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OBTHORRHYffCILE. 



Of var. typica, out of which Wallich carved three "species," there are two very 

 distinct forms: 



(a) " vera," with slender stems and opposite decussate leaves and flexuose branchei 

 (sometimes with leaves and branches 3-nate), and with the calyx margin distinctly 

 though shortly, toothed, but with the teeth entire = Wall. Oat n. 413; and 



(/3) "stricta," with stouter erect stems and 4-nately whorled leaves and ri^id branchei 



(also sometimes with the branches 3-nate), and with the calyx margin not toothed = Wall. 

 Oat n. 414. The true plant is somewhat uncommon, though it is present at Calcutta or 

 at Saharanpur from many of' the inner valleys of Kamaon, Nepal, Sikkim, and Chumbi. 

 The erect form (P. stricta Wall.) is common everywhere from Afghanistan to Bootan, and 

 it is this form that passes into var. khasiana. It affects usually grassy slopes and forest 

 glades; when it grows on marshy ground it becomes decumbent and the cauline leaves 

 as well as the radical ones drop off. It then becomes the plant figured on Plate 19C, 

 the distribution of which in the text is given as that of form " prostrata," and is the 

 plant = Wall., Oat n. 422. It is thus really only a state of form " stricta," not a 

 separate form. 



25. Pedicularis Heydei Pram (1889). 



Humilis pubescens rhizomate brevissimo radicibus caespitosis carnosis caulibus graci- 

 libus caespitosis arcuatis teretibus simplicibus foliis lanceolatis pinnatisectis radicalibus 

 caespitosis longe petiolatis caulinis 2-paribus oppositis superioribus subsessilibus segmentis 

 18— 25-jugis linearibus dense contiguis floribus breve pediceliatis subspicatis verticillastris 

 summis confertis bracteis oblongis calyce brevioribus calycis crasse herbacei dense villosi 

 oblongi 5-fidi segmentis supparibus lata basi lanceolatis margine crenulatis corollas tubo 



calyce plus dimidio longiore labio parvo 3-sinuato margine crenato lobis semicirculis 

 aequilatis galea subinflata angulo recto incurva parte basali erecta parte antherigera hori- 

 zontali in rostrum deflexo-porrectum labio duplo longius a basi tenue rostro apice acuto 

 integro producta staminibus fere apice tubi insertis filamentis glabris ovario ovato 

 stigmate exserto capsula ovata apice subacuminata vix obliqua calyce dimidio longiore. 

 P. Heydei Prain in Jour. As. Soc. Beng. lviii, 2, 258. 



In Himalaya occidentali :— Lahul, ad Key-lang, 12,000 p. s. m., Watt! Pangi, 11,000 



16,500 p. s. m., Heyde ! 



Caulibus 8— 14 cm. altis, radicibus 5—6 cm. longis, petiolis radicalibus 3 cm. longis 

 laminis 1-5—2 X 0'5 cm. segmentis 2 X 0«5 mm., pedicellis 2—5 mm , calyce 8 X 3*5 mm., 

 corollae tubo 12—14 mm., galeae parte basali 2 X 1 mm. parte antherigera 4 X 1*5 mm. 



rostro 6—7 mm. longo labio 3*5 mm. longo hoc 5 mm. lato, capsula 11 mm. longa 

 corolla rubra. 



Plate 27. E ; figs. 9— 14.— Pedicularis Heydei Prain. 



Specimen from Pangi. 



This species is described from two gatherings : one gathering of 10 specimens in Serb. 

 Calcutt, and another of a single specimen in Serb. G. Watt On Dr. Watt's specimen 

 Mr. JN. *,. Brown had already noted that this is probably a separable form. It is at once 

 diagnosed from P. brevifolia, with which it has been hitherto placed, by the entire apex of 



4 3 very small lip. The lip and the very different calyx separate it from 



beak and th 





