500 Lxxxvii. PEiMULACEJ!. (J. D. Hooker.) [Androsace. 



tails the size of a pea sessile linear or oblong obtuse incurved, scape very short 

 1-fld. ebracteate, calyx cleft one-third way down, lobes subacute, corolla-lobes 

 obovate, tips rounded. 



Kashmib^ Jaoquemont, Falconer. 



Patches 6-10 in. diam., of crowded branches and stolons 2-6 in. long, naked 

 below or covered almost throughout their length with the little balls of leaves. Flowers 

 numerous, ^ in. diam.; pedicels' A-^5 in. Calj/x between turbinate and hemispheric. 

 — I can hardly doubt this being the {ilant described by Duby, though the calyx is not 

 5-partite, nor its lobes lanceolate.' 



14. A. g'lobifera, Duby in DC. R-edr.yin. 48; pubescent, stems very 

 short forming small patches, leaves densely imbricate in subsolitary globose 

 balls the size of a pea sessile broadly obovate obtuse or subacute incurved with 

 pubescent surfaces and long silkily ciliate margins, the older glabrate, scape 

 very short 1-fld. ebracteate, calyx cleft one-third way down, lobes obtuse, 

 corolla-lobes obovate, tips rounded. 



Ktimaon, Jacqwemont; Barjikang Pass and Eogila, alt. 12-15,000 ft., Madden, 

 Strach. ^ Winterb., &c. 



This may be a high alpine state of A. Chammy'asme, with short much broader and 

 sessile leaves, and solitary flowers. The floral bract, though apparently absent, is 

 in this species and its allies at the base of the pedicel amongst the leaves. 



15. A. Selag'O, Hook. f. Sf Thorns, mss. ; Klatt in Linncea, xxxii. 292; 

 silkily shortly villous forming spherical tufts, branches densely packed ra- 

 diating from the root interruptedly or uniformly clothed with compactly 

 imbricating minute leaves hence cylindrie and obtuse, leaves sessile linear- or 

 cuneate-obovate obtuse membranous and glabrous below the middle coriaceous 

 and silkily cUiate above it, uppermost elliptic subacute incurved, scape 1-2-fld. 

 and bract villous, calyx cleft below the middle, lobes oblong obtuse, corolla- 

 lobes obovate-oblong obtuse. 



SiKKiM HiMATATA, and North of it, in the Tibetan region, alt. 15-18,000 ft., 

 J. D. H. 



Soot woody ; branches with the leaves ^-J in. diam., extremities silvery. 

 Leaves ^~jj in. long. Scape slender, i in. ; bracts silky, equalling the flower, which 

 is j'j in. diam. Ccdya: hemispheric, \ in. diam., enclosing the capsule. Seeds 2, 

 minute, irregularly oblong or ellipsoid.— A singular and beautiful plant. 



16. A . Iiebmannl, Wall. Cat. 617 ; densely tufted, glabrous except the 

 minute woolly scales sunk in the rosettes and the inflorescence, leaves in 

 continuous or interrupted subsquarrose whorl-like rosettes subulate or oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate sessile spreading and recurved from a broad imbricating 

 membranous base, scape 1-fld. very short ebracteate and flower glandular-pubes- 

 cent, calyx turbinate, lobes short obtuse, corolla-lobes orbicular. Duby in DC. 

 Prmlr. viii. 48. 



Nipal; Wallich. Sikkim, at Jongri, alt. 12-14,000 ft. ; J. D. H., T. Anderson. 



A very singular species, of a dark chestnut colour when dry, and squarrose habit. 

 Stems 1-4 in., with the leaves \-^ in. diam. Leaves ^-\ in. long, rather rigid, their 

 dark coloiu: contrasting with the snow-white clusters of minute lanceolate scales that 

 nestle in the centre of the rosettes. Pedicels ^-jj in. long. Calyx JL in. diam. 



nMDETEBMnrABLE SPECIES. 



A. COEDIFOLIA, Wall, in As. Research, xiii. 371, and in Boxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 17; 

 villous, leave.i ovate-cordate obtuse sinuate crenulate, scapes almost equalling the 

 petioles, umbels 5-fld., bracts setaceous, calyx campanulate shorter than the corolla, 

 enlarging over the fruit. — Forests of Nipal. 



