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A low undershrub up to about 20 cm. high, usually about 
12 cm.; stems curved, ascending or subdecumbent, often tinged 
with purple, rough with persistent leaf-bases, at first clothed 
with long slender subsetose hairs which are sometimes gland- 
tipped. Leaves deciduous, becoming larger in the upper part of 
the branch, in the lower part gradually metamorphosed into bud 
scales, sessile, obovate or spathulate-obovate, slightly decurrent 
1-2-5 cm. broad, chartaceous, strongly nerved and veined 
especially below, the nerves ascending and looped towards the 
apex, often setose below. Flowers solitary, terminating each 
branchlet; pedicels bearing large leafy bracts and numerous 
setose gland-tipped hairs, the uppermost bracts scarcely different 
from the calyx segments. Calyx lobed almost to the base, 
densely setose-pubescent outside; segments foliaceous, green, 
oblong, with an obtuse glandular apex, 1-1-8 cm. long, 4-5 mm. 
broad, strongly nerved, setose outside and on the margin. 
Corolla about 2-5 cm. long, carmine-purple; tube split to the 
_ base or nearly so on one side, about 4 as long as the lobes, 
pubescent outside; lobes oblong-elliptic, rounded at the apex, 
pubescent outside, spotted within. Stamens 10, declinate, the 
longest as long as the corolla; filaments very unequal, densely 
pubescent towards the base, purple-red; anthers nearly black, 
very broad. Ovary 5-celled, broadly ovoid, pubescent; style 
nearly as long as the corolla, curved, purple-red, villous-pilose 
towards the base; stigma depressed-capitate, slightly 5-lobed. 
Capsule narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, 5-lobed, scarcely 1 cm. long, 
shortly pubescent. Seeds very ‘small, scarcely 0-5 mm. long, 
oblong-elliptic, flat. 
DistRiBuTIoN.—In muddy mountainous places on both sides 
of Bering Straits and on the shores of the sea of hotsk, 
including Sakhalin, Kurile Islands, northern Japan (Yezo 
N.E. Hondo); in Alaska as far south as Bank’s Island. 
In its native habitat this charming little plant blossoms from 
the end of July and ripens its seeds about the end of September. 
In the British Islands, therefore, it should be grown in as cold 
a situation as possible, preferably under a north wall. Otherwise 
it is apt to premature growth, and is liable to be damaged by 
late spring frosts. 
2. Therorhodion glandulosum, Standley ex Small, 1.c. (1914). 
‘A low shrub forming dense clumps about 1 dm. tall, usually 
copiously branched; leaf-blades spathulate, often broadly so. 
or oval or ovate, on the upper part of the branches, 1~2 cm. long 
or less, obtuse, often rounded and abruptly pointed, or some- 
times acute at the apex, crenulate, glandular-ciliate, veiny, some- 
what shining, sessile or nearly so; calyx-lobes oblong, often 
narrowly so, to elliptic-oblong, 8-10 mm. long in anthesis, glandu- 
lar-pubescent and glandular-ciliate; corolla rose-purple, 2 cm. 
long or slightly shorter, glabrous, the lobes somewhat erose, 
