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calyceminserta. Ovarium ovoideum in triente superno lobulatim 
incrassatum; stylus longus tenuis corollini tubum aequans, 
brevis calycem vix aequans ; stigma capitatum lobulatum. 
Planta forsan P. Jaffreyanae, King microforma sed robustior 
et foliis bracteisque longioribus, calyce tubuloso longiore, corollae 
tubo longiore, annulo minore notata. 
Tibet. Hills above Lhasa. Walton. August 1904. In 
Herb. Calc. 
This seems to be a Northern representative of the Chumbi 
P. Jaffreyana, King. 
The Lhasa plant at first sight seems very different from 
P. Jaffreyana, King, having longer leaves, much more markedly 
toothed and less distinctly petioled, stouter and larger scapes, 
longer bracts and pedicels, and the flower with a larger and 
tubular calyx with long acuminate segments, the corolla tube 
is also longer, the annulus less distinctly marked, and the 
insertion of the stamens not the same. At the same time 
the Lhasa plant may be only a microform of P. Jaffreyana, 
King. Both species have a similar leaf construction of a 
distinct kind. The leaves are somewhat thick, and the upper 
side has a glistening look in dried specimens, due to the 
presence of many foveolae of a minute kind at base of each 
of which is a glandular hair. In dried specimens there are 
over the surface a number of brown tannin spots. 
A series of specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium collected 
also by Capt. Walton, about Khamba in July 1904, at alt. 
16,000 ft., resemble P. /hasaensis, Balf. fil. et W. W. Sm. more 
closely than P. Jaffreyana, King, yet in some ways seem to 
be near the latter species. It may be a form connecting the 
extremes of an aggregate as we know it. 
I may note here that Sir George King * refers to P. Jaffrevana, 
King as apprdching P. tibetica, Watt but differing in its ‘‘ much 
larger more membranous leaves.” To my eye the plant is really 
not in the alliance of P. tibetica, Watt which belongs to the 
series including P. sibirica, Jacq., P. involucrata, Wall., P. Wardii, 
Balf. fil., while P. Jaffreyana, King has none of the conspicuous 
bract characters that distinguish them. Its place seems to me to 
be rather along with such forms as P. florida, Balf. fil., P. hazarica, 
Duthie, P. Legendrei, Bonati, P. Soultet, Franch. and other forms 
which constitute a characteristic enough section more or less 
farinose with leaves more or less stalked without cartilaginous 
margins, bracts linear subulate pulvinately thickened below at 
the base, ribbed calyces with parchment intervals, long corolla 
tubes, and delicate annulus. But at the moment I am not 
able to fix the limits of sections including such forms. 
* King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lvii, 2 (1888), ii, 228, t. x. 
