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38991 to 39101— Continued. 



39028. Ophiopogon intermedius Don. Liliacese. 



Distribution. — A low, herbaceous perennial with grasslike leaves and 

 a slender scape of small white flowers, found on the temperate slopes of 

 the Himalayas and on the Khasi Hills in India and in Ceylon. 



Of possible value for cultivation in shady locations where grasses 

 refuse to grow. 



39029. Oxybia digyna (L.) Hill. Polygonacea?. 



" This species is commonly known as the mountain sorrel. It is a small 

 plant with an acid flavor which occurs in the alpine Himalayas at alti- 

 tudes of 10,000 feet. It is found in western Tibet up to an altitude of 

 17,500 feet and is distributed to the mountains of Europe, north Asia, 

 and America. This plant is sometimes eaten as a cooling medicine, and 

 in Ohamba the leaves, which have a pleasant sorrel taste, are eaten raw." 

 (Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of India.) 



39030. Paknassia sp. Saxifragacese. 



39031. Pedicularis clarkei Hook. f. Scrophulariacese. 



" This more or less hirsute herb is found growing in the alpine Sikkim 

 Himalayas at altitudes ranging between 12,000 and 13,000 feet. The stem 

 is 16 to 20 inches in height and sometimes as thick as the middle finger. 

 The corolla tube, which is rather longer than the calyx, is of a reddish 

 or purplish color. The lower lip of the corolla is small, narrow, and 

 shorter than the upper." (Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 4, P- 810.) 



39032. Pedicularis flexuosa Hook. f. 



Distribution. — An erect or decumbent herb growing 2 feet high, with 

 pinnatifid leaves and bearing leafy spikes of rosy flowers, found on the 

 alpine slopes of the Sikkim Himalayas in northern India at an altitude 

 of 10,000 to 13,000 feet. 



39033. Pedicularis lachnoglossa Hook. f. 



Distribution. — An erect herb with a simple stem, narrow pinnatisect 

 leaves, and racemes of small red-purple flowers, found at an elevation of 

 14,000 feet in the Lachen Valley of the Sikkim Himalayas in northern 

 India. 



39034. Pedicularis longiflora Rudolph. 



Distribution. — A low herbaceous perennial with pinnatifid leaves and 

 yellow flowers, found in the vicinity of Lake Baikal in Siberia. 



39035. Pedicularis megalantiia Don. 



Distribution. — A low herb with pinnatifid leaves and lax racemes of 

 yellow or rose-purple flowers, found on the temperate and subalpine 

 slopes of the Himalayas at an altitude of 7,000 to 15,000 feet, from Kash- 

 mir to Sikkim, in northern India. 



39036. Pedicularis mollis Wallich. 



Distribution. — An herbaceous annual 3 feet high with spikes of dark 

 purple flowers, found in the alpine Himalayas in northern India and in 

 Tibet at an altitude of 10,000 to 14,000 feet. 



39037. Pedicularis sciiizorrhyncha Prain. 



39038. Pentagonia physalodes (L.) Hiern. Solanacese. 

 (Nicandra physaloides Gaertn.) 



