312 cm. SCROPHULARINE^B. (J. D. Hooker.) \_Pedicularis. 



a swan's qnill. Leaves 4-6 by g f in., flaccid ; segments distant ; rachis winged or 

 not ; petiole often as long as the blade. Flowers 1 in. long ; pedicels -1 in. ; bracts 

 often exceeding the flowers and bipinnatifid. Calyx turgid, in. long, lobes large, 

 nerves distinct. Corolla with the upper lip large broad, at the base erect or reflexed, 

 then horizontal with an incurved short beak ; lower 1^ in. broad, lobes orbicular, 

 the median smallest. Capsule (unripe) f in. long, oblong-lanceolate, tip exserted rounded 

 with a lateral point. Resembles P. megalantha, but the short corolla- tube and large 

 upper lip are very different. 



20. P. Elwesiij HooJc. f. ; glabrous or puberulous, stem stout decum- 

 bent or ascending, few-leaved, leaves radical and alternate all shortly petioled 

 linear pinnatifid or piunatisect, lobes oblong short obtuse coarsely crenate 

 or lobulate, racemes short, flowers very large purple, calyx nerveless pubes- 

 cent lobes crested, corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx, upper lip inflated 

 sickle-shaped with an incurved beak much smaller than the very broad lower 

 lip. Pedicularis n. 24, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



SIZKIM HIMALAYA ; Lachen Valley, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. H., Elwes: 

 Rootstock perennial ? Stem as thick as a goose-quill, rarely 1 ft., curved. Radical 

 leaves numerous, 5-7 by |-| in., puberulous beneath ; petiole short, |-| in., stout ; 

 cauline similar. Racemes very short; bracts foliaceous, pedicels -^ in. ; flowers \\ in. ' 

 long. Calyx -J in., cylindric, puberulous, split way down, mouth with 2 crenate lobes. 

 Corolla dark-purple, upper lip with the inflated portion suddenly contracted into the 

 short incurved beak ; lower erect enclosing the upper, 1 in. broad, of a small medial and 

 two lateral very large rounded lobes. Capsule not seen. The calyx of this species is 

 quite unlike that of P. macrantha, being terete puberulous and without apparent 

 nerves. 



Tube of the corolla more than twice as long aa the calyx ; upper lip 

 glabrous, sickle-shaped or annular, not inflated in the middle. 



21. P. megralanthaj Don Prodr. 94 ; pubescent or villous, stem tall 

 stout erect leafy, leaves alternate long-petioled oblong-lanceolate pinnatifid, 

 lobes short or long crenate or again pinnatifid, racemes at length lax-fld., 

 bracts pinnatifid, calyx-lobes crested, corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx, 

 upper lip annular gradually narrowed from the base and produced into a 

 long slender tail, lower very large. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 564 ; Wall. Cat. 

 411 ; Begel Gartenfl. t. 943. 



TEMPERATE and STJBALPINE HIMALAYA; from Kashmir, alt. 7-14.000 ft., to 

 Sikkim, alt. 11-15,000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., solitary or several from the root, often as thick as a swan's quill, 

 hollow. Radical leaves 2-10 in., 2-pinnatifid; petiole slender; cauline sometimes as 

 long. Racemes 4-10 in. ; pedicels \- in. ; lower bracts longer than the flowers. Calyx 

 | in. long, inflated, hirsute, nerves strong. Corolla-tube very slender, f-1 in. ; upper 

 lip slender, lower 1 in. broad. Capsule |-li in. long, half exserted, linear-oblong, 

 acute. Seeds % in. long, finely reticulate. The colour of the flowers is variously 

 noted as yellow and rose-pink ; in Sikkim they are rose- purple, in Regel's figure they 

 are golden yellow. 



22. P. bicornuta, Klotzsch in Eeis. Pr. Waldens. Sot. 109, t. 61 ; 

 pubescent or hirsute, stem usually very stout tall erect simple leafy, leaves 

 alternate all petioled linear or linear-oblong pinnatifid to the middle lobes 

 rounded crenate or lobulate, spikes or racemes long stout raany-fld., bracts 

 crenate, calyx-lobes crested, corolla yellow, upper lip annular produced into 

 a slender curved bifid tail, lower very large. P. eximia, Watt in Journ Linn 

 Soc. xviii. 381, t. 13. Pedicularis n. 23, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. $ T. 



WESTERN ALPINE HIMALAYA and WESTERN TIBET, from Kashmir to Kunawur 

 alt. 9-13,000 ft., Falconer, &c. DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Yarkand and Kashgar. 



