Plants of the Punjab. 



385 



Hebbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Sopubia trifida, 



ScrophulariacejE. 



F. B. I. iv. 302. 



HQmalava, 



3-7, 000 ft. 



Jako, Simla 



(Collett). 



Petals united. 



medinm size, annual, slender, roughly velvety, branches 

 ascending; leaves |-l-|in., mostly divided into three, 

 linear, sessile, lower opposite, or clustered, upper alter- 

 nate, undivided ; flowers | in. diam., yellow in many termi- 

 nal bracteate racemes, calyx 5-toothed, bell-shaped, woolly 

 inside, corolla 5-lobed, tube short, lobes spreading, nearly 

 equal, stamens 4 in unequal pairs, style long, broadened 

 into a flat stigma ; capsule ovoid, longer than the calyx. 



Leptorhabdos 

 Benthamiana, 



Scrophulariace^. 

 F. B. I. iv. 303. 

 Himalaya, 

 5-11,000 ft. 

 Simla, Mashobra, 

 Matiana (Collett). 

 Kashmir, 

 Baluchistan (Lace). 



medium size, annual, smooth, stem slender or stout, 

 branched above, branches straight, erect, very slender ; 

 leaves 1-3 in., deeply pinnately divided, segments linear 

 or thread-like, lower leaves opposite, upper alternate ; 

 flowers I in. diam., pale pink in slender bracteate, minutely 

 glandular racemes, calyx 5-toothed, bell-shaped, corolla 

 5-lobed, tube short, lobes spreading, nearly equal, stamens 

 4 in unequal pairs, style long, stigma minute ; capsule \ 

 in., oblong, flattened, enclosed in the calyx, seeds 2-4, 

 wrinkled. 



Pedicularis pectinafa, 



Scrophulariace.e. 

 F. B. Liv. 306. 

 Himalava, 

 7-11,000 ft. 

 Theog, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 



small to medium size, branched or not, stout, smooth ; 

 leaves, lower, 3-6 in., pinnately divided, lanceolate, seg- 

 ments toothed or pinnately divided, stem-leaves 3 by 2 in., 

 whorled, stalked, lanceolate, pinnately divided, segmerts 

 toothed ; flowers f in., rose red, scattered on spikes, 2-6 

 in. long, oftpn hairy, bracts ovate-lanceolate, as long as 

 the calyx, calyx | in. long, swollen in fruit, teeth 5, entire, 

 short-pointed, corolla-tube as long as the calyx, 2-hpped, 

 upper lip swollen, sickle-shaped, beak long, tip twisted, 

 stamens 4, in unequal pairs, hairy, attached at the bottom 

 of the tube, style slender, stigma nearly round ; capsule \ 

 in., ovoid, short-pointed, seeds -i in., ridged, deeply pitted. 

 This plant is used as a cure for haemoptysis. 



Pedicularis 

 tenui ostris, 



ScROPHULARIACEiE, 



F. B.I.iv. 307. 

 Himalava, 

 7-1 1 ,000 ft. 

 Kashmir, Lahul. 



like the last species, but the stem-leaves have blunt, 



round-toothed 

 yellow. 



segments, bracts long-pointed, flowefs 



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