LagotisJ] ex. SELAGINE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) 559 



RootstocTc slender. Leaves few, cut to the midrib; lobes linear-oblong, widened 

 towards their obtuse or notched tips; petiole 2-3 in. Scape slender, shorter than the 

 leaves, with a few leafy .bracts at the tip. Heads 1-1^ in. diam., like a double 

 rose; outer bracts^ in., orbicular-obovate, concave (when dry membranous), inner 

 narrower. Flowers | the length of the bract. Sepals obovate-oblong, one obtuse, 

 the other 2-toothed. Filaments slender, as long as the upper lip ; anthers small for 

 the genus. Style included, stigma notched. Fruit % in. long, ellipsoid. 



2. Xi. decumbens, Ruprecht Serf. Thianschan, 64 ; leaves long- 

 petioled ovate or oblong coarsely erenate, scape few-leaved, bracts much 

 larger than and concealing the flowers broadly ovate densely imbricate 

 forming an oblong head. 



WESTEEN TIBET ; Karakoram, alt. 16-18,000 ft., Thomson, Henderson; Kara- 

 kash Mts., Stewart. DISTELB. Thianschan Mts. 



JRootstoclc small. Leaves 1-1^ in., obtuse, base cuneate ; petiole 2-4 in., tapering 

 downwards. Flowering stems ascending, longer than the leaves, with a few leafy 

 bracts near the top. Spike l|-2 in. ; bracts g- in. long,, entire, obtuse, membranous. 

 Floivers in. long. Sepals as in L. globosa. Lower corolla-lip 3- or 4-cleft. 

 Anthers subsessile. Style short, included, stigma notched. Fruit narrowly oblong. 



** Calyx very large, spathaceous, hooded, concealing the corolla,, acute, 

 nerves meeting in the tip. 



3. Zi. Clarkei, Hook. f. ; stem ascending leafy,, leaves elliptic-ovate 

 acute irregularly toothed, spike elongate, calyx longer than the bract. 



SIKKIM HIMALAYA ; Yakla, alt. 16,000 ft., Clarke. 



Stems or branches 6-8 in., stout,, flexuous. Leaves, radical long-petioled ; cauline 

 2-3 in., sessile;, nerves many,, strong, reticulate. Spike recurved; bracts J in., 

 toothed. Calyx twice as long, ovate-lanceolate, complicate,, open by a narrow slit in 

 front nearly to the base, veined.. Corolla half as long, lips very short, subequal, 

 recurved, upper dilated at the hooded tip, lower obtusely 3-lobed ? Filaments adnate 

 to the margins of the upper lip. Ovary slender ; style exserted, stigma 2-fid. A very 

 remarkable plant, more caulescent than its congeners. The specimens are very bad, 

 and the description of the corolla may want correction. I found at Tungu (in N, 

 Sikkim) what I take to be young plants of this, judging from the reticulate nervatiou 

 of the leaves. 



*** Calyx spathaceous, dor sally plane, %-nerved; nerves ending apart in 

 the terminal lobes or teeth. 



4. Zi. glauca, Gaertn. in Nov. Comm. Petrop. xiv. 533, t.. 18, f. 2 ; 

 stolons 0, leaves oblong ovate or obovate toothed or erenate petiole very 

 stout, cauline obtuse, spike elongate, bracts obovate or elliptic equalling or 

 longer or shorter than the flowers. Maximovicz in Suit. Imp. Acad. St. 

 Petersb. xxvii. (1881) 523, excl. syn. L. decumbens. Gymnandra Stelleri, Herb. 

 Ind. Or. H.f. Sf 21 



ALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 11-15,000 ft., Royle, &c. DISTKIB. Mts. of Central and 

 N. Asia, and Arctic Asia and America. 



Rootstock stout, with thick fleshy root-fibres. Leaves fleshy, radical 2-3 in., vari- 

 able in breadth and toothing, narrowed into the very stout petiole ; cauline to 1J in., 

 ^amplexicaul, often quite entire. Flowering stems several, 3-10 in. high, decumbent 

 below, stout, leafy above. Spike 2-5 in. ; bracts | in. Calyx nearly as long as the 

 corolla-tube or shorter ; lobes minutely finibriate. Corolla-tube rather slender, 

 tips very variable. 



VAB. cashmeriana ; radical leaves elliptic or oblong obtuse, bracts ovate toothed 

 rather longer than the calyx, corolla deep blue much longer than the calyx, lower lip 

 2-cleft, or 3-cleft with the mid-lobe narrowest, filaments from half as long to as 



