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Seeds ellipsoid or oboroid, 2^ times as long as broad, little narrowed at the base, pmc^ 



ticulate, not papillose, coma fulvous. 



Var. sericeum, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 6325 (sp.) ; pubescence of the stem and leaves 



densely white silky (not tomentose). E. tomcntosnm, Vent. Hort. Cels. t. 90.— Djs- 



trib. the same as that of the typical E. hirstctmn ; into which this variety graduates. * 

 Var. Iwtum, Wall. Cat. 6329 (sp.) in part; middle cauline leaves much smaller 

 often about 1 in. not semi-ample.xicuul at the base little pubescent, no white silky 

 hairs on the plant.— Kashmir ; Jacquemo7it. Chumba, alt. 3000 ft.; C, B, Clarke, 

 Kumaon; Waliich; near Almora, alt. 5000 ft.; Strachey ^ Wlnterbottotn. Jul- 

 lundur, alt. 1000 ft; a B. Clarke.— This plant has been from the leaves supposed 

 near E, tetragonum ; but the examples show the stigmas decisively spreading, so that 

 it is either a var. of E, hirsiitum or a new species. 



' 5. E. parvmorum, Schrehr, DC. Prodr. iii. 43; middle cauline leaves 

 mostly opposite sessile oblong-lanceolate hairy, broadest part of the leaf m its 

 basal third portion. Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 747. 



Western Himalaya ; EdgewortJi ; 

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Stem 2-3 ft., round, without lines, pubescent and ^-ith much crisped white hair. 

 Middle cauline leaves 1^-2 by ^-^ in., dentate, pubescent over both surfaces, ^^^p 

 green, oblong, acute, in the bud mucronate. Petals usually smaller than those of £'. 

 hirsiitum but are | in. in the Himalayan plant. Stigmas 4, distinct, spreading but 

 hardly revolute. Capsule 2-3^ in., sparingly hairy, lower peduncles ^1 in- 

 ellipsoid or obovoid, 2^ times as long as broad, little narrowed at the base, pune- 

 tulate, not papillose, coma M\om^,— Seed exactly as that of E, hirsutum; punctulate 

 by raised points, but these papillae excessively minute. \, 



Vab. vestltum, Beuth. in Wall. Cat. 6327 (sp.) ; stem and leaves with fulvous 



shaggy hair, the stem itself somewhat glaucous. — Nipal; Waliich. • : ' 



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6329, belongs mainly to Fl hirmtuvi \ but some of it belongs hero and some 



baria: but in all these the style is unmistakably clavate, not at all (or 

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 peduncle, seed, rather narrowly ellip.soid prominently papilloB^.— From Kasti 



Sikkim, alt, 6000-9000 ft.: abundant about Dalhousie. 



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 what decurrent in lineSy hut the stem not clearly quadrangular, 



6. E. roseum, Schreb.\ Boiss. FL Orient, ii. 749; stem uniformly iairy 

 or with hairj' lines, leaves petioled (shortly in nearly all the Indian forms) n-om 

 ovate to narrow-lanceolate, seeds obovoid not fusiform nor gradually narrowea 

 at the top. 



Temperate HniALATA, alt. 5000-11,000 ft; common.— Distrib. West Asia an 

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Var. indlcum ; middle cauline leaves lanceolate or OA^ate with crisped P^l^^^^^"^^^^ 

 the midrib beneath, lateral nerves slightly raised glabrous or hairy, capsules ^^^!!^^j^. 

 long-pedicellcd, seed punctukte points raised most minutely.— Baltistan and ivas 

 mir to Kumaon, alt. 5000-11,000 ft., coriimon. — S^^m 2 ft., usually bairy all rou , 

 somptimes with four well-marked lines, 

 times ternate, sometimes glabrous beneath except 



liairs on the primary nerves also ; petiole often less than | in. but sometnues "^"'.^ 

 iin. Peduncle of the lower capsules often 1 in. or moro. Coma of the seed very 



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petiole of iin, or thareabout constitute E. viontamim var. himalayense of ^"^**^, i^V ' 

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