Pedicular is.] cm. SCROPHULARINE.E. (J. D. Hooker.) 311 



than the flowers ; flowers f in. long. Calyx oblong, villous, lobes rather long and 

 slender entire or crenate. Corolla red or purple, tube rather longer than the calyx ; 

 lower lip small, narrow, shorter than the upper. Capsule as in P. lacJinoglossa. Seeds 

 large, very irregularly obtusely angled and compressed, % in. long, deeply reticulate, 

 pale. 



17. P. lachnoglossa, Hook. /: ; stem simple strict 1-2-leaved, 

 radical leaves petioled linear^lanceolate pin nati sect, segments very many 

 and regular equidistant linear crenate, raceme strict, flowers distant, bracts 

 lanceolate longer than the calyx, upper lip inflated woolly with a straight 

 horizontal or deflexed beak lower with 3 narrow lobes. Pedicularis n. 32 

 Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen Valley, alt. 14,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Rootstoclc perennial ? crowned with slender membranous leaf-sheaths. Stem as 

 thick as a crow-quill. Radical leaves 4-6 by ^-| in., petiole and rachis slender, seg- 

 ments 30-40, at regular intervals, T ' g in. broad. Racemes 4-8 in. ; bracts slender, cre- 

 nulate, erect ; pedicels very short ; flowers appressed to the rachis, | in. long, red- 

 purple. Calyx | in., glabrous, oblong, lobes lanceolate not crested. Corolla-tube not 

 exceeding the calyx; upper lip sickle-shaped inflated in the middle, beak straight 

 much larger and longer than the lower, which has 3 small obovate acute ciliate lobes. 

 Capsule |-| in., lanceolate, finely acuminate, twice as long as the calyx. Seeds f in. 

 long, subellipsoid, base appendaged, dark, faintly striate and punctate. 



18. P. excelsa, HooJc.f.; stem glabrous very tall branched leafy, leaves 

 large alternate petioled bipinnatifid or pinnatisect below, pinnae linear-oblong 

 distant, lobes or segments irregularly toothed, racemes long strict many-fld. 

 pubescent, calyx small glabrous teeth very small, upper lip of corolla with 

 villous margins produced into a slender incurved tail longer than the lower 

 tip entire. Pedicularis n. 27, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f.fyT. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Yeumtong, in the Lachen Valley, alt, 12,000 ft., J. D. H. 



Stem 2-4 ft., as thick as the middle finger below, shining, hollow ; branches ascend- 

 ing, slender, long, incurved. Leaves scattered, flaccid, 6-12 by 2-5 in. ; pinnae spread- 

 ing, 1-2J in. long, rachis puberulous winged with lobules between the segments above, 

 naked and slender below ; petiole 2-4 in., slender. Racemes afoot long and under, 

 rather dense-fld. ; bracts pinnatifid, small, pedicels \-\ in. ; flowers small, ^ in. long. 

 Calyx in., spathaceous, broadly oblong, split to the base, mouth oblique, minutely 

 toothed. Corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx ; upper lip'with an oblong inflated 

 base usually villous along the margins contracted into an incurved tail ; lower lip 

 narrow, with a small rounded median lobe. Capsule in. long, oblong-ovate, 4 times 

 as long as the calyx, tip rounded with an apiculus at one side. Seeds -fa in., black, 

 minutely reticulate. I regret having no note of the colour of the flower of this majestic 

 species, which was, I believe, red-purple. 



Tube of the corolla not or very little longer than the calyx ; upper lip 

 quite glabrous. 



19. P. macrantha, Klotzsch in Seise Pr. Wald. Sot. 107, t. 58 ; 

 nearly glabrous or hairy, stem erect or ascending short or long leafy, leaves 

 radical and alternate long-petioled linear pinnatitid or pinnatisect segments 

 short ovate or oblong toothed or pinnatifid with acute teeth, racemes short 

 dense-fld. or the lower or all the flowers axillary, bracts leaf-like, flowers 

 large pink, calyx-lobes crested, corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx, upper 

 lip sickle-shaped tumid with a short beak, lower very large. Pedicularis 

 n. 7, Herb. Strach. Sf Winterb. 



WESTEKN and CENTRAL HIMALAYA ; Nepal, Hoffmeister, J. Scully ; Garwhal, at 

 Kulhara, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey # Winterbottom. 



Root of many fleshy stout fusiform fibres. Stem 4-24 in., sometimes as thick as 



