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EHYNCHOLOPH^. 



tube and basal part of hood, stamens inserted higher up, filaments all hirsute, 

 narrower longer anthers, much longer capsules and much larger seeds. In habit it 

 apparently more nearly approaches to P. yunnanensis and P. tsangchanensis than it does 

 to any of the European species with which it has been compared or confounded. 



44. Pedicularis excelsa Hook. /. (1884). 



Altissima glabra rhizomate brevi nodoso lignoso radicibus fibrosis casspitosis caule 

 terete fistuloso ramoso folioso foliis radicalibus caulinisque imis mox evanidis foliis summo 

 caule manentibus circa 12 longe petiolatis laminis magnis ovatis acutis pinnatipartitis 

 rhachis dimidio superiore dentato-alato segmentis 6 — 15-jugis distantibus oppositis vel imis 

 subalternis ovato-lanceolatis pinnatisectis laciniis 5 — 9-jugis oblongis obtusis pinnatifidis 

 et mucronato-dentatis floribus breve pediceliatis bracteis ovatis petiolatis foliaceis 

 pinnatifidis calycem aequantibus racemis strictis densifloris calycis ovoidei membranacei 

 margine breviter ciliati antice profunde fissi 5-dentati limbo postice productiore dentibus 

 brevibus obtuse deltoideis integris corollas mox caducae tubo sursum leviter ampliato 

 demum dextrorse torto calycem parum superante labio patente margine ciliato e basi lata 

 sensim attenuato ovato-oblongo ipso apice 3-lobo lobis lateralibus minimis orbiculatis 

 medio elongato reflexo et ad rostrum receptum obcucullato galea suberecta margine faucis 

 ampliati densius viilosa parte antherigera a parte basali brevissima incerte internosci 



angulo obtuso in rostrum elongatum deflexum apice integerrimo in lobo labii medio 

 nidulante sensim attenuata staminibus ex adverso summi ovarii insertis filamentis glaber- 

 rimis ovario late ovoideo stigmate incluso capsula calyce 4-plo longiore ovato-oblonga 

 apice rotundata oblique reticulata seminibus nigris minute reticulars.— - P. excelsa Hook. 

 /., Flor. Brit. Ind. iv, 311 ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, 828, t. 3, /. 44. 



In Himalaya orientali: — Sikkim; Yeumtong, in valie Lachen, 12,000 p> s. m., Hooker ; 

 inter Tang-ka-la et Ohuoibi, Kingii mercenar. ! Chumbi ; ad Rinchingong, Kingii mercenar. ! 

 Phari ; ad Ga-ling, Kingii mercenar. ! 



Augusto floret; corolla pallide punicea. 



Caule 95 — 160 cm. alto basi indicis digiti crassitudine, rhizomate 3 — 4 cm. crasso 

 radicibus 6 — 8 cm. longis, foliorum petiolis 2 — 6 cm. longis laminis majorum 13 X 10 cm. 

 minorum 4x3 cm. segmentis majoribus 55 X 20 mm. laciniis 8x4 mm., racemis 

 8 — 20 cm. longis, bracteis 9 mm. longis, calyce 5 mm. longo, corollas tubo 6 mm. 

 longo, galea 7 mm. longa hac 3 mm. lata rostro 10 mm. longo labio 18 mm. longo 

 basi 6 mm. parte triloba vix 3 mm. lato. 



Plate 13. Figs 1 — 7. — Pedicularis excelsa Hook. /. 



Specimen from between Tang-ka-la and Chumbi. 



This account of P. excelsa is based on an examination of 9 specimens, none of which 



are in fruit ; the description of capsule and seeds is taken from the Flora of British 

 India. This is a very fine species forming, as Maximowicz I.e. shows, a monotypic 

 series that in many respects connects the more usual Rhyncholophous forms with the 

 highly specialised American series Surrectce. The lowest flowers of the raceme at 

 times appear to remain closed till after those higher up are opened, but this is not, as 

 I at first supposed, the rule, as it is in Siphonanthae. After the flowers are opened the 



