Tas. 7182, 
PEDICULARIS meaanantaa. 
Native of the Eastern Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. ScropHULARINEZ.—Tribe EUPHRASIEA. 
Genus PepicutaRis, Linn.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pi. vol. ii. p. 978.) 
PEDICULARIS megalantha ; erecta, elata, puberula y. villogula, foliis alternis 
petiolatis ovato- v. lineari-oblongis caulinis pinnatifidis lobis crenulatis, 
calycis tubo cylindraceo v. subinflato nervoso, lobis 5 subaequalibus v. 
inzequalibus rotundatis cristato-crenatis, corolle rosex v. purpures tubo 
gracillimo calyce 2—4-plo longiore, limbi labio superiore annulariin cornu 
elongatum incurvum producto, inferiore latissimo concavo 3-lobo, lobo 
medio angusto, filamentis sparse pilosis. 
P. megalantha, Don Prodr. 94; Wall. Cat. 411/1; Benth. in DO. Prodr. vol. x. 
p. 564; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 312; Maximov. in Mel. Biol. 
x. p. 82, et xii. p. 793 ; Prain in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. vol. lviii. p. 269. 
This noble Pedicularis is one of the ornaments of the 
subalpine regions of the Eastern Himalaya, where I found 
it rearing its head above long grass in Sikkim in 1849, at 
eleven thousand to thirteen thousand feet above the sea. 
It was discovered by Wallich in Central Nepal in 1820, 
and specimens sent to the late Mr. Lambert were described 
by Don in the ‘‘ Flora Nepalensis”” in 1825. It was dis- 
tributed by Wallich under the above name, and is one of , 
two plants or varieties included under No. 411 of his 
Catalogue. Of these No. 411/1 is a Nepal plant with rosy 
flowers, identical with this ; the other, Wallich’s No. 411/2, 
is a yellow-flowered species hitherto supposed to be a 
variety, and published as P. megalantha in the “ Flore des 
Serres” (t. 948). It has a different distribution, namely © 
from Kumaon westward to Kashmir, at considerably lower 
elevations than P. megalantha affects (seven thousand to 
twelve thousand feet), and has not hitherto been found in 
the Eastern Himalaya. It has a shorter corolla-tube, and _ 
there are differences in the form of the corolla-lobes, but — 
it is difficult to detect these in specimens that have been 
- dried. It may be the P. Hoffmeisteri of Klotzsch, figured 
‘ in the Botany of the Voyage of Prince Waldemar in the 
Aveust Ist, 1890. om : 
