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3. Androsace lanuginosa, Wall . ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 498. Whole 
plant densely covered with long, almost silvery, white, silky hairs. 
Bunner-like branches trailing, leafy and forming at intervals 
rosettes of leaves but not rooting. Leaves radical or alternate 
or crowded in rosettes, sessile, lanceolate, in., entire. Scapes 
solitary, 3-4 in. Involucral bracts short, narrowly lanceolate, 
entire. Calyx-lobes acute or obtuse. Corolla pale or dark purple, 
usually tinged with blue, yellow in the centre. (Fig. 93.) 
Simla, common on rocks and banks; April-July. — W. Himalaya, 6000- 
10,000 ft. 
3. LYSIMACHIA. The classical name signifying Loosestrife 
and perhaps more correctly applied to Ly thrum Salicaria, the Purple 
Loosestrife of Britain. — Chiefly N. temperate and subtropical 
regions. 
Erect, decumbent or prostrate, gland-dotted herbs. Leaves 
alternate or opposite, usually stalked, entire. Flowers solitary, 
rarely in pairs, in the axils of the upper leaves or of bracts, 
stalked, rarely sessile, forming terminal racemes or raceme-like 
spikes. Calyx 5-parted ; segments lanceolate. Corolla bell-shaped 
or rotate, 5-lobed nearly to the base ; lobes entire, twisted in bud. 
Stamens 5, inserted at the base of the corolla, filaments glabrous, 
distinct or connected at the base by a membrane or ridge. Ovary 
globose ; style slender, persistent, stigma terminal, simple ; ovules 
many. Capsule small, globose, splitting from the top by 5 valves ; 
seeds numerous, minute. 
Corolla bell-sbaped, pale purple or white. 
Flowers stalked. 
Leaves ovate lanceolate. Flower-stalks much 
longer than their bracts 1. *L. lobelioides. 
Leaves narrowly lanceolate. Flower-stalks much 
shorter than their bracts . . . . . 2. L. pyramidalis. 
Flowers sessile or nearly sessile . . . . 3. L. chenopodioides. 
Corolla rotate, yellow. 
Leaves alternate. Flower- stalks slender, as long as 
the leaves . . . . . . . .4 . L. alternifolia. 
Leaves opposite. Flower-stalks thick, shorter than 
the leaf stalks .5. L. japonica. . 
1. Lysimachia lobelioides, Wall . ; FI. Br. Ind. iii. 502. Gla- 
brous ; stems angular, ascending, 1-2 ft., branching from the 
base. Leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate, l-2xj-f in., tapering 
into a short stalk, acute. Flowers pale purple or white, in 
terminal racemes 3-6 in. long, elongated in fruit ; stalks much 
longer than their bracts. Calyx nearly as long as the corolla, 
margins of lobes membranous. Corolla bell-shaped, J in. diam. 
Filaments not united at the base ; anthers protruding. 
Simla ; May-July.— Temperate Himalaya, 4000-8000 ft. 
