Lagotis. | CX. SELAGINEX. (J. D. Hooker.) 559 
Rootstock slender. Leaves few, cut to the midrib; lobes linear-oblong, widened 
towards their obtuse or notched tips; petiole 2-3 in. Scape slender, shorter than the 
leaves, with a few leafy bracts at the tip. Heads 1-14 in. diam., like a double 
rose; outer bracts j in., orbicular-obovate, concave (when dry membranous), inner 
narrower. Flowers } the length of the bract. Sepals obovate-oblong, one obtuse, 
the other 2-toothed. Filaments slender, as long as the upper lip ; anthers small for 
the genus. Style included, stigma notched. Fruit 4 in. long, ellipsoid. 
2. L. decumbens, Ruprecht Sert. Thianschan, 64; leaves long- 
petioled ovate or oblong coarsely crenate, scape few-leaved, bracts much 
larger than and concealing the flowers broadly ovate densely imbricate 
forming an oblong head. 
WESTERN TIBET ; Karakoram, alt. 16-18,000 ft., Thomson, Henderson; Kara- 
kash Mts., Stewart.— DisTRIB, Thianschan Mts. 
Rootstock small. Leaves 1-1} in., obtuse, base cuneate ; petiole 2-4 in., tapering 
downwards. Flowering stems ascending, longer than the leaves, with a few leafy 
bracts near the top. Spike 14-2 in.; bracts 4 in. long, entire, obtuse, membranous. 
Flowers à in. long. Sepals as in L. globosa. Lower corolla-lip 3- or 4-cleft. 
Anthers subsessile. Style short, included, stigma notched. Fruit narrowly oblong. 
** Calyx very large, spathaceous, hooded, concealing the corolla, acute, 
nerves meeting in the tip. 
SM . al 
773. X. Clarkei, Hook. f.; stem ascending leafy, leaves elliptic-ovate 
acute irregularly toothed, spike elongate, calyx longer than the bract. 
SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Yakla, alt. 16,000 ft., Clarke. . . 
Stems or branches 6-8 in., stout, flexuous. Leaves, radical long-petioled ; cauline 
2-3 in., sessile ; nerves many, strong, reticulate. Spike recurved; bracts i in., 
toothed. Calyx twice as long, ovate-lanceolate, complicate, open by a narrow slit in 
front nearly to the base, veined. Corolla half as long, lips very short, subequal, 
recurved, upper dilated at the hooded tip, lower obtusely 3-lobed P Filaments adnate 
to the margins of the upper lip. Ovary slender ; style exserted, stigma 2-fid.—A very 
remarkable plant, more caulescent than its congeners. ‘The specimens are very bad, 
and the description of the corolla may want correction. I found at Tungu (in N. 
Sikkim) what 1 take to be young plants of this, judging from the reticulate nervation 
of the leaves, 
*** Oa lyx spathaceous, dorsally plane, 2-nerved ; nerves ending apart in 
the terminal lobes or teeth. 
4. L. glauca, Gaertn. in Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. 533, t. 18, f. 2; 
stolons 0, leaves oblong ovate or obovate toothed or crenate petiole very 
Stout, cauline obtuse, spike elongate, bracts obovate or elliptic equalling or 
onger or shorter than the flowers. Marimovicz in Bull. Imp. Acad. St. 
Petersb, xxvii. (1881) 523, excl. syn. L. decumbens. Gymnandra Stelleri, Herd. 
Ind. Or. HL. f. & T. 
_ ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 11-15,000 ft., Royle, &c.—DisTRIB. Mts. of Central and 
N. Asia, and Arctic Asia and America. . . . 
Rootstock stout, with thick fleshy root-fibres. Leaves fleshy, radical 2-3 in., vari- 
able in breadth and toothing, narrowed into the very stout petiole ; cauline } to 1} in., 
i-amplexicaul, often quite entire. Flowering stems several, 3-10 in. high, decumbent 
elow, stout, leafy above. Spike 2-5 in.; bracts 4-4 in. Calyx nearly as long as the 
Corolla-tube or ' shorter ; lobes minutely fimbriate. Corol/a-tube rather slender, 
tips very variable. 
AR. cashmeriana; radical leaves elliptic or oblong obtuse, bracts ovate toothed 
rather longer than the calyx, corolla deep blue much longer than the calyx, lower lip 
“-cleft, or 3-cleft with the mid-lobe narrowest, filaments from half as long to as 
