Androsace.] Lxxxvii. peimulaoe^. (J. D. Hooker.) 499 



seeded. Seeds angular, granulate.— In Wallioh's Herbarium the ticket of this has 

 been inadyertently attached to a sheet of A. aarmentosa. 



Vak. 1. typica, densely clothed -with white silky hairs, stems and branches elon- 

 gate, umbels dense-fld., pedicels short— Throughout the Western Himalaya. 



Vak. 2. glabrior, Wall. ; more slender, sparingly villous or silky, umbels loose, 

 pedicels ^-1 in. slender. — Kumaon to Sirmore. 



10. A, vlUosa, Linn.; Boiss. Ft. Orient, iii. 13; Btoloniferous, densely 

 villous, leaves in small globose rosettes sessile lanceolate or spathulate, scapes 

 solitary, invol. leaves usually equalling the pedicels, calyx cleft half-way, lobes 

 obtuse, corolla-lobes obovate, tips rounded, mouth with a conical erect tubular 

 swelling. Duhif in DC. Prodr. viii. 60 ; Jacq. Coll. i. t. 12 ; Reichb. Ic. Crit. 

 iii. t. 248, vi. t. 680 ; Ic. Fl. Germ. xvii. t. 1112. A. Jacquemontii, Buby I. c, 

 60 ; Mem. Prim. t. 3, f. 1. 



WasTERlf Himalaya ; in the drier regions from Kumaon to Kashmir and Wester.n 

 Tibet, alt. 12-17,000 ft. — Distrib. AflFghanistan, Caucasus, Alps, Asia Minor, Central 

 and N. Asia. 



Prostrate, in tufted masses of short naked stems and stolons bearing at close 

 intervals villous rosettes ^-I in. diam. ; much resembling a very small state of A. 

 sarmentosa or lanuginosa, but the corolla has a prominent conical ring at the mouth. 

 The scapes are sometimes shortened, and the umbels sessile. Bbissier identifies A. 

 Jacquemontii with A. villosa, I think rightly. I distinguish it from states of A. Chama- 

 jaame with great difficulty. 



11. A. XCoolteriana, Klatt in Linnaa xxxii. 293, t. iii. f. 1 ; sparing!)' 

 pubescent, loosely tufted, stolons and branches rigid divaricate, rosettes of few 

 unequal small petioled obovate or elliptic obtuse flat leaves, scapes solitary 

 slender few-fld., bracts linear, , calyx-lobes obtuse, corolla-lobes obovate, tips 

 retuse, mouth annulate. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachen, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



B)-a«cA«s divaricating. Leaves ^-^m., narrowed into petioles of sometimes the 

 length of the blade. Scapes J-3 in. Corolla much larger than the calyx, pink. Caf- 

 sule 2-seed6d. 



12.' A. Cliainsejasine, Host; Boies. Fl. Orient, iv. 14; laxly villous 

 with jointed hairs, loosely tufted, stolons and branches slender, rosettes of many 

 densely tufted sessile small obovate ovate-oblong or -lanceolate spreading or 

 imbricating leaves, scape solitary haiiy few-fld., bracts linear-oblong or spathu- 

 late equalling the pedicels, calyx-lobes obtuse, corolla-lobes longer obovate, tips 

 rounded, mouth annulate. Duhyin DC. Prodr. viii. 61 ; Reichb. Ic. Crit. vi. t. 

 580; Ic. Fl. Germ. xvii. t. 1112; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 232. A. villosa, Jacq. 

 Fl. Austr. t. 352. 



Western Tibet, Henderson ; Barjila and Karakoram, alt. 12-15,000 ft., ClarJie. 

 — Distrib. Alps, Arctic Russia, Central and N. Asia, Arctic America. 



Var. coronata ; leaves densely tufted imbricate shorter and narrower, mouth of 

 corolla with the ring prominent. — Western Tibet, alt. 16-17,000 ft., H Strachey, 



Var. mhifiora ; leaves densely imbricate, scape very short 1-2-fld. — Western Tibet ; 

 Halam, N. of Kumaon, Strach. ^ Winterh., No. 8. 



App.irently identical with the European, fee. plant, and like it variable in tlie 

 size of the whole plant and of the leaves. Rosettes |-f in. diam. Leaves |-| in., 

 obtuse or subacute. Flowers and capsules as in A. Hoakeriana. 



**• Scape.! solitary, \-'2-^., or peduncle \-fld. 



13. A> nmscoidea, Duby in BC. Prodr. viii. 48: villous, stems elongate 

 forming dense broad patches, leaves densely imbricated in close-set globose 



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