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P. Heydci sometimes much resembles var. paradoxa, but the small hardlylobed lip of that 

 species at once distinguishes it from this. But var. typica most closely imitate the habit, 

 foliage, and calyx of P. denudala, while var. paradoxa equally strikingly repeats the same 

 characters of P. poly g abides . In these two species, however, which in vegetative charm t rt 

 differ as widely as do the two varieties of P. instar, the corolla, though very closely 

 resembling each other, are separable by staminal characters-filaments l.irsui 

 P. denudata, glabrous in P. poly g a loides. The only difference b tween the two yi.ru tiea of 

 P. instar, on the other hand, is that the beak is longer in var. para.hxa than it 

 the type. . This single character is not sufficient to separate the two as tlistin- spec 



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24. Pedicularis gracilis Wail. (1828). 



Elata vel decumbens 2— 4-fariam pilosa rhizomate lignoso aaepittime iticranato radi 



cibus fibrosis caulibus singulis vel caespitosis gracilibus vel strictis Minplicibttl vel -, mel 

 iterumve ramosis foliis ramisque oppositis vel 3— 4-natim vertieillatis radicalibus BK>I ovanes 

 centibus caulinis subsessilibus ovato-oblongis pinnatisectis seginentis 6— I'-jugia obloogia 

 obtusis inciso-serratis floribus breve pedicellatis gracillime puniculatis race!nosi>ve vt I 

 omnibus axillaribus distantibus calycis cylindrico-oblongi membranacei glabri vel pubescent is 

 nee fissi 5-dentati segmentis brevibus saepissime integerrimis corolla* tubo calycejii parutu 

 excedente labio suborbiculare antice 3-lobo lobis lateralibus ovatis medio ihomboidao-ovntn 

 duplo majoribus galea subinflata angulo recto incurva parte basali erecta tubo aequilata 

 parte antherigera horizontali in rostrum deflexo-porrectura a basi tmue apiece acuto 

 integerrimo producta staminibus medio tubo vel paulo altius insertis filamentis glak'r- 

 rimis ovario ovato stigmate exserto capsula late ovata acuta parum vel dmiidio calyce 

 longiore seminibus ovoideis fulvo-cinereis distincte reticulatis. 



Var. typica; erecta vel procumbens caule lineis pilosis exceptis Eoliisquo glabra 



foliis caulinis majoribus ramealibus parvulis bractcis foliisque distinct 

 petiolatis calyce margine villosulo sinuato vix dentato capsula vix exserta 

 staminibus medio tubo insertis.— P. gracilis Wall, Cat. 413; Bentk, Scropk, 

 Ind. 52; Walp., Bep. iii, 411; Benth., DC. Prodr. x, 561; Hook. /, Flor. 



Brit Ind. iv, 307.— P. stricta Wall } Cat. 414 (1828).- P. Bronooiana 



Wall, Cat. 422 (1828). 



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1 Formas " vera; " distribulio ( Wall., Cat. 413 



In Himalaya occidental! :-Dranti, in jugo, 12,000 p. s. m., Baden. Powell (n. 207) 



Tehri-Garhwal ; prope Dangalla in valle fl. Ganges, 6-7,000 p. .,.m . Duthie (,, 1874) 



ad ripas fl. Ganges infra Jangla, 8-9,000 p. s. m, Dutlue (n. 233 ! kamaon: . vail, 

 Ralam, 12-13,000 p. s. m., Ditto (3224)! Nepa : n> montAo. Sheopur et m („,*»., 

 Than, WaUich (Cat. n. 413 [to])! Scull,.' In Himalaya onen.ah ^b.kk.n, ad Khe.dong, 

 Eingk mercena,! Chumbi: ad Rinchingong in va.le Chumb,, et •*£ ™£ >-« 

 inter Cbmnbi et Phari median,, Kingii nercena,! (.pp. h« ommacum P. ^- 

 consentanea) ; in Himalaya occidentali etiam spp. 1 , por, 

 nives legit Duihie (n. 810)! in Lahul legit Watt 



2 Formas " strict* " distribntio ( Wall, Cat. 414) 



simillima, in Jutnnotri ad 



■v t.„,v Vali-nner n. 794 (pro maxima parte sed cum 



In Himalaya oodd^^E^,^^^^ J 



P. U^ot* in .*^-y— £i ST£ 7 SL Deoban, 7-8,000 p. , m. 



7,000 p. s. m., Brandts (31o7J! Jaunsar u , 



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Ann. Eoy. Box. Gafd. Calcutta, Vol. III. 



