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117 



Klotesch's figure represents the usual Eastern form and is excellent : Watt's fi 



_.,al 



which I hav« been enabled, through the kindness of its author, to compare with* tl, 



specimen of P. eximia, shows the calyx teeth smaller and the beak less deeply 

 bifid than they are in the plant which the artist had before him ; 1\ eximia is simply 

 the ordinarv Eastern form of th« snpmAa f\r\ m* n « 1 1 rr <)MniiKn.i K,r «^-^- * 



ordinary Eastern form of the species originally described by Klotzsch 



5. Pedicularis elephantoides Benth. (1835) 



Elata pubescens caule erecto stricto incrassato foliis petiolatis oblon-rts pinnatifid 



caulinis inferioribus demum emarcidis floralibus majoribus segmemis t> 12-iuir 



oblongis obtusis crenatis floribus axillaribus pedicellatis racemis centrifugis condens.it 

 vel basi interrupts calycis globosi inter costas dense reticulati antice ad medium fit 

 5-dentati segmentis late lanceolatis duplicato-serratis postico reliquis duulo m 



not. 



corollse tubo calycem dimidio excedente labio tripartito lobis latcralilms rotundatis medio 

 oblongo duplo majoribus galea subinflata circinnata parto basali tubo dimidio latiore 

 erecta fauce integra parte antherigera falcata in rostrum roctiusculum porrectum a basi 

 tenue apice resupinato integrum abeunti staminibus apice tubi iusertis filamentis glabri* 

 margine undulatis ovario lanceolato stigmate subexserto capsula calyce triente lon«riore 

 ovato-lanceolata apice acuminata.— P. elephantoides Benth., Scroph. Ind. 53; Walj 



Rep. iii, 413; Benth., DC. Prodr. x, 564; Maxim., Mel. Biol, x, 82 et xii, t. 1, /. 4 



Pram, Jour. As. Soc. Beng. lviii, 2, 269.— P. rhinanthoides Hook. /., Flor. Brit. Ind. iv, 

 314 (pro parte, nee Schrenk) (1884). 



In Himalaya occidental :— Kashmir, R»yle, Sedgwick! 



Pedicellis 3—6 mm., calyce 15—18 mm., corollaj tubo 18—25 mm. galea* parte 

 basali 3 mm. longa 2 mm. lata parte antherigera 6x3 mm. rostro 18 mm. longo labio 

 28 mm. lato. Radix specimini Calcuttensi deest; capsulaj mini ignotae descrij.tio ex 

 ill Maximowicz, U. Julio floret. Corollam luteam concolorem in speciminibus Roy lei 

 invenit Maximowicz ; in specimine Calcuttensi tubum labioque luteum galeam stroquo 



purpuream video. 



Plate 3. C; figs. 15— 21.— Pedicularis elephantoides Benth. 



Specimen from Kashmir collected by Major Sedgwick, R.E. 



This account of P. elephantoides is based on Bentham's very brief diagnosis, on the 

 inis account oi jr. t h examilKltl0n f tW o 



excelled description and figure by Mas.niowu* ft «.. and « 



flowering specimens co.focted in Kashnur . 18 85. The P * « rj ^ ^ ^ 



P. bicomuta, of which it repeats the foliar leaves, cal>x, coroii 



the glabrous stamens with very character^ , nndah, e ^argm. J^J^ In' his 

 the uncontorted corolla throat and in the a uch 1 n « andq ^^ 



figure of Koyle's plant Maximowxcs shows the muilobe of h P tr ^ 



fi.an.ents sparingly hirsute. These characters are not pre -.^ g J » 



The species appears to be rare, ^" 1*^^12^ »* with it fol885. 

 at Caicutta from the time of xts collectmn ^ et J^ 

 It is just possible that it may be a hybrid, P. bicomuta x g 



6. Pedicularis megalantha Don (1825). 



a ... nnhescens vel glabrata caulibus »imp1icibus 

 Elata (rarissime nana) erecta vel ascenden pub J, £-^ ^ ^ 



vel xamosis radice central! elongato fusifoinn coilo 



