. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. 214 NORMAN K. B. ROBSON fascicles each with c. 25 stamens, longest c. 15 mm long, 0-65-0-75 x petals; anthers bright yellow. Ovary 4-6-5 x 2-5-4-5 mm, ellipsoid; styles 7-5-12 mm long, 1-8-2-5 x ovary, free, erect, sometimes outcurved near apex; stigmas capitate. Capsule 8-10 - 5-6 mm, ± broadly ovoid. Seeds dark reddish-brown, c. 0-9 mm long, narrowly cylindric, not carinate, shallowly linear-reticulate. 2n = ? On steep banks, rocky hillsides and open, dry situations; 900-1900 m. Nepal (central, in Kathmandu region; also east, one rec
. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Botany. 214 NORMAN K. B. ROBSON fascicles each with c. 25 stamens, longest c. 15 mm long, 0-65-0-75 x petals; anthers bright yellow. Ovary 4-6-5 x 2-5-4-5 mm, ellipsoid; styles 7-5-12 mm long, 1-8-2-5 x ovary, free, erect, sometimes outcurved near apex; stigmas capitate. Capsule 8-10 - 5-6 mm, ± broadly ovoid. Seeds dark reddish-brown, c. 0-9 mm long, narrowly cylindric, not carinate, shallowly linear-reticulate. 2n = ? On steep banks, rocky hillsides and open, dry situations; 900-1900 m. Nepal (central, in Kathmandu region; also east, one record). Map Map 9 Sect. 3 Ascyreia: 2. H. cordifolium •, 3. H. podocarpoides O NEPAL. Central: Sheopuri, N. of Kathmandu, 1875 m, , Schilling 302 (K); Katunji Ridge, 1050 m, , Gardner 194 (BM, E); Tribeni, 1500 m, 1973, Dobremez 1792 (BM); near Kathmandu, Sundarijal Waterfall, 1600 m, 1963, Hara, Kanai & Kurosawa (TI); Gurka Himalaya, N. of town of Gurka, ± 1050 m, , Schilling 2656 (BM). East: hills N. of Dharan, Schilling (BM). CULTIVATED. Specimens seen from India (Calcutta, nineteenth century) and England (1980). H. cordifolium is a relict species which occupies a critical position, as regarded both morphology and distribution, for the understanding of the evolution of the genus. Ancestrally it is linked (to the south) with H. mysurense; morphologically it is the nearest species in sect. 3. Ascyreia to sect. 10. Olympia (radiating from south- western Anatolia) and its derivatives (sects 11-16), and sect. 17. Hirtella (radiating from eastern Anatolia) and its relatives (sects 18-19) (see p. 325); and it has a near relative in the Himalaya itself (H. podocarpoides). Hundley & KoKo's record of//. cordifolium from Burma (Lace, 1961: 19) should be treated with reserve in the absence of a confirmatory specimen. It could be an error for 6. H. pachyphyllum. H. cordifolium is easily distinguished from all other speci
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