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Plate 49] PEDIOULARIS 97<br />
Figs. 5 and 6. Pedicularis siphonantha,<br />
D. Don.<br />
Hairless or hairy. Stem 1-14 in. high, lying down or<br />
ascending. Radical leaves tufted, stalked, pinnately cut ;<br />
segments 8-15 pairs, lance- or egg-shaped, pinnatifid or<br />
toothed, rVi in. long stem-leaves few, scattered, shortstalked.<br />
Flowers pink, or rose-pink, or deep purple, or the<br />
;<br />
upper lip deep purple and lower lip and tuhe pale pink, or<br />
white, or pink outside and white within, or cherry-coloured<br />
with splashes of white, or pink with white centre, axillary,<br />
stalked, forming dense racemes ;<br />
flower-stalks i-i in. Calyx<br />
egg-shaped, i-i in. long, 3-toothed, uppermost segment awlshaped<br />
or absent, entire, lateral ones egg-shaped, toothed.<br />
Corolla-tube 2-5 times as long as the calyx, f-2* in. long ;<br />
lower lip 3-fid, hairy on the margin, f-f in. broad, lateral lobes<br />
almost rounded, rnid-lobe notched at the tip ; upper lip rolled<br />
inwards, basal part t^-i in., erect, throat with 2 teeth or lobes<br />
or entire, anther-bearing part sickle-shaped, i by xV in., passing<br />
into a 2-fid, k in. long beak. Stamens inserted at the top<br />
of the tube, front-filaments hairy. Stigma protruding.<br />
Capsule by i in., egg-shaped-oblong, long-pointed. Seeds<br />
rV in. long, egg-shaped, pale, distinctly netted.<br />
Flowers. August- September.<br />
Locality. Gangabal ; Thajwas, abundant; Nagmarg, rare;<br />
Zaskar.<br />
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim,<br />
,9,000-16,000 ft., Afghanistan, Persia, China.<br />
Figs. 7 and 8. Pedicularis Oederi, Vahl. (<br />
= P. versicolor,<br />
Wahlb.). Oeder's Lousewort,<br />
(After G. 0. Oeder, a botanist, 1728-1791.)<br />
Hairy above. Stem usually solitary, 1-12 in. high, with<br />
1-2 leaves, rather stout. Radical leaves tufted, stalked.<br />
Stem-leaves scattered, long-stalked, linear-lance-shaped, sharppointed,<br />
pinnately cut, li-2j in. long, segments 18-25 pairs,<br />
oblong or egg-shaped, deeply toothed. Flowers uniformly<br />
yellow, or lemon-yellow with purplish tip of upper lip, or<br />
tawny-red, or yellow with anther- bearing part of upper lip<br />
reddish-brown, or this reddish-brown replaced by 2 red or<br />
pink spots at the edge of the throat, short-stalked, erect,<br />
forming dense racemes l-2i in. long ; bracts egg- or tongueshaped,<br />
pinnatifid, longer than the calyx. Calyx i-f in. long,<br />
bell-shaped, more or less hairy, 5-toothed, segments lance-<br />
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