Pediaularis.] cm. soroph0LAEine^. (J. D, Hooker.) 311 



than the flowers ; flowers | in. long. Calt/x oblong, villous, lobes rather long and 

 slender entire or orenate. Corolla rei or purple, tuiie rather longer than the calyx ; 

 lower lip small, narrow, shorter than the upper. CapxUle as in P. laehnoglossa. Seeds 

 large, very irregularly obtusely angled and compressed, J in. long, deeply reticulate, 

 pale. 



17. P. lacbnogrlossa; Hook. f. ; stem simple strict 1-2-leaved, 

 radical leaves petioled linear-lanceolate pinnatisect, segments very many 

 and regular equidistant linear crenate, raceme strict, flowers distant, bracts 

 lanceolate longer ttan the calyx, upper lip inflated woolly with a straight 

 horizontal or deflexed beak lower with 3 narrow lobes. Pedicularis n. 32, 

 Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



Si^KiM Himalaya ; Lachen Valley, alt. 14,000 ft., J. D. K. 



Mootstoek perennial ? crowned with slender membranous leaf-sheaths. Stem as 

 thick as a crow-quill. Sadical leaves 4-6 by J-f in., petiole and rachis slender, seg- 

 ments 30-40, at regular intervals, -^ in. broad. Racemes 4-8 in. ; bracts slender, ore- 

 nulate, erect ; pedicels very short ; flowers appressed to the rachis, | in. long, red- 

 purple. Calyx \ in., glabrous, oblong, lobes lanceolate not crested. Corolla-tube not 

 exceeding the calyx; upper lip sickle-shaped inflated in the middle, beak straight 

 much larger and longer than the lower, which has 3 small obovate acute ciliate lobes. 

 Capsule ^1 in., lanceolate, finely acuminate, twice as long as the calyx. Seeds J in. 

 long, subellipsoid, base appendaged, dark, faintly striate and punctate. 



18. P. excelsa, SooJc.f.; stemglabrous very tall branched leafy, leaves 

 large alternate petioled bipinnatifid or pinnatisect below, pinnEB linear-oblong 

 distant, lobes or segments irregularly toothed, racemes long strict mauy-fld. 

 pubescent, calyx small glabrous teeth very small, upper lip of corolla with 

 villous margins produced into a slender incurved tail longer than the lower 

 tip entire. Pedicularis n. 27, Herb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Teumtong, in the Lachen Valley, alt. 12,000 ft., J. B. H. 



Stem 2-4 ft., as thick as the middle finger below, shining, hollow ; branches ascend- 

 ing, slender, long, incurved. Leaves scattered, flaccid, 6-12 by 2-5 in. ; pinnse spread- 

 ing, 1-2J in. long, rachis puberulous winged with lobules between the segments above, 

 naked and slender below; petiole 2-4 in., slender. Macemes a foot long and under, 

 rather deuse-fld. ; bracts pinnatifid, small, pedicels J-| in. ; flowers small, ^ in. long. 

 Calyx J in., spathaceous, broadly oblong, split to the base, mouth oblique, minutely 

 toothed. Corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx ; upper lip with an oblong inflated 

 base usually villous along the margins contracted into an incurved tail; lower lip 

 narrow, with a small rounded median lobe. Capsule \ in. long, oblong-ovate, 4 times 

 a> long as the calyx, tip rounded with an apiculus at one side. Seeds -j^ in., black, 

 minutely reticulate. — I regret having no note of the colour of the flower of this majestic 

 species, which was, I believe, red-purple. 



§§ Tube of the corolla not or very little longer than the calyx ; upper lip 

 quite glabrous. 



19. P. macrantba, Klotzsch in Seise Pr. Wald. Hot. 107, t. 58 ; 

 nearly glabrous or hairy, stem erect or ascending short or long leafy, leaves 

 radical and alternate long-petioled lineq,r pinnatifid or pinnatisect segments 

 short ovate or oblong toothed or pinnatifid with acute teeth, racemes short 

 dense-fld. or the lower or all the flowers axillary, bracts leaf -like, flowers 

 large pink, calyx-lobes crested, corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx, upper 

 hp sickle-shaped tumid with a short beak, lower very large. Pedicularis 

 n. 7, Herh. Strach. Sf Winterb. 



Westebn and Cbnteal Himalaya ; Nepal, Soffmeister, J. Scully ; Garwhal, at 

 Kulhara, alt. 11,000 ft., Strachey Sf Winterbottom. 



Root of many fleshy stout fusiform fibres. Stem 4-24 in., sometimes as thick as 



