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Рілте 60 A.—Androsace Harrissi Duthie. A portion of plant,—of natural sise, Fig. 1, rosette of 
leaves; 2, single flower; 3, calyx, laid open to show the capsule; 4, corolla, laid open; 5, stamens; 6 seed,— 
all enlarged. 
9. Е. Di 
РГАТЕ 60 В. 
69. ANDROSACE FRAGILIS Duthie in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. ined. 
Natural order Primulacez. 
Perennial ; whole plant excessively glandular-viscid ; petioles, peduncles and pedicels 
slender, wiry, brittle ; /eaves all radical; petioles 2—6 em. long; blade usually broader 
than long, 2—3 cm. wide and 1:5 to 2 сш, from base to apex, orbicular or 
reniform, cordate, deeply lobed, thinly cartilaginous, dark-green above, the lower 
surface reddish-brown turning to bright-red, glistening on both surfaces; veins promi- 
nent; lobes extending almost to the centre of the blade, overlapping at their apices, 
usually with 3 crenatures at the summit; peduncles far-exceeding the leaves, 9—19 
em., usually curving upwards from the base, clothed with short silky pubescence 
with shorter glandular hairs intermixed; pedicels 2—3 cm. long, slender, spreading ; 
bracts cuneate-obovate or spathulate, often trifid at the apex, clothed with long 
silky hairs and shorter glandular ones; calyx broadly campanulate, deeply lobed, 
enlarging and spreading in fruit; lobes oblong or obovate, cuspidate, prominently 
veined; corolla slightly exceeding the calyx when in flower, deeply lobed; limb at 
first pure-white turning pink and afterwards bright-crimson; lobes obovate, bifid; 
tube short, globular, greenish ; stamens on very short filaments, attached to the corolla- 
tube 3-way up; ovary turbinate; style very short; capsule subglobose, usually covered 
by the marcescent corolla ; seeds about 20, “5 mm. long, ovate, flattened at the sides, 
minutely granular. 
Western HIMALAYA; in Jaunsár and TehriGarhwál, in the valleys of the Tons 
and its tributaries, growing in crevices of rocks at elevations of between 3,000 and 
7,000 feet. 
Judging merely from herbarium specimen of this plant, it night very reasonably be 
regarded as only a variety of the polymorphous A. rotundifolia Hardw. Its peculiar habit, 
however, when seen in a living state, together with certain very distinctive characters 
enumerated іп the above description, fully entitle it, in my cpinion, to specific rank. At 
all elevations it maintains its habit of confining itself to the crevices of overhanging rocks, 
nearly always out of the reach of direct sunlight. At the higher elevations, where 
A. rotundifolia becomes abundant, I have failed to detect anything approaching to an interme- 
diate form. It is at once recognized by its rather small glistening dark-green leaves, its 
minute pure white and crimson flowers, and by the long slender petioles, peduncles and 
spreading pedicels. It is also a very much more viscid plant than any of the known varieties 
of A. rotundifolia. 
Puare. 60 B.—Androsace fragilis Duthie. B. Entire plant; 7, and single leaf,—of natural size; 8, 
flower seen from above; 9, corolla, laid open to show the position of the stamen; 10, calyx, laid open to 
show the young capsule; 11, ripe "fruit; 12, seed,—all enlarged. 
J. Е. D. 
