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Plate 40] PEDICULAEIS 95
Pigs. 1 and 2. Pedicularis rhinanthoides, Schrenk.
Plate 49
(Hliinanthoides means resembling Rhinanthus, another genus of
Scrophulariaceae.)
Stems 2-12 in. high, curved, usually quite hairless. Leaves
linear-oblong, the radical ones tufted, long-stalked, pinnatisect,
segments 9-12 pairs, egg-shaped, toothed ;
stem-leaves few,
scattered, short-stalked. Flowers purple or pink, pale rose, or
white with salmon-coloured spots, axillary, stalked, forming
dense-flowered racemes. Calyx egg-shaped, 5-toothed, uppermost
segment lance-shaped, entire, the others egg-shaped,
toothed. Corolla-tube almost twice as long as the calyx.
Lower lip 3-fid, lobes rounded, lateral ones twice as broad as
the mid-lobe.
inflated in the middle
Upper lip sickle-shaped,
with a slender, incurved or S -shaped, sharp-pointed, entire
beak. Stamens inserted at the top of the tube ;
front-filaments
hairy. Ovary lance-shaped. Stigma protruding. Capsule
egg-shaped-oblong, obliquely long-pointed. Seeds egg-shaped,
pale, netted.
Can be distinguished from P. sip/ionantha by the 5-toothed
calyx and the entire beak. In P. siphonantha the calyx is
3-toothed and the beak 2 -fid.
Flowers. June- August.
Locality. Aporwat above Gulmarg, damp places on open
hill-side, above 10,000 ft., common below Garam Gali
; ;
Diskhal in Juniper tract, abundant; /oji La; Ladakh,
11,000 ft.
Distribution. Alpine W. Himalaya, 10,000-17,000 ft., B.
Himalaya, Alatau Mts., Turkestan, Yarkand, Kansu, N. Tibet,
Yunnan.
Fig. 3. Pedicularis bicornuta, Klotzsch. Two-horned
Lousewort.
More or less hairy. Stem usually very stout, tall, erect,
simple, leafy, 6-24 in. high. Leaves alternate, all stalked,
linear or linear-oblong, pinnatifid to the middle, lobes rounded,
toothed or lobed. Eadical leaves many in small stemless
specim'ens, falling off soon in large ones, blade 3-4 by yV in.,
segments y-J in. long stem-leaves like the rest ; ;
stalk 1-2 in.
Raceme often 8 in. long, with many rather crowded flowers ;
bracts usually shorter than the calyx flower-stalks -J in.
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