelling upwards, opening 

 by two pores at the apex, without awns ; pollen white, granules mi- 

 nute, round. Pistil shorter than the stamens; stigma capitate ob- 

 scurely lobed, green, covering the oblong apex of the stout, compress- 

 ed, clavate style ; gernien 5-lobcd, 5-cellcd, the dissepiments oppo- 

 site to the stamens, which lie in the furrows between the lobes. 

 Ovales numerous, upon linear central placentse which project their edge 

 into the cells. 

 The Countess of Rosslyn has taken great pains to form at Dysart House 

 an unusually extensive collection of the different species and superb va- 

 rieties of rhododendron, and, placed under the judicious management 

 of the gardener Mr Blair, they thrive and flower in a manner not sur- 

 passed in any collection in Britain. Among these the rare species 

 now described forms a dense bush. It was obtained from Messrs 

 Loddiges five years ago, and during each of the last three years it has 

 flowered in the open border, abundantly in April, and partially in Au- 

 gust. I am not aware that it has flowered anywhere else in the 

 country. It is native of the Himalaya Mountains, and extends, as 

 we are informed by Dr Royle, along the range, from Nepal to Cash- 

 mere, never descending lower than 9000 feet above the level of the 

 sea, but rising to an elevation exceeding 14,000 feet, with the last 

 remains of woody plants|; Rhododendron lepidotum and Salix Lindley- 

 ana alone being found in company with it. DecandoUe notices the 

 different evidence regarding the number of stamens by different au- 

 thors. The number may vary, but I am quite certain that in all the 

 flowers of the cultivated plant which I examined there were uniform- 

 ly five. The native specimens which I received from Dr Wallich 

 have no perfect flowers. The cultivated plant difl'ers from Dr Royle's 

 figure in being of much paler colour, in the segments of the corolla 

 being much broader, overlapping, and undulate, and in the bracts be- 

 ing rusty rather than yellow. 



Strobilanthes sessilis. N'ees von Esenbeck, 



S. sessilis, herbacea, hirsutissima ; caule erecto quadrangular! ; foliis 

 sessilibus, ovatis, acuminatis, crenatis ; spicis axillaribus, oppositis, 

 terrainalibusque ; bracteis ovatis, cuspidatis. Nc(is von JSsen, 



Strobilanthes sessilis Nees von Esen. in Wall. PL Asiat. Bar. vol. iii. 

 p. 85. Herb. Wight, propr. No. 1946. 



Dbscription. — Perennial. Stems (1 foot 6 inches high) numerous, her- 

 baceous, simple, erect, 4-sided, very hairy ; hairs very unequal in 

 length, spreading, acute. Leaves opposite, decussating, spreading 

 wide, subsessile, cordato-ovate, subacurainate, crenato-repand, with a 

 little deflected callosity in each notch, wrinkled, concave above. 



