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BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR<br />
[Plate i8<br />
Plate 48<br />
PEDICULARIS, Linn.<br />
Lousewort.<br />
(From the Latin pediculus, a louse, because one of the species,<br />
Pedicularis palustria, was said to produce a lousy disease in<br />
sheep.)<br />
Key after Prain. It contains all the species of Plates 48<br />
and 49. Under Plate 48 only those species will be described<br />
which are figured on that plate ;<br />
under Plate 49, first those<br />
that are figured on that plate and the rest in alphabetical<br />
order.<br />
A. Upper lip beaked.<br />
I. Stamens inserted below the top (often<br />
near or below the middle) of the<br />
tube which is more or less widened<br />
upwards.<br />
1. Leaves opposite or in whorls.<br />
a. All the filaments of stamens<br />
hairy.<br />
aa. Stamens inserted in the<br />
middle of the tube. Corolla<br />
pink (Pi. 48, figs. 1 and 2)<br />
bb. Stamens inserted opposite<br />
the top of the ovary.<br />
: ''<br />
Flowers purple or pink<br />
P. pymmidata.<br />
(PL 48, fig. 3) P. pectinata.<br />
** Flowers yellow (PI. 48,<br />
... ... ... P. tenmrostris.<br />
fig. 4)<br />
b. All the filaments hairless.<br />
aa. Beak bifid at tip ... ... P. brevifolia.<br />
bb.<br />
Beak entire.<br />
* Stamens inserted above<br />
*" I:<br />
the middle of the tube P. porrecta.<br />
Stamens inserted at the<br />
middle of the tube ... P. gracilis.<br />
2. Leaves scattered (not opposite or<br />
in<br />
whorls).<br />
a. Beak turned inwards (PI. 48,<br />
^ fig. 5) P. Garckeana.<br />
b. Beak straight (Pi. 48, iig. 6) ... P. Wallichii.
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