312 cm. scROPHULABiNE^E. (J. D. Hooker.) [^Pedicular is, 



a swan's qiiill. ieare* 4-6 by |-| in., flaccid ; segments distant; rachis winged or 

 not ; petiole often as long as the blade. Flowers 1 in. long ; pedicels ^1 in. ; bracts 

 often exceeding tlie flowers and bipinnatifid. Calyx turgid, f in. long, lobes large, 

 nerves distinct. Corolla with the upper lip large broad, at the base erect or reflexed, 

 then horizontal with an incurved short beak; lower IJ in. broad, lobes orbicular, 

 the median smallest. Capsule (unripe) f in. long, oblong-lanceolate, tip exserted rounded 

 with a lateral point. — Resembles P. megalantha, but the short corolla-tube and large 

 upper lip are very different, 



20. P. Elwesii, Soak. f. ; glabrous or puberuloua, stem stout decum- 

 bent or ascending, few-leaved, leaves radical and alternate all shortly petioled 

 linear pinnatifid or piunatisect, lobes oblong short obtuse coarsely crenate 

 or lobiilate, racemes short, flowers very large purple, calyx nerveless pubes- 

 cent lobes crested, corolla-tube not exceeding the calyx, upper lip inflated 

 sickle-shaped with an incurved beak much smaller than the very broad lower 

 lip. Pedicularis n. 24, Serb. Ind. Or. S.f. Sf T. 



SiKKiM Himalaya ; Lachen Valley, alt. 12-14,000 ft., J. D. S., Mwes. 



RootstocTc perennial ? Stem as thick as a goose-quill, rarely 1 ft., curved. Sadieal 

 leaves numerous, 5-7 by ^-f in., puberulous beneath ; petiole short, J-| in., stout ; 

 cauline similar. Macemes very short ; bracts foliaceous, pedicels ^ in. ; flowers IJ in. 

 long. Calyx g— i in., cylindric, puberulous, split J way down, mouth with 2 crenate lobes. 

 Corolla dark-purple, upper lip with the inflated portion suddenly contracted into the 

 short incurved beak ; lower erect enclosing the upper, 1 in. broad, of a small medial and. 

 two lateral very large rounded lobes. Capsule not seen. — The calyx of this species is 

 quite unlike that of P. macraniha, being terete puberulous and without apparent 

 nerves. 



§§§ Tube of the corolla more than twice as long as the calyx ; upper lip 

 glabrous, sickle-shaped or annular, not inflated in the middle. 



21. P. mogralantha, Don Prodr. 94 ; pubescent or villous, stem tall 

 stout erect leafy, leaves alternate long-petioled oblong-lanceolate pinnatifid, 

 lobes short or long crenate or again pinnatifid, racemes at length lax-fld., 

 bracts pinnatifid, calyx-lobes crested, corolla-tube twice as long as the calyx, 

 upper lip annular gradually narrowed from the base and produced into a 

 long slender tail, lower very large. Benth. in DC. Prodr. x. 664 ; Wall. Cat. 

 411 ; Begel Qartenfl. t. 943. 



Tempbbate and Subaipine Himalaya; from Kashmir, alt. 7-14,000 ft., to 

 Slkkim, alt. 11-15,000 ft. 



Stem 1-2 ft., solitary or several from the root, often as thick as a swan's quill, 

 hollow. JSa(?!eanisffi»es 2-10 in., 2-pinnatifidj petiole slender ; cauline sometimes as 

 long. Racemes 4-10 in. ; pedicels j— J in. ; lower bracts longer than the flowers. Calyx 

 I in. long, inflated, hirsute, nerves strong. Corolla-tube very slender, |-1 in. ; upper 

 lip slender, lower 1 in. broad. Capsule \-\\ in. long, half exserted, linear-oblong, 

 acute. Seeds ^ in. long, finely reticulate. — The colour of the flowers is variously 

 noted as yellow and rose-pink ; in Sikkim they are rose-purple, in Kegel's figure they 

 are golden yellow. 



22. P. blcornuta, Klotzsch in Beis. Pr. Waldens. Bot. 109, t. 61; 

 pubescent or hirsute, stem usually very stout tall erect simple leafy, leaves 

 alternate all petioled linear or linear-oblong pinnatifid to the middle lobes 

 rounded crenate or lobulate, spikes or racemes long stout raany-fld., bracts 

 crenate, calyx-lobes crested, corolla yellow, upper lip annular produced into 

 a slender curved bifid tail, lower very large. P. eximia. Watt in Journ. Linn. 

 Soe. xviii. 381, t. 13. Pedicularis n. 23, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f. Sf T. 



Wbsteen AiiEiNB Himalaya and Westben Tibet, from Kashmir to Kunawur, 

 alt. 9-13,000 ft., Falconer, &c.— Disteib. Affghanistan, Yarkand and Kashgar. 



