JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 



Part II.— NATURAL SCIENCE. 



No. III.— 1889. 



XV. — Novioiffi ladicsB. I. Some additional Species of Pediculai-is. 

 By D. Prain. Communicated by Dr. G. King, F. R. S. 

 [EeceiTed Jan. 18th ;— Read Feb. 6th, 1889.] 

 The account of the genus Pedicularis, Linn., in the Flora of British 

 India, vol. iv, pp. 306-317, was issued in January 1884 and since then 

 Dr. King's Himalayan collectors have contributed several new forms. 

 The details of a cx-itical examination of the Indian material of this 

 genus preserved at Calcutta, and also of that at Saharanpur, kindly 

 lent for study by Mr. Dutliie, are about to appear in another place ; 

 meanwhile, diagnoses of the forms new to India, arranged according to 

 the method of the Flora, may prove of interest. The numbers of the 

 inner serial list are those of the Flora ; the references opposite are to 

 descriptions and figures published between 1884 and 1889. 

 Series I. Cauline leaves whorled or opposite. 



* Upper lip leaked. 

 1. (1). P. PEC'IINATA Wall. 



a. Var. typica; leaves pinnatipartite segments pinnatifid, calyx 

 teeth triangular acute. Wall,, Oat. 420 ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, 810, 

 t. 2, f. 26. 



/3. Var. palans ; leaves pinnatisect segments pinnatipartite, calyx 

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