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broad fringe, midrib slightly prominent; petiole about 1 mm. 
long densely lepidote like stem and with a few setulose cilia. 
Flowers in 2-flowered terminal short umbels; bracts early 
deciduous, outer ones crustaceous with thinner margin, dark- 
brown rounded apiculate as much as 4 mm. in diameter densely 
puberulous outside and inside, elepidote outside but occasionally 
one or two scales at apex, whitely ciliate, inner fertile bracts 
membranous venulose broadly oblong with nearly parallel sides 
somewhat truncate, puberulous outside elepidote setulose- 
ciliate particularly at top; bracteoles very short about 2 mm. 
long shorter than pedicels almost bristle-like, membranous brown 
with a few short cilia and one or two long hairs at tip ; pedicels 
about 4.5 mm. long dark-purple pubescent and lepidote with few 
or many scattered scurfy stalked membranous yellowish-white 
peltate scales. Calyx cupular about 3.5 mm. long 5-partite ; cup 
dark black-purple densely pubescent with white adpressed hairs 
and a few longer setulose hairs and some intermixed scurfy 
whitish peltate scales ; lobes nearly equal oblong-oval or some- 
what lanceolate or ovate acute as much as I.5 mm. broad, violet- 
purple puberulous inside and outside, on the. back also a few 
large peltate whitish scales often only at the base, hirsute on 
margin with long lanate hairs. Corolla bright purplish-rose as 
much as 1.7 cm. long outside pilose with long delicate twisting 
hairs extending over base of lobes, elepidote ; tube campanulate 
about 4mm. long villous at the throat, expanding into a spreading 
5-lobed limb ; lobes thin as much as I cm. long and 6 mm. broad 
oblong-oval rounded at tip crenulate. Stamens ro much shorter 
than corolla, alternately long and short, longer about 1 cm. long 
with pale-brown anther about 2 mm. long, shorter about 8.5 mm. 
long with anther about 1.5 mm. long ; filaments slightly widened 
at the hardly naked base, from the base upwards to mouth of 
corolla-tube puberulous. Disk puberulous below ovary. Gynae- 
ceum about 1.8 cm. long a little longer than corolla much longer 
than stamens ; ovary conoid truncate grooved about 3 mm. long, 
below adpressedly puberulous, upwards densely imbricately 
lepidote with yellowish scales and puberulous with intermixed 
short hairs; style purple glabrous or occasionally a few short 
hairs at base not clavate under the broader discoid lobulate 
lipped darker purple stigma. Capsule small about 4 mm. long 
and 1.75 mm. in diameter pale-coloured densely lepidote and also 
puberulous enclosed for about two-thirds by the slightly enlarged 
calyx-lobes, dehiscent from apex to base by 5 valves. 
‘W. Yunnan. On the Li-ti-ping. Open stony pasture. 
Alt. 11,000 ft. Lat. 27° 12’ N. Shrub of 1-23 ft. Flowers 
bright purplish-rose. G. Forrest. No. 13,905- June 1917. 
‘This very distinct species finds its place in the Lapponicum 
