Botanical Magazine 106 - 1880.pdf - hibiscus.org

it ascends to 12,000 feet. The specimens drawn were
raised from Sikkim seed communicated by Dr. King, of the
Calcutta Botanical Gardens, and flowered at Kew in June
of the present year.
DESCR. A pubescent or hirsute herb, in a small state
either six to ten inches high, with simple scape-like leafy
stems, and numerous radical leaves ; or tall, often two feet
high, with no radical leaves and a branched leafy stem.
Leaves, radical when present usually four to eight inches
long, oblanceolate, narrowed into a rather long petiole,
distantly toothed, three- to five-nerved ; cauline ovate-
lanceolate from a broad sessile and often subauricled or
semi-amplexicaul base, acuminate, erect or recurved. Heads
solitary on the ends of long peduncles, two to two and a
lialf inches in diameter, very bright purple, disk yellow.
Involucre broadly hemispherical ; bracts slender, pubescent
or fomentóse, ciliate. Ligules three-fourths to one inch
long, in two or three series, very slender, tube glabrous.
Dish-flower glabrous. Achenes small, flattened, slightly
silky ; pappus scanty, hairs scabrid, with an obscure ring
of small outer ones.•J. D. II.
Fig. 1, Ray-flower ; 2, its style-arms ; 3, disk-flower ; 4, hair of pappus ; 5, style-
arms of disk-flower; C, involucre cut open showing the receptacle:•all bul fig. 1
enlarged.