256 SHADE PLANTS OF THE ALPINE FORESTS 



however, is not British, the Knot-foot, Streptopus 

 amplexifolius, D. C. (Text-fig. XXIV.) is also some- 



Fio. XXIV. A Flowering Branch of the Knot-foot (Streptopus 



amplexifolius, D. C.). 



Showing the flower-stalks united to the axis for the length of the internode 

 above their insertion, and the flowers thus hanging below the leaf next 

 above that in the axil of which they arise. 



times met with, though it is rather local in its 

 distribution. It is an interesting species in many 

 respects. The flowering shoot is zigzag in form and 



