NOVELTIES OFFERED FOR THE FIRST TIME DY WILLIAM BULL, F.L.S. 3 
This plant is beautifully illustrated in Plate XIX. of Illustrations of Himalayan Plants from Mr. 
Cathcart’s Drawings. It is thus described by Dr. Hooker : “ The individual plants of Rheum nob He 
are upwards of a yard high, and form conical towers of the most delicate straw-coloured, shining, 
semi-transparent, concave, imbricating bracts, the upper of which have pink edges ; the large bright 
glossy shiny green radical leaves, with red petioles and nerves, forming a base to the whole. On 
turning up the bracts, the beautiful membranous fragile pink stipules are seen, like red silver-paper, 
and within these again the short -branched panicles of flowers.” The plant occurs in Sikkim, at an 
elevation of from 13,000 to 15,000 feet. “ I first saw it,” remarks Dr. Hooker in the work above 
alluded to, u from a distance of fully a mile, dotting the black cliffs of the Lachen valley at 14,000 
feet elevation, in inaccessible situations, and was quite at a loss to conceive what it could be, nor 
was it till I had turned back the curious bracteal leaves and examined the flowers, that I was per- 
suaded of its being a true Rhubarb.” Seed of this remarkable plant is now offered for the first time. 
In sealed Packets, 2s. 6d. each. 
RHEUM NOBILE. 
