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98 BEAUTIFUL FLOWBBS OF KASHMIB [Plate 49
shaped, entire or toothed near the tip. Corolla-tube cylindric
i-f in. long. Lower lip 3-lobed, lobes rounded or egg-shaped,
rarely slightly notched ; upper lip J in. long, compressed, tip
rounded, erect, linear-oblong, slightly incurved, longer than
the lower. Stamens fixed to the middle of the tube or
slightly above it; front-filaments hairy. Ovary egg-shaped.
Stigma protruding. Capsule obliquely egg-lance-shaped, by
i longer than the calyx. Seeds elliptic, pale ash-grey, distinctly
netted.
Flowers. June, July.
Locality. Aporwat, above Gulmarg, damp and stony turf
on hill-top, above 12,500 ft., common; above Tosh Maidan ;
Basam Gali; top of Pass up to 12,000 ft. ;
Khur
Mt. 14,000 ft. ;
Damam Sar, 13,000-14,000 ft. ;
Pir Panjal.
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal,
10,000-16,000 ft., European and Siberian Alps, arctic Europe,
Asia and America, N. Tibet and China.
Pedicularis cheilanthifolia, Schrenk. Cheilanthus-leafed
Lousewort.
(Cheilanthus is a genus of Ferns.)
Sparingly hairy or hairless. Stems 2-9 in. high, tufted,
simple, sometimes branched. Eadical leaves long-stalked,
densely tufted, 1-4 by -g-k in., stem-leaves short-stalked,
opposite and 3-6 in a whorl, i-2 in. long, pirmately cut,
segments 8-12 pairs, egg-lance-shaped or linear, toothed.
Flowers whitish-rose, red or rose, almost stalkless, the lower
ones rarely distinctly stalked, arranged in crowded whorls or
the lower whorls distant. Lower bracts leafy, the uppermost
egg-lance-shaped, pinnately cut, shorter than the calyx. Calyx
about J in. long, with the ribs densely hairy, 5-toothed, lobes
short, obtuse. Corolla-tube about I in. long. Lower lip
slightly broader than long, 3-lobed, upper lip much longer than
the lower, bent, dilated at the tip or not, tip blunt, bent down.
Stamens fixed opposite the middle of the ovary ; filaments
hairy quite at the base, otherwise hairless. Stigma protruding.
Capsule lance-shaped, sharp-pointed, twice as long as the
calyx. Seeds egg-shaped, pale, netted.
Locality. Ladakh ; Karakoram, 13,000 ft.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, 11,000-16,000 ft., Soongaria,
N. Tibet, N. China.