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D. Praia — Some additional species of Pedicularis. [No. 3, 



Western Himalaya : — Kaslimir, (Royle, Sedgwick !). 



Stems as thick as goose quill, pedicels half as long as calyx, calyx 

 15 mm. 6-toothed slightly cleft teeth ovate serrate upper ^ the size of 

 others densely reticulate between the nerves, corolla yellow or with 

 galea and beak purple, tube 15 mm., beak 24 mm. margins of filameuts 

 undulate, ovary lanceolate acute, stigma esserted, capsule not seen. 



Repeats habit and foliage, calyx, corolla tube and lip of P. Ucornuta 

 from which, however, it differs in the throat not being contorted and in 

 the beak, which is nearly twice as long and is quite entire at apex. 

 Apparently uncommon and not reported either at Calcutta or Saharan- 

 pur since collected by Dr. Royle till communicated by Major Sedgwick, 

 R. B. in 1885. In Sedgwick's plant the hood and beak are dark purple 

 the tube and lower lip golden yellow. 



46. (23). P. BELLA Hook. /. ; Maxim., Mel. Biol. xii. t. 1, f. 3. 



47. ( — ). P. Pkzewalskii Maxim. 



Dwarf almost stemless, radical leaves tufted narrowly oblong im- 

 bricate-crenate densely pubescent, flowers few axillaiy pubescent, calyx 

 cylindric slightly cleft, corolla tube almost thrice as long as calyx, lip 

 deeply 3-lobed lobes rounded subequal, galea erect slightly inflated beak 

 straight bifid halfway, stamens inserted near top of tube filaments all 

 hirsute. P. Frzewalslcii Maxim., Mel. Biol, x, 84, and xii, 787, t. 1, f. 2. 



Eastern Himalaya.- — Phari, (Dr. King's collector!). Distrib : 

 N. Tibet ; China, Kansu and Szotschuau. 



Rootstock fusiform somewhat slender, calyx densely hirsute 11 mm. 

 5-toothed upper tooth entire very small the others crested anterior pair 

 smaller than lateral, corolla I'oso-pink tube 30 mm. puberuloiis externally, 

 beak 7 mm. segments slightly expanded at tips, ovary oblong, stigma 

 Bubincluded, capsule oblong oblique shortly cuspidate. 



48. (— ). P. Daltoni Prain. 



Densely pubescent stems short erect, leaves petioled linear pinnati- 

 fid segments ovate mucronate-dentate flowers axillary pedicels very long, 

 calyx cylindric J cleft anteriorly densely hirsute, corolla tube | exceed- 

 ing calyx lip 3-fld margin crenulate lobes rounded lateral h larger than 

 central, galea inflated slightly rcflexed then arcuately curved beak 

 straight | bifid stamens inserted above middle of tube filaments all hir- 

 sute. P. Valtoni Prain in Ann. Roy. Bot. Garden, Calcutta, iii ined. 

 P. aspleniifolia tar. puhescens Hook. /., Flor. Brit. Ind. iv,' 315. Pedi- 

 cularis n. 20, Herb. Ind. Or. H. /. and T. T. 



Eastern Himalaya : Sikkim, Donkia-la, (Hooker ! Dr. King's 

 Collector!), and Zo-lep-la, (Dr. King's Collector!); Chumbi, Perm-la 

 and Chum-la-ree, (Dr. King's Collectors !) ; Phari, (Dr. King's Col- 

 lector !). 



