APPENDIX. 



P. seclusa is a coarse-leaved cousin of P. mollis, with profusion of bright pink 

 flowers, fading irregularly outwards in the lobes. It loves deep and damp 

 shady gullies in the rain-zone of the Burmese forests, and niay therefore main- 

 tain a just and fixed displeasure against the conditions of life in the open in 

 England. 



P. sinomollis differs chiefly from its eponym in having slenderer stems and 

 a much smaller calyx. It stands even nearer to P. cinerascens, but has bigger 

 crinklier leaves, and tall stems particularly lavishly endowed with tiers of 

 blossoms. It will want the same conditions as the rest, and be no more 

 hardy. 



P. stolonifera, pervading the boggy stream sides in the Lichiang Alps, may 

 be figured as a fine many-stalked P. denticulata, with globes of fragrant 

 golden-eyed flowers of lavender. But it differs immensely in throwing out 

 long stout stolons on every side, and thus ramifying into a notable jungle of 

 clumps. 



P. tanupoda exists in only one specimen, and seems to stand between P. 

 sibirica and P. tibetica. It is mealy, according to the invariable character of 

 P. tibetica, indeed, but its flower is larger and does not reflex in fading. How- 

 ever, we may defer meditations on P. tanupoda's character until the plant 

 itself has materialised. 



P. Tenana differs from P. blattariformis, of which it once was only held a 

 variety, in short soft foliage, deeply roundly lobed, in a wool-less stem, shorter 

 pedicels, and smaller flowers. 



P. viola-grandis. See my Chinese Appendix. It is by far the smallest of 

 its group, a mere big violet indeed, as compared to the great wide-throated 

 Gloxinias of P. Elwesiana and P. Delavayi. 



P. Waddellii may be but a microform of P. Stirtoniana, and anyhow, is based 

 on specimens so scanty that at present we need bother about it no further. 

 It should have one solitary flower squatting tight in the powderless rosettes of 

 its carpet. 



P. Waltonii cries aloud to be collected from its home on the high gaunt 

 hills of Holy Lhasa. Only two sheets of dried specimens are so far known ; but 

 this promises to be a beautiful Sikkimensis cousin of tall stature, powdered with 

 yellow meal, and swinging out a splendid shock of lilac-violet blossoms in a 

 lavish head. In fact, though one of the rare non-yellow species in the group, 

 it is exactly like P. sikkimensis in effect, differing only in the colour and shape 

 of the blossom, and in the form of the calyx. 



P. Wardii is what used to be called P. sibirica chinensis, a collector's com- 

 monplace all through the Alps of Western China. It is also what is usually 

 grown as P. sibirica, but a very much finer thing than that feeble little plant, 

 being in fact more of a glorified, magnified P. involucrata with soft lavender- 

 rose flowers, but otherwise of identical needs and habits, and the same clean, 

 entrancing fragrance. It has proved a most precious introduction, and of the 

 freest, heartiest temper in cool moist soil. The real P. sibirica still awaits 

 unravelling. In the Da-Tung Chain I found a plant which is clearlv the one 



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