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in long terminal spikes, E. spicatum, Zamk. Diet il 373: DC. Prodr, 

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Temperate Western Himalaya, alt. 8000-12,000 ft. ; from Kashmir and Baltis- 

 tan to GrRWHAL. — Distrib. Western Asia, Europe, North America. 



Glabrous or nearly so, except the calyx-tube which is covered with close white 

 tomentum. Stem 2-4 ft. Leaves often 4-6 by J in., all scatterpd, nearly sessile, 

 acute, entire or obscurely denticulate. Spike of flowers soon naked, bracts narrow, 

 caducous. Calyx-segments lanceolate, acuminate, purplish, subpetaloid, free to the 

 base. Petals i-| in., rose-purple, obovate, clawed. Shjle somowhat hairy above the 

 base; stigmas 4, distinct, spreading. Capsule 2^-3^ in,, closely pubescent. Seed 

 narrowly obovoid, smooth, coma fulvous. 



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beneath reticulating nenes prominent primary nerves diverging at acute angles 



from the midrib; peduncles distant in the axils of leaves that are not bractiform 

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SiKKiM ; alt. 10,000-14,000 ft. ; Lachoong and Kongra Lama ; J. D. K 

 Stem round, uniformly pubescent, apparently of the height of that of E, angusti- 

 folium. Leaves 4 by ^ in., all scattered, nearly sessile, minutely denticulate, acute. 

 Calyx -segm.ents broad-lanceolate, acuminnte, purplish, subpetaloid, free to the base. 

 Petals ^— I in., rose-purple, obovate. Style densely hairy above the base ; stigmas 

 ^j distinct, spreading. Capsule (not ripe) 3 in. on a peduncle 1^ in.— This species has 

 leaves somewhat like those of E, angttstifolium but the inflorescence of E, latifolium. 



40 ; leaves oblong narrowed 



3. 



Linn,) DC. Drodr, in. 



. latifolium, 



at both ends glabrous or minutely pubescent without reticulating veins, pedun- 

 cles distant in the axils of leaves that are not bractiform nor caducous, E. spe- 

 ciosum, Dme. in Jacq. Voy. Bot, t. 69. E. Geraraianum, Wall. Cat. 6320. 



. Alpine Western Himaulta; alt. 11,000-14,000 ft. Kashmir; Jacqmmont, C. 



,,^' Clarke. Sikmork; Gerard, Edgeworth. Kumaon; Strachey ^ Winterbottom. — 

 ■DiSTRiB, Dahuria, Altai, Arctic Asia, Europe and America. 



-_, "^he typical plant is 1 ft. high and glabrous except the calyx-tube; some of the 

 Himalayan examples have the stem pubescent apparently much taller and the leaves 



, minutely pubescent. Leaves 1^-3 by J-f in., scattered and opposite, entire or very 

 obscurely denticulate, obtuse rarely somewhat acute. CaJyx-segmmits broad -Janceo- 



: ^te, acuminate, purplish, subpetaloid, free to the basf». Pei^aZ^ ^| in., rose -purple. 

 pbovate. Style with a few scattered hairs above the base ; stigmas 4, distinct, spread- 

 ing- Capsule 3 in., closely pubescent. Seeds narrowly obovoid, smooth, coma 

 Wvous. 



Sect. II. Ziyslmacbion. Flowers regular. Stafnens and style erect. 



* Stigma distinctly i-cleft with spi'eading lobes. 



4- B. hirsutuxn, Linn. ; DC Prodr. iii. 42 ; hairy, middle cauline leaves 

 <^Ppo.site or alternate sessile obovate-lauceolate narrowed nearly to the base 

 denticulate-serrulate. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 746. E. serratum, Jacq. Journ, 



^ Temperate Western Himalaya ; alt. 5000-7000 ft. ; from Kashmir to Kumaos ; 



^^y\ Madden, Jacquemont, T. Thomso7i, &c.-'I>isTaiB. Europe, Africa, Asia from 

 the Himalaya northwards and westwards. 



:"^'. Stem 2-5 ft., round, uniformly hairy with glandular pubescence, and with scattered 

 W white hairs numerous towards the ends of the branches. Middle cauline leaves 

 ^ually opposite, often 3 in. or more by | in., sessile, semi-amplexicaul but not decur- 

 yent as lines down the stem, green and softly pubescent on both surfaces. Sepals 

 |J'*'en, oblong, acute in the expanded flower, in aestivation mucronate. Petals ^ in. 

 Sligmas 4, distinct, spreading. Capsule 2-3^ in., hairy, lower peduncles ^-1 in. 



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