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Tibetan plant which Mr. Hemsley has named Cremanthodium 

 Demyi (Werneria nana, Benth.; Senecio Clarkeanus, Franch.; 

 etc.) Werneria is almost exclusively an Andine genus, with 

 perhaps a scanty representation in the Atlantic and Abyssinian 

 regions of North Africa ; and in any case we should follow Mr, 

 Hemsley in excluding the ' Ligularia nana' of Decaisne from 

 Werneria ; but the very remarkable villous tufts on the segments 

 of the disc-fiorets of the E. Tibetan plant suggest the propriety of 

 placing it in a genus by itself though near to Cremanthodium, or 

 — if that must be merged in Senecio — then between Senecio, 

 (section Cremanthodium) and Tussilago. The name refers to 

 these appendages which resemble ermine tufts on a mantle or 

 tippet. 



XIX.-ALPINE NOTES FROM SIKKIM. 



(With Plate.) 



Mr. I. H. Burkill, Reporter on Economic Products to the 



Government o£ India, paid an autumn visit to Phallut in 1«J06 in 



search of Aconite tubers. The following extracts from a letter 



recently received from him give particulars of the interesting 



country through which his route lay. The accompanying plate 



has been prepared from two photographs sent with the letter. 



The upper view shows a group of trees of Rhododendron arboreum, 



Smith, with, in the foreground, part of an alpine meadow Idled 



with an Iris, probably /. Clarkei, Baker. The lower view shows 



a group of trees of Abies Webbiana, Lindl. ; in the distance is 



seen the Sandakphu ridge ; the open glade in front is occupied 



by Aconitum spicaturn and a hybrid Aconite, A. spicatum x 

 lac m latum. 



" Calcutta, 15th October, 1906. 



h "I found my second trip to Phallut interesting and agree- 



« ♦ *l ; iv 0ne result is the few enclosed seeds. You will 



h ™* If,?? "5 three P ackets of Impatiens seed ; 27688 is 



undoubtedly J. radiata, I send its seed because of the cleistogamy 



«orJ V , ^" erS - l think that the other tw ° * re L lonyipes 

 t and /. stenantha and if Sir Joseph Hooker could see them alive 



- ^omdinterSto Similarity y6t WHh con8 P icuou8 differences 



« f m^ iS i!fl y d f irabl i that s Pecies of Impatiens should be figured 

 "moSJii^ ' ^difficulty of discriminating them is 

 " a nW w ; ^° U T dt0ld - The 8eed lab ^led /. stenantha is of 

 "JcStW inn i /*! \ 8 P eckles on the yellow flower which run 



-Krft ft on the "^ vhile fte Llomjipes is pure 



- flower J hn^K B ° th T the 8ame 8ize , and equally oblique- 

 4Z of ' tl S ?T ° f ' stenanth a ' turns up at the tip and the 



- far more ahSETV ^ not The fl owers on < stenantha ' are 



u pod™ little t It? tha ? °. n ' lon ^P e8 ■• the ^aves denser and the 

 pods a little thicker. I had some difficulty in getting ripe seed. 



