THE BOTANY OF THE CHITRAL RELIEF EXPEDITION, 1895. *6* 
P. Stiiartiif WalL, var. purpurea. Low 4 ri Pass, 11,500^— 
13,000* (Harriss), (Gatacre) ; Dorah Pass, 14,000' — 15,000' 
(Davidson). 
Androsace foliosa^ Duhy, (S. sarmentosa, Wall., var, poltosa of 
FI., Br. Ind.) Mirga, 9,500' (Harriss); Ziarat Valley, 7,000'; Guj&r 
Valley, 8,000' (Gatacre). 
* Androsace B.arrissiif sp. n. 
Perennial, Stems woody, much branched, lower naked portions 
concentrically leaf^scarred. Leaves imbricate, in compact squarrose 
rosettes terminating the branches, glabrous, ligulate, and somewhat 
boat-shaped, J inch long, acute and subspinulose, wider towards the 
base and with membranous edges, the younger ones pale green, 
lower chestnut-coloured changing to brown. Scapes about | inch 
long, solitary at the apex of the leaf rosettes, bearing umbels of 
2-4 flowers, clothed with short crisp grandular hairs. Bracts 2-— 5, 
rather unequal, boat shaped, entire, hairy. Pedicels J inch 
Calyx densely glandular hairy, turbinate, a little shorter than the 
pedicels, segments rounded, imbricate, about one fourth the length 
of the tube, smooth inside. Corolla white, 4 inch in diameter; tube 
globose, membranous, equally the calyx ; mouth constricted ijy a prom- 
inent ring ; segments spathulate, spreading, emarginate. Stamens 
attached about half-way down the corolla tube, on very short fila- 
ments ; anthers globose. Capsule turbinate, flat above; style inch. 
Seeds 8, oval-oblong. 
Above Ziarat, 11,000' (Harriss). A small woody shrub form- 
ing dense cushions. In habit it resembles A. Tapete, Maxim. ^ from 
which it differs by the flow'ers being in umbels, the glabrous 
leaves, the spathulate corolla-lobes, and twice the number of seeds. 
A, rotundifolia^ Haraw, var, glandtilosa, Jambalai (Harriss) 
Baraul Valley, 7,000' (Gatacre). 
A, rotutidifolia^ Hardw,, var„ macrccalyx, Lowdri Pass, 
10,000' (Harriss) ; Laram, 7,000' (Gatacre). 
A, sempervivoidcSf Jacquem,^ var, Ziarat, 10,000'; Lowdri 
Pass, 10,500'; Gujar, 11,000; (Harriss). 
A.villosafL, Chitrdl district, 11,000' (Harriss); Dorah Pass, 
14,000' — 15,000' (Davidson). 
Cortusa Matthioli^ Z. Lowiri Pass, 10,500' (Harriss) ; Ashreth 
Valley, 6,000' (Gatacre). 
Lysimachia japonica^ Thumb. Dir (Harriss). 
Anagallis arvensh^ L, Gujar Valley, 6, coo' (Gatacre). 
Samolus falerandi, L. Drosh, 4,000' — 5,00' \ Hamilton). 
