AN ORNAMENTAL EREiMLKLS. 



Unidentified species from Kulikalan, province of Samarkand, Russian Turkestan. Its spikes 

 of rosy pink fiowers often reach a height of four feet. The pkuil is found at an altitude ot 

 7 000 feel in rich, black ^oil, and is able to stand both drought and cold. (Figure 10.) 



16S 



