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86 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 47
lilac with purple veins, usually tinged with yellow in the throat,
forming spikes at the end of stem and branches bracts leaflike.
Calyx tube-shaped, 4-lobed. Corolla 2-lipped, J-i
;
in.
long tube cylindric, longer than the calyx ; ; upper lip erect,
2-lobed, lower spreading, 3-lobed, lobes usually notched.
Stamens 4, in unequal pairs ; anthers hairy, cohering in pairs
under the upper lips, lower pair long-spurred. Style long
;
stigma small. Capsule as long as the calyx, oblong, flattened.
Flowers. June to August.
Locality. Abundant on grassy banks near Kangan ;
Gulmarg, open marg, above 8,000 ft., common Baltistan.
;
Distribution. Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to
Kumaon, 4,000-13,000 ft., Sikkim, 10,000-12,000 ft.,
Afghanistan and N. Persia, N. temperate regions.
SCROPHULARIA, Linn.
The Figwort.
(The name alludes to a former use of the plants against scrofula.)
A. Upper corolla lobes longer than the others.
I. Stamens included ... ... ... S. Scopolii.
II. Stamens far protruding S. himalensis.
III. Stamens hardly protruding.
1. Leaves once or twice pinnately cut ;
segments horizontal ... ... S. iucida.
2. Leaves crenate above, cut towards
the base
; segments bent back ... S. variegata.
B. Upper corolla-lobes almost equal stamens
;
included ... ... ... ... S. calycina.
Fig. 6. Scrophularia Scopolii, Hoppe. Scopoli's Figwort.
(After J. A. Scopoli, 1723-1788, zoologist and botanist.)
Stems 2-3 ft. high, stout, branched, hairless. Leaves
stalked, egg-shaped-oblong or heart-shaped-egg-shaped, coarsely
irregularly toothed, 1-3 in. long stalk
; i-1 in. long. Cymes
forming stiff, stout panicles about 1 ft. long. Flower-stalks
short, stout, erect. Sepals 5, round, with a membranous
margin. Corolla greenish, lobes 5, the upper 4 erect, lower
spreading. Stamens 4, in unequal pairs, included ;
staminode 1,
round. Capsule egg-shaped-globose, beaked. Seeds finely
wrinkled. A very variable plant.
Flowers. June.