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CHAPTER V 



HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF INDIAN SPECIES 



From those district 



of the Himalayan province that 



descriptiv 



Fifty-five of these are capable of complete descripti 

 in fruit: 



wi 



th 



portion of this paper, there have been, so far, seventy speci 



scope of the 



?8 reported. 



one has been collected in fruit, but not in flower; one is only 

 by leaf specimens and cannot therefore be described, all that may be predicated of it 



teen have not yet been collecte 



presented 



being that it is not 



referable to any described species, and that it most probably b longs 



to the sub-section Eusiphonanthce of the Siphonanth^e or to the sub-section lhjposiphonanth 

 of the Rhyncholophje. Of the rest, 30 species belong to the division L0NGIR0STRES, 25 

 to the ADUNCJE, and 14 to the EROSTRES. 



The earliest published descriptions of Indian species of Pedicularis 



P. Oederi, — from Scand 



exampl 



in 



1806 



i 



d of P. longifli 



are those of 

 from Siberian 



examples— in 181 1, 2 but the first author to describe species from Ind 



Mr. D. D 



pie 



Wils 



who published three species in 1825 s and described a f 



Rhinanih 



In 1828 4 Dr. Wallich issued sheets of what professed to be 13 species, 11 of these bein 





different from those 



described by Don, but only 



six of which now stand with Wallich'g 



names; one of the six (P. carnosa) was described and figured by Wallich in 

 1834 6 a figure of a South Indian 



1831 



6 



In 



ipecies was published without specific name or des 



pt 



This species (P. zeylanica) had been issued by Wallich in 1829 as a 2 



but was, along with three other new species 



described from Ind 



specimens by 



Mr. Bentham in 1835. 7 In 184 1-2 8 three Indian species were described from Sibet 



specimens 



In 1843 9 an Indian species issued by Wallich was differentiated and re-named 



In th 



by Dr. Bunge, and was described under Bunge's name in the following year. 10 



year (1844) 11 M. Decaisne described and figured two Indian species already distin 



In 1846 12 Mr. B 



while 



guished under other names by Don and Schrenk. 



graphing the genus, distinguished two more Indian species (P. Perrottetii and P. flagellaris), 



distinguished 

 an species ; 



. examples ; 



described under a new name (P. cabulica = P. dolichorrhiza) one 

 Schrenk. In 1850 13 Wight figured the two already-described S 



by . . 

 Boissier 



Ind 



in 



1853 14 diagnosed still another 



Ind 



species from Pe 



and in 1862 15 Klotzsch described as new, and figured, five species, only two of which in 



ity had previously been unknown 



differentiated 



1 JTornem., OeJcon. Plantel., 

 a Mem. Acad, Petersb. iv, 345. 



3 Prodr. Flor. Nepal. 94, 95. 



4 Litkogr. Catalog., nn. 411-423. 



5 Plant. Asiat. Bar. ii, 44, t. 154. 



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ed. ii, p. 580. 



N\ 



7 Scrophularinece Indica, pp. 51—54. 



» Fischer and Meyer, Enum. Plant. Nov, a C. Sch 



» Pull. Sc. Acad. Petersb. viii, 251. 



w Walp. Sep. iii, 415. 



» Jacquemont's Voyage, Pot. 117, 118; tt. 122, 123. 



12 DC. Prodr. s, pp. 565, 681 ; 575. 

 > 3 Tcones tt. 1418, 1419. 



ii, 19, 23. 





Diagn 



Waidem., Pot., pp. 106—109, 





