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D. Prain — Some addilional Sjjccies of Pediralnris. 



[No. 3, 



teetli ovate acuminate. P. pectinata Wall, var. pymmidata Hook. /,, Flor. 

 Brit. Ind. iv, 306 (syn. P. pyramidata exclus.). P. pyramidata Herb, 

 lud. or. H /. & T. T. (nec Royle). 



The habit of this species and that of P. pyramidata ysxvj eqnaWj ; 

 apparently intermediate forms prove on dissection to be either P. p>ecH- 

 iiata var. palans or P. 'pyramidata with much incised leaves. The geogra- 

 phical limits are distinct in the outer Himalayan ranges and hardly over- 

 lap in the inner. There is not at Saharanpur or at Calcutta an example 

 of either variety of P. pectinata from Kashmir or from Afghanistan, where 

 P. pyramidata seems to be the representing form. The diagnosis is as 

 follows : — P. pectinata ; — beak of corolla gradually tapering to middle 

 then slender, tube sacculate in front at staminal insertion hardly ex- 

 ceeding calyx, lower half of galea erect, stamens inserted opposite top 

 of ovary, tilamants densely pilose at insertion as well as above: P- 

 pyramidata ; — beak of corolla slender from base, tube narrow straight 

 half exceeding calyx, lower part of galea inclined forwards, stamens in- 

 serted above middle of tube, filaments glabrous at insertion, slightly 

 hairy above. 



2. [1]. P. PYRAMIDATA Roylo. 



stem tall stout 3-4-farionsly hairy, eauline leaves petioled wborled 

 lanceolate pinnatisect or-partite, segments 2-pinnatifid, calyx teeth 

 ovate acuminate entire, corolla tube half exceeding calyx, lip 3-fid 

 oboordate substipitate central lobe small, beak long slender narrowed 

 from base, stamens inserted above middle of tube glabrous at insertion 

 sparingly hirsute above. P. pyramidata Royle, Benth. Scroph. Ind., 52 ; 

 Liudloy, Bot. Reg. n. s. xiv, PI. Misc., 155 ; Benth., DC. Prodr. x, 565 ; 

 Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, 810, t. 2, f. 27. 



Westebit Himalata : Lahul, (Hay ! Brandis !) ; Kashmir, (Royle ! 

 Sedgwick!); Gilgit, (Biddulph ! Tanner! Giles!); Afghanistan, (Col- 

 lott ! Aitchison !). 



Stems 30-80 cm., Spikes 10-30 cm., rootstock stout, leaves 3-4- 

 nately whorled, calyx 10 mm. glabrous or hirsute, corolla purple, tube 

 13-16 mm. hood inflated rectangularly curved, beak 14 mm. apex entire, 

 ovary ovoid, stigma exserted, capsule 9-11 mm. hardly oxserted ovate 

 acuminate, seeds 3'25 mm. pale deeply furrowed and reticulated. 



3. (3). P. TENUiBOSTfiis Benth. ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, 811, t. 2, 

 f. 26. 



Add to description of F. B. I., iv, 307 : — capsule ovate 10 mm. 

 hardly exserted, seeds 3 mm. pale deeply furrowed and reticulated. 

 Fruiting specimens (Duthie 1873 !) have now been obtained ; the type 

 of this distribution preserved at Saharanpur still retains corollas. 



