584 LXii. ONAOEACB^. (C. B. Clarke.) [^Epiloliuvi. 



Seeds ellipsoid or otoToid, 2^ times as long as broad, little narrowed at the base, punc- 

 ticulate, not papillose, coma fulvous. 



Var. sericetim, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 6325 (sp.) ; pubescence of the stem and leaves 

 densely white silky (not tomentose). E. tomentosum, Vent. Hort. Oels. t. 90. — Dis- 

 trib. the same as that of the typical E. hirsutum ; into which this variety graduates. 



Var. Icetwm, Wall. Cat. 6329 (sp.) in part; middle cauline leaves much smaller 

 often about 1 in. not semi-amplexicaul at the base little pubescent, no white silky 

 hairs on the plaint. — Kashmir ; Jacquemont. Chumba, alt. 3000 ft. ; C. B. Clarice. 

 Kmnaon ; Wdlich ; near Almora, alt. 5000 ft. ; Strachm/ ^ Winterbottom. Jul- 

 lundur, alt. 1000 ft; C. B. Clarke. — This plant has been from the leaves supposed 

 near E. tetragonum ; but the examples show the stigmas decisively spreading, so that 

 it is either a var. of E. hirsvtwm or a new species. 



5. E. parvlflorum, Schreb. ; DC. Prodr. iii. 43 ; middle cauline leaves 

 mostly opposite sessile oblong-lanceolate hairy, broadest part of the leaf in its 

 basal third portion. Boiss. Fl. Orient, ii. 747. 



Western Himalaya; Edgeworth ; Simla, T. Thomson. — Disteib. West Asia, 

 Europe, North Africa. 



Stem 2-3 ft., round, without lines, pubescent and with much crisped white hair. 

 Middle cauline leaves 1^-2 by ^— | in., dentate, pubescent over both surfaces. Sepals 

 green, oblong, acute, in the bud mucronate. I'etals usually smaller than those of E. 

 hirsutum but are f in. in the Himalayan plant. Stigmas i, distinct, spreading but 

 hardly revolute. Capsule 2-3^ in., sparingly hairy, lower peduncles ^1 in. Seeds 

 ellipsoid or obovoid, 2J times as long as broad, little narrowed at the base, punc- 

 tulate, not papillose, coma fulvous. — Seed exactly as that of E. hirsutum ; punctulate 

 by raised points, but these papillas excessively minute. 



Vab. veatitmn, Benth. in Wall. Cat. 6327 (sp.) ; stem and leaves with fulvous 

 shaggy hair, the stem itself somewhat glaucous. — Nipal ; Watlich. 



** Stigmas combined or stigma clavate. 



t Stem round, the hairs sometimes in lines arid the hoses of the haves some- 

 what decurrent in lines, but the stem not clearly quadrangular. 



6. E. roseum, Schreb. ; Boiss. Fl. Onent. ii. 749 ; stem uniformly hairy 

 or with hairy lines, leaves petioled (shortly in nearly all the Indian forms) from 

 ovate to narrow-lanceolate, seeds obovoid not fusiform nor gradually narrowed 

 at the top. 



Temperate Himalaya, alt. 5000-11,000 ft.; common. — Disteib. West Asia and 

 Eiu'ope. 



Vab. indicum ; middle cauline leaves lanceolate or ovate with crisped pubescence on 

 the midrib beneath, lateral nerves slightly raised glabrous or hairy, capsules scattered 

 long..pedieelled, seed punctulate points raised most minutely. — Baltistan and Kash- 

 mir to Kumaon, alt. 6000-11,000 ft., common. — Stem 2 ft., usually hairy all round, 

 sometimes with four well-marked lines. Middle cauline leaves 1-2 in. opposite some- 

 times ternate, sometimes glabrous beneath except the midrib, more often with crisped 

 hairs on the primary nerves also; petiole often less than ^ in. but sometimes nearly 

 J in. Peduncle of the lower capsules often 1 in. or more. Coma of the seed very white 

 in well-preserved examples, but often discoloured in others. — E. Icstum, Wall. Cat. 

 6329, belongs mainly to E. hirsutum ; but some of it belongs here and some to E. 

 tetragonum. Large quantities of the form of this plant with broad ovate leaves and a 

 petiole of ^in. or thereabout constitute E. montanum var. himalayense of Indian her- 

 baria : but in all these the style is unmistakably clavate, not at all (or most obscurely) 

 lobed at the summit. 



Var. Dalhousieanum ; capsules often approximate; the lowest with a very short 

 pediincle, seed rather narrowly ellipsoid prominently papillose. — From Kashmir to 

 Sikkim, alt. 6000-9000 ft. ; abundant about Dalhousie. — Stem round, uniformly pu- 



