Communicated from the stove of the Botanic Garden at 
Liverpool by Messrs SHEPHERD, -by whom it was received 
from Nepal under the name of B: hirta of Dr Watuicu. 
No such name, however, is published ; and the able cultivator 
just mentioned, rightly considers the plant to be the same as 
the B. picta, figured by Sir James Smrru from a Hindu 
drawing sent by Dr BucHaNan Hamitton. That gentle- 
man first found it on rocks above Nepal, and states it to be the 
Mungarchaci of the Parbutties, or Hindu conquerors of Ne- 
It is a lovely plant, elegant both in its flowers and foliage, 
and well deserving of cultivation in our stoves. : 
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Fig. 1. Section of the Germen of B. picta. Fig. 2. One of the styles. Fig. 3. 
One of the processes of the germen which forms the pubescence.—All 
more or less magnified. 
