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3-25 mm. longa, 1-5 mm. lata, margine praecipue pilosa; folia 
superiora anguste lanceolata, 3-25 mm. longa, 0-75 mm. lata, 
dorso margineque longe albo-villosa. Flores solitarii, sessiles, 
3 mm. longi. Calyx 2-5 mm. longus, alte quinquefidus, seg- 
mentis late oblongo-lanceolatis obtusis villosis 1-5 mm. longis 
1 mm. latis. Corollae tubus 2-5 mm. longus, fauce 1-5 mm. 
diametro; lobi rotundato-obovati, 1:5 mm. longi, 1:25 mm. 
lati, leviter emarginati, flavi (?); fornices aurantiaci ( 7), 0-5 mm. 
longi, truncati. Antherae 1 mm. longae. Ovarium late sub- 
spheroideum, 0-75 mm. altum; stylus vix 1 mm. longus. 
Mount Everest Expepition, 1921, Wollaston 303. 
This interesting species of Androsace must be a very beautiful 
plant when in flower. The stems grow together in dense compact 
masses. Each branch terminates in a close small mass of leaves, 
from the centre of which a solitary sessile flower arises. In this 
“ globulus ” it is scarcely possible to distinguish the individual 
leaves without dissecting, since the long white villose hairs 
form a grey felt covering. It would appear from the material 
available that the entire plant scarcely exceeds 2 cm. in height. 
The flowers are always completely sessile so far as can be judged 
from the material collected by Mr. Wollaston. : 
The species is to be placed in the section Aretia, and is 
compared above with Androsace Selago, Hook. fil. et Thoms., 
which is found in the Sikkim Himalaya and Tibet. : 
It is interesting to mention some of the species, belonging to 
widely different genera, occurring in the Himalayas, which have 
a similar habit of growth with short stems and dense terminal 
“ globuli ”’ of small leaves. Besides various species of Androsace, 
especially some belonging to the section Aretia, there may be 
recalled Myosotis Hookeri, C. B. Clarke, Saxifraga hemisphaerica, 
Hook. f., and several other related species of Saxifraga. 
dense vestitus; lobi subaequales posteriores paullo latiores 
ovati obtusi vel subacuti. Corol 1uis ad 1-8 cm. — 
tubus in flore longistylo infundibuliformis 7 mm. longus ca yoous 
longe superans intus puberulus extus dense pubescens exannu 
latus in limbum 5-lobum subzygomorphum infundib F _— 
extus pilis farini-potentibus indutum expansus, lobi ad 8 mm. 
