Communicated from the stove of the Botanic Garden at’ 
Liverpool by Messrs SHEPHERD, by whom it was received 
from Nepal under the name of B. hirta of Dr Watuicu. 
No such name, however, is published; and the able cultivator 
- just mentioned, rightly considers the plant to be the same as» 
‘the B. picta, figured by Sir James Smrru from a Hindu 
drawing sent by Dr Bucanan Hamitton. That.-gentle- 
man first found it on rocks above Nepal, and states it to be the 
: Mungarchaci of the a or Hindu conquerors of Ne- 
pal. 
tiga lovely plant, elegant both in its Saher and foliage, 
and well deserving of cultivation in our stoves. 
Fig. 1. Section of the Germen of B. picta. Fig. 2. One of the ssa Fie, 2.” 
One of the processes of the germen which forms the pubescence, —All. 
more OF less brag ified. 
