THE 



SPECIES 



OF 



PEDICTJLAEIS 



OF THE 



INDIAN EMPIRE AND ITS 



V 



CHAPTER I. 



HISTORICAL. 



The Scrophulariaceous genus Pedicularis 



almost exactly limited, was defined 



species, and m 



i 



1767* two more 



who prepared a monograph of the 



Linnaeus 

 Willdenow 5 ii 



which Tournefort 1 had 



1737, 



In 1753 Linn 



already 



0(1) 



1800 recognised 34 



described 14 



enumerated 99 species 



genus m 1823, diagnosed 49 



species, and Stev 



in the same year Bentham 8 distinguished 



B 



7 



Hooker 9 found in 1876 that the total had exceeded 



brought the total 



species 



> 



and 



up to 153. But 



th 



1888 Maxim 



109. 

 120, while Maxim 



» r 



in 184 



Bentham and 



1881 



total has now reached 261 



investigated is considered, it is certain that 

 M. Franchet 12 indeed has already intimated 



M 



> 



many 



has had to account for 2->0 

 when the area still to be 



unreported 



separable forms are yet 

 existence of some of these. 



The arrangement of Linnasus was followed by Willdenow but 



altogether inadequate, elaborated 



a 



th 



ystem the value of which 



fact that although the number of species now known 



fi 



Steven, finding it 

 best appreciated from 



1823, subsequent monographers have been able to follow in its author 



best 



systems, those of Bentham and of Maximowicz 



are 



times what it 



footstep 



was i 1 1 



r I 



that of Steven 



tion 



Th 



but the modifications are more due to development th 



tainly very different fro 



e 



HI 



e principle underlying this development has been the 



of subordinate sections 



recogn 



or series consisting of naturally allied forms 



Bentham, who 



separated 20 such series in 1877 and 28 in 1888 



recognised 18 of these, it has been extended by Maximow 



synopsis sh 



appears 



pable of still further extension 



And this principl 



to reconstruc - 

 and definition 

 Initiated by 

 icz, who 



y 



as the present 



1 Inst. Rei Herbar. p. 1 

 8 Gen. Plantar, n. 746. 



Plantar 



Ma 



4 Species Plantar, iii, 202. 

 ' Mem. Soc. Mosc. vi. 55. 



' Bull. Phys. Math. Ac. Petersb. i, 369. 



8 DC. Prodr. i, 560. 



9 Genera Plantarum ii, 979. 



10 Mel. Biol, i, 80, and ii, 278. 

 1 Mel. Biol. xii. 919. 



France vol. xxxri, Rev. Bibliog 



foot 



An 



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