1889.J D. Prain— /Sonte additional species of Pedicularis. 



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racemose distinctly pedicelled, calyx campanulate sliglitly cleft, corolla 

 tube ^ longer than calyx bent forward and expanded at top, lip 3-lobed 

 lobes rounded omavgiuate equal, galea straight erect apex acuminate, 

 stamens inserted in middle of tube anterior filaments hirsute. P. gibbera 

 Praiu in Ann. Boy. Bot. Garden, Calcutta, iii ined. 



Eastern Himalaya: East Nepal, 13-14,,000 feet, at Tha-moo-taa, 

 Esan-an-gi, Pey-kioug-la and Bijan, (Dr. King's collectors !). 



Annual, roots slender, stems 2-15 cm. simple or once branched, 

 i-acemes few flowered pedicels as long as calyx, calyx 4'5 mm. 5-toothed 

 with crisp white haii-s on nerves upper tooth minute the rest lanceolate 

 with obtuse serrate apices, corolla rose-pink or white tube 6 mm. ex- 

 panded at top, galea twice as wide as tube, ovary lanceolate, stigma sub- 

 included, capsule lanceolate acute 9 mm. | exserted, seeds few (4i-6) 

 3 mm relatively very large black hardly pitted. 



Closely related to P. pygmaea Maxim. This, however, differs as to 

 bracts, in the corolla tube being bent at the top and not in the middle, 

 in the galea being erostrate, and in the anterior filaments being hirsute. 

 The lanceolate capsule, the very large hardly pitted dark seeds, and 

 the leaves seem to indicate considerable affinity with P. fiexuosa and its 

 allies. 



25. (13). P. MOLLIS Wall. ; Maxim., Mel. Biol, xii, t. 4, f. 126. 



26. ( — ). P. PRAGlLis Prain. 



Stems simple elongated sparingly hairy, leaves 3-nately whorlod sub- 

 sessile membranous elliptic acute piunatipartite segments lanceolate 

 mucronate serrate, flowers axillary pedicels very short, calyx wide cam- 

 panulate, corolla externally puberulous tube straight cylindrio twice as 

 long as calyx, lip sub-quadrate 2-plioate above anteriorly 3-lobed 

 lateral lobes narrowly ovate acute half as wide as central obovate cuoul- 

 late projecting, galea slightly dilated straight with very short wido 

 truncate beak, stamens inserted near base of tube anterior filaments 

 hirsute near apex. P. fragilis Prain; Maxim , Mel. Biol, xii, t. 5, f. 83. 

 Pedicularis, sp. C. B. Clarke, Jour. Linn. Soc. xxv, 51. 



Assam: Khasia Hills, 6-6000 feet, (Mann!); Barel Mts, C-8000 

 feet, (Praiu !). N. Manipur, 6500 feet, (Clarke, n. 42044.). 



Stems 15-30 cm. lower third decumbent nodes aphyllous bulbifer- 

 ous above rooting below upper two thirds erect leafy, roots sleuder 

 disc-bearing, flowers in axila of 3-7 topmost whorls, calyx 5 mm. not 

 cleft teeth 5 narrowly linear lanceolate equal upper entire the others 

 subserrate, corolla green tube 9 mm., lip mai'giually ciliate, beak 1-5 

 mm., ovary ovate acuminate, stigma included, capsule 5 mm. subglo- 

 bose acuminate not exserted, seeds small 1 mm. spherical pale with dark 

 lateral raphe distinctly reticulated. 

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