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The Kamaon form is = Watt. Cat 416 B, which Wallich only doubtfully referred to 



his P asplenifolia. It probably is the plant intended by Royle {III. t 72, /. 2), since 

 he li-ures a plant with a small lower lip, which is true of this, and since specimens of 

 this obtained by him in Kamaon are preserved at Saharanpur. But the lip of his figured 



too small even for this form, and he cites Kashmir in the text (p. 291) 

 ty; his Kashmir specimens, which are from Pyr Panjal, are true var. typica only. 

 'J 'ho various Kamaon gatherings exactly agree;— calyx hirsute, upper tooth linear lanceo- 

 late acute, lip of corolla £ smaller than in var. typica, margin crenulate, central lobe ovate 

 lanceolate, galea \ longer than in var. typica, as narrow as tube. Dr. Scully's Nepal plant 

 differs considerably;— calyx glabrescent, all the teeth with ovate expanded tips, corolla lip 

 \ times as large as in var. typica, margin entire, lobes orbicular, galea narrower than tube. 

 Thegr< itest difference is in the much larger lip; perhaps var. heteroglossa should be con- 

 sidered a speeies distinct from P. Oederi with the Nepal plant as a definite variety of this 

 new species. Mr. Maximowicz describes another variety in Mel. Biol, xii, 918. I have seen 

 no specimen of this variety, and cannot express an opinion concerning its corolla lip; it has 

 entire calyx teeth, however, and has a tawny-red corolla. In var. heteroglossa the corolla 

 is uniformly yellow; in var. typica, whether from the Alps of Europe, from Siberia, or 

 from Kashmir, the corolla is, as it is throughout the Arctic circle, yellow with upper 

 part of galea, wherein the anthers lie, reddish-brown. This reddish-brown galea-top may 

 be absent and 2 red or pink spots at the edge of the throat be present instead. This 

 variation occurs in Swiss, in Norwegian and in Kashmir gatherings alike. Not infre- 





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quently too in European and in Arctic gatherings the corolla is, as it normally is in 

 var. heteroglossa, uniformly yellow. The species varies a good deal in habit, ranging 

 from a dwarf condition very much resembling P. jlammea, with which species, owing to 

 the inadequacy of the Linnean diagnoses, many of the earlier European authors have 

 identified it, to a tall condition not unlike P. foliosa, for which Gunner I.e. mistook 

 it. rids condition— for it is no more than a robust condition of the Scandinavian- 

 Arctic form of the type— Wahlenberg {Plor. Suec. i, 389) even ventured to deal with 



as a species (P. virescens), and Hartmann (Flor. S&and., 199) has kept it apart as a 



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Those authors who have made an especial study of the genus (Steven, Bentham, 

 Bunge, Maximowicz) agree in considering the Swiss form of this species conspecific with 

 the Scandinavian and this has to be borne in mind in dealing with the synonymy 

 of the species, which is of so complex a nature and is so voluminous that I have 

 endeavoured to give it as nearly as possible in full, consulting each work quoted when 

 accessible to me, and getting friends in Europe to verify citations when the work 

 quoted was not available m India. As here and there in this mass of literature a few errors 



t^rr 7 r P r "* 1 lmVe analySed the Syn °W M a whole ***** summarised, 



the result is that a line may at once be drawn between the synonymy of last century 



re!,' of 7ZT 7 ° f f-/" ^ tb6 ^^ ° f the earii - «*»» »- 



li nute l r US1 °! °V dentlt * tho3e of ™re recent writers being the outcome 01 a 

 ^. IIV Pn ° nt - V ° f name - This wil1 ^come more apparent if the historical method 



g the 



outcome of a 



pursued 



( m 8t out d r;r:f agnosis (1753) to prevent the *«*«&■. 



specie He d\ K 2 fu ^ ° f a?reemeDt between 0ed <*'s °t 

 specie. He, doubtfully however, referred Oeder's plant to his own P 



, nor is there 



But Linnaeus 



figure and liis own 



hirsuta 7 a step in 



