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Plate 47] PICEORHIZA WDLFENIA 89
base narrowed into a winged sheathing stalk. Flowering
stems stout, longer than the leaves ;
naked or with a few
bracts below the inflorescence. Flower-spikes 2-4 in. long,
many-flowered ;
bracts oblong or lance-shaped, as long as the
calyx. Flowers white or bluish, dimorphic, i.e., some with
longer and others with shorter stamens. Sepals 5, J in. long.
Corolla of the long-stamened form short, 5-cleft to the middle,
lobes egg-shaped, long-pointed ; of the short-stamened, corollatube
curved, broad ;
limb 2-lipped, upper lip longer, notched,
lower of 3 shorter, egg-shaped lobes, the middle one smallest.
Stamens 4. Ovary 2-cellod, many-ovuled. Capsule 3 in. long
egg-shaped.
Locality. Thajwas ; Gangabal.
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim
9,000-15,000 ft. WULFENIA, Jacq.
(After F. X. Wulfen, an Austrian Jesuit and author of several
botanical works, 1728-1805.)
Tig. 8. Wulfenia Amherstiana, Benth.
(After Lady Sarah E. Williams nee Amherst who travelled in India,
1823-1828.)
A perennial, nearly hairless herb. Flowering stems 6-12 in.
high, slender, erect. Leaves almost radical, crowded, inversely
egg-shaped-oblong, 2-6 by 1-2 in., irregularly crenate
or toothed, narrowed into the stalk J-lJ in. long. Flowers
blue-purple, varying to white, forming dense, 1-sided, spikelike
racemes 3-6 in. long. Calyx 5-parted, segments narrow,
sharp-pointed. Corolla i in. long ;
tube cylindric, longer than
the calyx ;
lobes 4, nearly erect, acute, upper one slightly
notched. Stamens 2, protruding. Style long, protruding.
Capsule oblong, 2-lobed, as long as the calyx. Seeds many,
egg-shaped.
Flowers. August.
Locality. Gulmarg, by rocks in woods and by water, above
7,000 ft., common.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, from Murree and Kashmir to
Kumaon, 7,000-11,000 ft., Afghanistan.