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spathulate leaves which faU in autumn, its large, lax. cymes of showy 

 y^oTtLrs, and its peculiar carpels at first concave on the mner 



' tKSCKiPXXON.-A s-allis\ glabrous deciJ.oujP^^^^^^ 

 short, thick, emitting strong fibrous roote l^low ^^^ ^^^^^f ^ft^short, wide- 

 perennial, half a foot long erect, spreadmg °^ ^bout I inc^thick. minutely 

 spreading, leafy, barren and flowering branches. J^out ^^ i ^^^^^ 



rLghenld. dark bro^^ish and bar^^ A,,, ^,,^ 



alternate, occasionally subternate ratner crowu shortly spurred, 



oblong-spathulate or broadly oblanceolatetap^^^^^ y^^ P .^^^ 



bluntly pointed and often shghtly ^f^^^^^^^^f^^l^'X/inchL acToss, of three 

 long.iinchbroad.spurtmncate Jny?or«cj«c^ttat 2^^^^^ branches with 



usually dichotomous ^^de-spreadmg, finely maminmate, ^^^ subsessile or 



flowers in the forks, ^^^^^,^'''^Z^fJ^^lZJrhS^S^e^.r. Buds ovate, with 

 sessile ; lower bracts resembling the leaves upper b^^^^^^^ yellow, or red. 



^rntlh l^r?s;.ruSy^bS^Jt'yeSr' ^.^^t leS-like. Ven. fleshy. 



Fig. 137. — S. variicolor Praeger. 



blunt very unequal, from \ inch to | inch long, from deltoid to oblong-linear or 

 oblongla/ceolaJe o; oblon*g-spathulate. widened at the base not ^Pu-ed, pa e 

 ereen tube very short. Petals ovate-acuminate to lanceolate, with a snort 

 Sucro Shind tS tip, patent, about equalling the longest sepal f^ mch long, deep 

 y^\Z Semens spreading, slightly shorter than the petals, filaments tapering 

 ve ow anthers reddish. Scales quadrate, slightly retuse, lemon yellow. Carpels 

 slender "quailing the stamens. It first erect with the inner edges concave and 

 ?h?8tvlS^ contiguous, soon spreading, but not widely, with erect sty es ; styles 

 fongsle?der occupying nearly half the length of the carpels. Fruit stellate. 

 I inch across. 



Flowers August-September. Hardy at Dublin. 

 Habitat.— Yunnan. Seed was received from Rev. Pere E. E. 

 Maire in 1915 from Tong-tchouan. labelled " Eboulis des rochers 

 des pics, altitude 2,800 metres." 



This is a handsome httle plant, and if it proves to be generally hardy 

 will deserve a place in the rock garden. The flowers are usually of 

 a rich orange-yellow, but in the batch of plants raised from P^re Maire s 

 seed there was a variety of colour unusual in the genus. Some plants 

 bore pale-yellow flowers, others deep orange, while in others again red 

 colour was added to enhance the deep-yeUow blossoms ; m one of the 



