144 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. tvoi. xxxni. xo. 391. 



few bract-like leaves, which arc linear, acinnimate, 1% cm. long. Heads 

 2 or 3 cm. across. Flowers blue ? Involuclar bracts in several rows, 

 the innermost the longest, the outer linear, acuminate witli the liji 

 often reflcxcd, mucronate, one-nerved, the inner linear, acute or ol)tuse, 

 often mucronate, 1-nerved. Ray-flowers ligulate, numerous, ?, in one(?) 

 row, tube 3 mm. long, limb 1 cm. long, few-nerved, toothed at the 

 tip, pappus 4 or 5 mm. long, scabrid, reddish, style 2-i)artcd, branches 

 flattened. Disc-flowers tubular, numerous, 5. tube 2 mm. long, limb 

 campanulate, 5-lobed, 2.5 mm. long, pappus as in the ra\'-flowers. 

 Stamens 5 (withered fl. seen), anthercells simple at the base. Achcnes 

 (immat.J compressed, linear oblong, glabrous. Receptacle flattened, 

 foveolate. 



38. Leontopodium alpinum Cass. ; DC. Prodr. VI. 275 ; Hook. 

 f. Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 279 ; Forb. ct. IIemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXIII. 423. (On the summit). 



L. sinense Hemsl. is reported from Mt. Omei (collected at tlic 

 height of 4500 ft.), but it is not found in tlic present collection. 



21. CampanulaceaB. 



39. Lobelia. (Sect. Holopogon Bentii.) sp. (On the slope). 

 Herb, prostrate, often rooting, not branching (always ?), villosc- 



pubescent. Leaves orbicular-ovate, cordate at tile base, acute or 

 obtuse, dentate-crcnulate, pilose-pubescent above and beneath, 6—10 

 mm. long and nearj' as broad, petrolate with villose pubescent, 3-5 

 ram. long petiole. Peduncles axillary, much exceeding the leaves, sulj- 

 glabrous, flowers solitary. Calyx-tuhe turbinate, subglabrous, 3 mm. 

 deep, limb 10- parted, segments linear-lanceolate, often few-toothed. 

 Corolla oblique, 2-lipped, 8 mm. long. Stamens 5, anthers deeply blue- 

 colored, all barbate on the apex. Ovary inferior, style thickish. 



The present species differs from the allied ones in the cordate form 

 of leaves, and seems to be an undescribcd plant ; but the specimen is 

 too insufficient to propose a new name. 



22. Ericaceae. 



40. Rhododendron concinnum IIemsl. in Journ Linn. Soc. XXVI. 

 21 ; Rehdek et Wilson in Sargent, Fl. Wilson. I. 522 ; Rli. cooni- 

 bense IIemsl. in Bot. Mag. t. 8280 ; Schneid. 111. Ilandl. Laubliolzk. 

 II, 1084, fig. 614— f.-g. (On the summit). 



