500 LXXXVII. PEIMULACE2E. (J. D. Hooker.) [Androsace. 



tails the size of a pea sessile linear or oblong obtuse incurved, scape very short 

 ]-fld. ebracteate, calyx cleft one- third way down, lobes subacute, corolla-lobes 

 obovate, tips rounded. 



KASHMIR ; Jacquemont, Falconer. 



Patches 6-10 in. diam., of crowded branches and stolons 2-6 in. long, naked 

 below or covered almost throughout their length with the little balls of leaves. Flowers 

 numerous, ~ in. diam..; pedicels IQ-JQ in. Calyx between turbinate and hemispheric. 

 I can hardly doubt this being the .plant described by Duby, though the calyx is not 

 5 -partite, nor its lobes lanceolate. 



14. A. globifera, Duby in DC. Prodr. viii. 48 ; pubescent, stems very 

 short forming small patches, leaves densely imbricate in subsolitary globose 

 balls the size of a pea sessile broadly obovate obtuse or subacute incurved with 

 pubescent surfaces and long silkily ciliate margins, the older glabrate, scape 

 very short 1-fld. ebracteate, calyx cleft one-third way down, lobes obtuse, 

 corolla-lobes obovate, tips rounded. 



KUMAON, Jacquemont; Barjikang Pass and Eogila, alt. 12-15,000 ft., Madden, 

 Strach. $ Winterb., &c. 



This may be a high alpine state of A. Ckamesjasme, with short much broader and 

 sessile leaves, and solitary flowers. The fioi-al bract, though apparently absent, is 

 in this species and its allies at the base of the pedicel amongst the leaves. 



15. A. Selag-o, Hook. f. 8f Thorns, mss. ; Klatt in Linncea, xxxii. 292; 

 silkily shortly villous forming spherical tufts, branches densely packed ra- 

 diating from the root interruptedly or uniformly clothed with compactly 

 imbricating minute leaves hence cylindric and obtuse, leaves sessile linear- or 

 cuneate-obovate obtuse membranous and glabrous below the middle coriaceous 

 and silkily ciliate above it, uppermost elliptic subacute incurved, scape 1-2-fld. 

 and bract villous, calyx cleft below the middle, lobes oblong- obtuse, corolla- 

 lobes obovate-oblong obtuse. 



SIKKIM: HIMALAYA, and North of it, in the Tibetan region, aft. 15-18,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



Soot woody; branches with the leaves ^-^- in. diam., extremities silvery. 

 Leaves ^^2 m - l n g- Scape slender, p in. ; bracts silky, equalling the flower, which 

 is ~ in. diam. Calyx hemispheric, \ in. diam., enclosing the capsule. Seeds 2, 

 minute, irregularly oblong or ellipsoid. A singular and beautiful plant. 



16. A . Lehmanni, Wall. Cat. 617 ; densely tufted, glabrous except the 

 minute woolly scales sunk in the rosettes and the inflorescence, leaves in 

 continuous or interrupted subsquarrose whorl-like rosettes subulate or oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate sessile spreading and recurved from a broad imbricating 

 membranous base, scape 1-fld. very short ebracteate and flower glandular-pubes- 

 cent, calyx turbinate, lobes short obtuse, corolla-lobes orbicular. Duby in DC. 

 Prodr. viii. 48. 



NIPAL; Wallich. SIKKIM, at Jongri, alt. 12-14,000 ft. ; J. D. H., T. Anderson. 



A very singular species, of a dark chestnut colour when dry, and squarrose habit. 

 Stems 1-4 in., with the leaves - in. diam. Leaves -^ in. long, rather rigid, their 

 dark colour contrasting with the snow-white clusters of minute lanceolate scales that 

 nestle m the centre of the rosettes. Pedicels -^-^Q in. long. Calyx -~ in. diam. 



UNDETERMINABLE SPECIES. 



A. CORDIFOUA, Wall, in As. Research, xiii. 371, and in Eoxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 17; 

 villous, leaves ovate-cordate obtuse sinuate crenulate, scapes almost equalling the 

 petioles, umbels 5-fld., bracts setaceous, calyx campanulate shorter than the corolla, 

 enlarging over the fruit. Forests of Nipal. 



