Tas. 4599. 
PEDICULARIS mo tuts. 
Soft-leaved Indian Lousewort. 
Nat. Ord. ScRoPHULARINEZ.—DIDYNAMIA ANGIOSPERMIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx tubulosus vel campanulatus, antice et interdum postice plus 
minus fissus, apice 2—5-dentatus, dentibus raro equalibus, lateralibus connatis 
vel liberis, cristato-dentatis vel integris, postico seepissime minore integriore vel 
integerrimo ‘aut deficiente. Corolle tubus cylindricus vel ad faucem paulo am- 
pliatus; galea compressa obtusa integra vel antice sub apice utrinque dente 
aucta vel in rostrum truncatum vel bidentatum producta; labium inferius basi 
suberectum, supra bicristatum, lobis 3 erectis vel seepius patentibus vel deflexis, 
lateralibus rotundatis, intermedio minore vel rarius quali, per estivationem 
extimo. Stamina sub galea didynama; filamenta omnia vel 2 postica saltem 
basi seepius pilosa (pilis tamen in eadem specie non constantibus); anthere 
transverse, per paria vel omnes arcte approximate, loculis equalibus muticis vel 
in sola P. grandiflora aristatis. Capsula compressa, ovata vel lanceolata, plus 
minus falcata vel obliqua preesertim ad apicem; postice ab apice versus basin et 
antice seepius brevius loculicide dehiscens, valvulis medio septiferis. Semina in 
parte inferiore capsule lateraliter -affixa, ovoidea, majuscula, ¢esta appressa vel 
laxiuscula, foveolato-rugosa vel leviuscula. Hméryo parvus vel elongatus. 
Radicula ad apicem fructus spectans.—Herbee plereque montane utriusque orbis, in 
hemispherio australi perpauce, in Siberia et in terris arcticis numerose. Folia 
alterna vel verticillata rarissime subopposita, semel pluriesve pinnatim divisa vel 
rarius simpliciter dentata, a radicalibus in floralia deerescentia. Flores spicati vel 
rarius racemosi, ebracteolati. Folia floralia bracteaformia, integra vel incisa, rarius 
caulinis subconformia. 
Pepicunaris (§ Verticillatee Erostres) mollis; erecta elata ramosa hirsuta, foliis 
semel bisve pinnatifidis, laciniis oblongo-lanceolatis inciso-dentatis, spicis 
gracilibus interruptis, calycis dentibus oblongis cristatis, corolla tubo vix 
exserto, galea anguste oblonga recta antice rectilinea labium superante. 
Pepicunaris mollis. Wall. Cat. n. 415. Benth. Scroph. Ind. p. 53, in De Cand. 
Prodr. v. 10. p. 564. 
Mr. Bentham well observes of this Pedicularis, “Species nulli 
proxime affinis :” the form of the corolla is extremely different 
from any other of the genus, and we are glad of the opportunity 
of figuring so rare a plant from living specimens. It has nowhere 
been found except by Dr. Wallich in Gossain Than, Nepal, and in 
the high mountains of Sikkim-Himalaya by Dr. Hooker: from 
seeds sent by the latter our plants were raised in the Royal Gar- 
dens of Kew. 
Descr. Root fusiform, sparingly fibrous (perennial ?). Stem 
erect, simple, about a foot high, terete, furrowed, clothed, as are 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1851. 
