SCROPHULARIACE^. 305 



PEDICULARIS. F.B.I. Lii. 



Perennial herbs with lower leaves usually pinnately 

 lobed or divided, and axillary two-lipped monopetalous 

 flowers, characterised by the calyx being split down the 

 middle of the upper and lower lip, and the upper lip of 

 the corolla high and compressed and so much narrower 

 than the spreading lower. Stamens four, didynamous, 

 with transverse anthers meeting under the upper lip. 

 Capsule compressed ovate or lanceolate, often bent, open- 

 ing loculicidally. Seeds numerous, of various shapes, 

 with close or loose, smooth or wrinkled skin. 



Species 250, in Europe, Asia, and both Americas. Eng, 

 Lousewort, Red Rattle ; Ger. Sumpflaiisekraut. Allied to 

 RHiNANTHUS Yellow Rattle ; Fr. Cocote ; Ger. Klapper groote, 

 Ratelaar. 



Pcdicularis zcylanica Benth. ; F.B.I, iv 317, LII 37 ; 

 Pink Rattle or Nilgiri Lousewort. Stem l^ to 2 feet 

 green pubescent. Leaves 2 by J^ to Yz inch, or even 

 only I hy Ye inch, oblanceolate-oblong, cut about half 

 way to the midrib into narrow rounded lobes, which 

 are again lobed, and often also curled downwards, 

 reminding one of some ferns, dull grass green in colour, 

 pubescent. Flowers in the upper axils : pedicels Y> inch, 

 calyx-tube Yz inch, villous, cylindrical with oblique 

 mouth. Corolla pink, exserted /^ to ?4 inch beyond the 

 calyx; upper lip arched, compressed, notched; lower 

 spreading forwards, three-lobed ; tube short. Stamens 

 four glabrous ; anther lobes with acute bases. Capsule 

 ^ inch. t. 201. Wight Ic. t. 1419. 



Common in damp places in the open. Pulneys : on the 

 downs below and above Kodaikanal, flowering May to Septem- 

 ber. Nilgiris : near Ootacamund to Kotagiri. Fyson 320, 

 1073, 1845. Bourne 413, 1096,"^ 5204. 



Gen. Dist. Mysore and hills of South India and Ceylon. 

 Except for being erect and taller this is very like P. sylvatica of Europe, 

 f^Hg. Procumbent Lousewort, 

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