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40. R. virgatum, Hook. fil. Tan. XXVI. A. 
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Has. Sikkim-Himalaya ; skirts of Pine-forests. Elev. 8-9,000 feet. 
. R. nivale, Hook. fil. Tan. XXVI. B. 
Has. Sikkim-Himalaya; on the loftiest bare slopes on the Thibetan frontier. Elev. 16-18,000 fect. 
. R. setoswm, Hook. fil. Tas. XX. 
Has. Sikkim-Himalaya ; open stony and rocky places. Elev. 18-16,000 fect. 
VIII. Calyx 5-phyllous, lobes membr eous. Corolla hypocrateriform, tube narrow, cylindrical, limb plane, 
patent. Stamens 6-8, included. Style short, clavate. Ovary 5-celled—Small lepidote shrubs. 
. R. anthopogon, Don, Trans. Wern. Soc. vol. iti. p. 409. Hook. Bot. Mag. t.3947. R.aromaticum, Wail. Cat. n. 1520. 
Haz. Gossaing-Than, Nepal, and Kamaon, Wallich, Hamilton; Sikkim-Himalaya : rocky, open, especially 
gravelly places, abundant. Elev. 12-16,000 feet. 
Note. A strongly and far more disagreeably and heavily odorous plant than 2. sefosum. This, the Palw of the 
Bhoteas, shares with the Zsallu (R. setosum) the blame of exciting the headache and nausea attending ascents to 
the dreaded elevations of the Eastern Himalaya. In the Herbarium its permanent odour is more disagreeable 
than that of any of the genus. Nothing, however, can exceed the beauty of its flowers, whether we consider the 
exquisitely tender, membranaccous, translucent texture of the corolla, with its delicate nervation, or the rich blush 
of the first opening blossoms, which insensibly passes into snowy white, then faintly tinged with sulphur—all 
colours seen on one and the same plant. 
