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Plate 4. A-C; figs. 1-15.— Pedicdaris megalantha, Don. 



A— Specimen of var. typica (" vera") from Chumbi. 



B 



» »> n (forma "Hoffmeisteri") from Kamaon. 



C— -Part of specimen of var. pauciflora from Jiloktan, near Jon-n 

 Fig. 9 is incorrect, and should be neglected. 



This account of P. megalantha is based on the examination of 101 MMrato 

 specimens of var. typica and 13 separate specimens of var. pauciflora. Anal 



YAK. 



flowers from 33 different gatherings of var. typh i ami from 4 gathering! of 

 pauciflora have been made. This species appears to be truly annual. The corolla vari. 

 in colour; in all Western Himalayan specimens it is pale yellow; Don t.pca)a [Is. ) 



doubtfully, but probably correctly, of the lip in N<paleee specimens ai being yellowiah- 

 red, the rest of the corolla being purple ; Hooker describes the corolla in ikkim 

 specimens as rose-purple. King's native collectors note the Pun ka-b( ee-mo and tli 

 Lu-ma-poo gatherings as having pale pink corollas; the other Chumbi specimens, and all 

 the specimens of var. pauciflora, have dark purple corollas, those of the latter having 

 dyed the drying paper in which they were receiv 1 at Calcutta 



Dr. Garcke of Berlin has very kindly sent to Calcutta authentic specimens of /'. 

 Hoffmeisteri Klotzsch, which is reduced in the Flora of British J lia to P. tiphmtmth 

 they show, as Mr. Maximowicz had already suggested (Mel. Biol, x, 82, footnote 8), that 

 Klotzsch's species is a form of P. megalantha var. typica. 



7. Pedicularis Perrottetii Benth. (1846). 



Humilis parce pilosa rhizomate tenui lignoso serpento radicibus fibrosis caulo gracili 

 decumbente folioso ramoso foliis petiolatis profunde pinnatipartitis rhachi alatis segmentia 

 6— 9-iugis oblongis obtusis pinnatifidis laciniis rotundatis denticulatis floribus paucis bnve 

 pedicellatis axillaribus remotis calycis tubulato-cylindrici costis parce pilosi antics parum 

 fissi 5-dentati segmentis cristatis postico anticis dimidio lateralibus du J 

 corolla tubo extus puberulo longissimo fere prorsus angustato fauce ipsa tamen subit 

 parum ampliato calycem triplo superante labio 3-lobo galea dimidio longiore lol s 

 lateralibus ovatis medium obovato-cuneaturn spathulatum duplo excedentibus galea erecta 



cul 



antice subadunca parte basali tubo fere triplo latiore in partem antherig 



rostrem sensim acuminatam producta staminibus medio inter summum ovarium ct tub, 

 picem insertis filamentis glaberrimis axibus antherarum ad perpendiculum directis ovarm 



sti-mate exserto -P. Perrottetii Benth., DC Prodr. x, 565 ; II 9 ht, L 



ato ~«. & 



t. 1418; Hook. /., Flor. Brit Ind. iv, 317; Maxim., Mel Biol, xii, t 1, /. 1 



In India AusTRALi:-in montibus Kundah, Perrottet, Jerdonl 



Caul 



9 cm. alto, rhizomate 4 en, longo; petiolis 0-5-1 cm longis laminis 2-3 cm. 



1 cm. latis segmentis 5-8 mm. longis 3 mm. latis; pedicellis 3-6 mm. 



mm. lato, corollas tubo 90-100 mm. longo fr$ mm 



longis his 0*5—1 cm. latis seg 



longis, calyce 30 mm. longo 4 



longis, caiyce ov luiu. «m 6 « - - : A , nartp 



lato fauce 8 nam. lato gale* parte basali 9 mm. longa hac 6 o mm. a a, parte 



g 



Pl 



5 mm. lon S a, labio 24 mm. longo hoc 22 mm. lato ; corolla alba 

 8. B ; figs. 8-ll.-Pedicularis Perrottetii Benth 

 Specimen from S. India, distributed from Kew; Her!>. W V U, n. 2102. 



