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erugulosus ad os pentagonum annulatus annulo 5-lobato, 
limbi plani vel subrepandi malvaceo-purpurei utrinque plus 
minusve farinosi discus circ. 1 mm. latus, lobi late obovati vel 
orbiculares circ. 8 mm. diam. apice subretusi vel subcrenulati. 
Stamina ad faucem tubi corollini inserta antherarum apicibus 
circ, I mm. ab annulo remotis filamentis conspicuis virides- 
centibus brevibus antheris latis circ. 1.5 mm. longis connectivo 
viridi-colorato apiculato. Ovarium breviter cylindricum; 
stylus brevis calycem aequans vel paulo longior; stigma 
spongiosum magnum subcylindricum vel turbinatum albidum. 
Capsula ad 9 mm. longa crasse crustacea calyce dimidio longior 
spadiceo-fusca valvis 5 reflexis ab apice dehiscens; placenta 
cylindrica circ. 4 mm. longa breviter stipitata. Semina nigra 
oblonga angulata circ. 0.75 mm. longa; testa grosse vesiculosa. 
Species olim cum P. rotundifolia, Wall. confusa sed robustior 
et foliis majoribus, bracteis multo longioribus, calycis lobis 
latioribus, corollae lobis rotundatis notisque aliis diversa. 
Si Interior. J.D. Hooker. May 1848. In Herb. Kew. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu and Singaleelah Range. Alt. 12,000- 
13,000 ft. Watt. No. 5375. 1881. In Herb. Kew, Calc., Edin. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. Alt. 11,700 ft. Lace. No. 2255. 
23rd May 1902. In Herb. Calc. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. Alt. 11,000 ft. Rhomoo. No. 2196. 
3rd Jan. 1909. In Herb. Edin. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. Alt.12,o00ft. Cave. 15th Jan.1912, 
30th May 1913. In Herb. Edin 
Specimens showing enlarged fruiting state :— 
Sikkim. Kurz. Oct. 1868. In Herb. Calc. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. 12,000 ft. Gamble. No. 65c. Oct. 
1875. In Herb. Calc. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. 12,000 ft. King’s Collector. 1888. 
In Herb. Calc. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. 11,000 ft. No. 11,593. Oct. 1808. 
In Herb. Calc. 
Sikkim. Sandakphu. 11,000 ft. Cave. No. 6323. 2nd 
Aug. 1915. In Herb. Calc. 
Most Indian botanists have identified with P. rotundzfolia, 
Wall. from Gossain Than in Nepal some plants from about 
Sandakphu and Singaleelah in S.W. Sikkim. But these Sikkim 
plants are not, or at any rate not all, Wallich’s species. Sir 
Joseph Hooker has indicated his doubt of the identity of the 
Sikkim and Nepalese plants on a sheet in the Kew Herbarium 
of specimens collected by himself in 1848, and marked “interior 
of Sikkim.” Whether or no that means the south-western 
corner whence all other herbarium matenal) is derived I cannot say, 
but certainly this plant i t} Smany of the Sandakphu ones. 
