TaB. 7735. 
PEDICULARIS, curvirss. 
Native of the Sikkim Himalaya. 
Nat. Ord. ScropuvuLaRine£a.—Tribe HUPHRASIER. 
Genus Pepicutaris, Linn; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. ii. p. 978.) 
Pepicutaris (Rhyncolopha) curvipes; caule gracili primo suberecto demum 
elongato decumbente pubescente simplici v. basi ramoso, foliis sparsis 
petiolatis ovatis oblongisve pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis segmentis 3-5- 
jugis cum impari oblongis obtusis marginibus lobulatis crenatisve glabris 
puberulisve, petiolo lamina breviore, floribus axillaribus fere racemosis ad 
1 poll. longis, pedicellis erectis calyce longioribus fructiferis decurvis, 
calycis tubo oblongo antice triente fisso puberulo, limbi lobulis 2 auricn- — 
leformibus obovatis crenatis cum tertio postico dentiformi interjecto, 
corolle tubo calycem zquante recto cylindraceo, labio sessili roseo 
$-poll. lato paullo latius quam longo 3-lobo membranaceo, lobis lateralibus 
rotundatis intermedio parvo rotundato emarginato, galea arcuato-incurva 
inflata puberula erecta dein medium versus incurva et in rostrum decurvum 
apice integrum lobum lateralem labii spectantem attenuata, staminibus 
medio tubo corolle insertis, filamentis. glaberrimis, capsulis pendulis 4-4 
poll. longis oblongis faleatis calycis tubo ad medium vestitis, seminibus 
oe paucis ellipsoideis vix reticulatis. 
_ P. eurvipes, Hook. f. F/. Brit. Ind. vol. iv. p. 316, Maxim. Mél. Biol. pars xii. 
p. 919. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxv. (1890) p. 51. Prain in 
Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, vol. iii. p. 151, t. 35, fig, A. 
_ he genus Pedicularis is widely spread in the temperate 
and alpine regions of India. Thirty-seven species are de- 
-_ seribed in the “ Flora of British India,” published in 1884, a 
__ number increased to sixty-nine by Dr. Prain in his admirable 
memoir on the genus published in the Annals of the Royal 
_ Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, in 1891; this great accession 
being mainly due to the discovery of new species by the 
activity of collectors for those gardens in the Eastern 
Himalaya, Assam, and Burma. P. curvipes was discovered 
by OU. B. Clarke at Tumbok, alt. ten thousand feet, in the 
_ Sikkim Himalaya, and was subsequently collected by him 
on Jakvo in the Naga hills, bordering Assam on the south, 
at a little lower elevation (nine thousand feet to nine 
_ thousand five hundred feet). On both occasions fruiting 
Specimens alone were obtained, which led to its being 
referred (doubtfully) to a wrong section of the genus, in 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1900, 
