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big, golden-hearted flowers that are not blue, as often said, 
but of a dense waxen texture and milk or skim-milk colouring, 
only rarely deepening to any blue tone. Isopyrum sp. (F 293) 
cannot yet be sent out. It occurs in the Monk Mountain 
district (flower unknown) and differs from F 96 in greener, 
rather large foliage, and in a distinctly bigger, rounder seed. 
Ipse non vidi. Coll. W. Purdom. 
Jasminum sp. (F 383) is a small golden-flowered shrub collected by 
Purdom (May) in the copse below Chago, and not seen by myself. 
It is remarkably free in flower, but scentless, and rather stiff in 
growth. 
Jasminum floridum (F 433) is a small, neat, stiff bush from the 
same region, with bright green foliage, and berries of brilliant 
glossy black with juice of intense purple. 
Lagotis ramalana (F 125) has not been distributed, as only a very 
few seeds were got. It grows, however, abundantly, in the 
highest earth-pans and earthy screes on the crests of the Min 
S'an and Thundercrown at 13,000-14,000 feet, where in June 
it produces, close to the stones, fluffy, blue wulfenious heads of 
not very startling flower, to be followed by the expansion of 
soft, rounded foliage. 
Leontopodium alpinum, the common type of the European Alps, is 
an abundant wayside weed over all the loess lands of South 
Kansu, but there are at least two subspecies or forms of much 
greater merit from more alpine stations. 
Leontopodium alpinum (F 219) makes very handsome clumps of 
very large long-pointed foliage, perfectly green and glossy, from 
which rise graceful 8-inch stems expending voluminous and 
splendid heads of Edelweiss. This form belongs to the upper 
alpine turf between 10,000 and 13,000 feet, and the seed was 
collected on Thundercrown. (? L. himalayanum ; in any case, a 
noble and stately form, the best Edelweiss by far that I know.) 
Leontopodium alpinum (F 410). — It is quite inferior to the last, 
occurring at much greater elevations, where, not in grass but in 
the finer scree, it forms cushions of blunt and perfectly woolly- 
grey foliage which is the plant's one beauty — for the flowers, 
as I have always seen them, are few-rayed dumpy stars of a 
dirty, iron-grey tone, borne on stems of 2 inches above the mass. 
[This Edelweiss has been distributed as F 392 ( = F 410).] 
Leptodermis oblonga var. (F 259) makes a neat, stiff little bush, 
not unlike a rigid Privet or Persian Lilac in effect — a suggestion 
completed by the thyrses of pink-mauve flowers that open in 
July, giving quite the idea of long-throated, five-rayed stars of 
Lilac. This species seems special to the Nan Ho Valley between 
Tan Ch'ang and Kwanting, where it sporadically occurs on the 
steepest gravelly banks and scarps amid other light, scant 
scrubs, but does not descend to the much hotter regions haunted 
by the next. 
