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Plate 49] PEDICULABIS 99<br />
Pedicularis brevifolia, D. Don. Short-leafed Lousewort.<br />
Hairy or hairless. Stem 4-12 in. high, slender, erect,<br />
rounded, simple or branching from the base. Leaves stalked,<br />
the radical ones tufted, soon disappearing ;<br />
stem-leaves 2-4 in<br />
a whorl, lance- or egg-shaped, $ in. long, pinnateiy cut,<br />
segments 7-9 pairs, close together, deeply toothed or pinnatifid.<br />
Flowers purple or rose, stalkless, 4 in a whorl, lower whorls<br />
distant, arranged in a spike. Bracts leafy, short-stalked, the<br />
uppermost crowded, stalkless. Calyx i by i in., membranous,<br />
shortly bell-shaped, 5 -toothed, uppermost tooth awl-shaped,<br />
entire, the others oblong, toothed. Corolla-tube twice as long<br />
as the calyx lower<br />
; lip 3-lobed, f in. broad, lateral lobes eggshaped<br />
upper lip sickle-shaped, erect, then inflated with a<br />
;<br />
long straight or bent down beak which is blunt and more or<br />
less deeply notched. Stamens inserted opposite the top of<br />
the ovary. Filaments hairless. Stigma protruding. Capsule<br />
I in. long, y in. broad, egg-shaped, obliquely long-pointed, by<br />
longer than the calyx. Seeds egg-shaped, yellow, netted.<br />
Locality. Alpine region.<br />
Distribution. From Kashmir to Nepal, 10,000-12,000 ft.<br />
Pedicularis gracilis, "Wall. Slender Lousewort.<br />
Stems 6 in. to 4 ft. high, tall, slender, branched, 4-fariously<br />
hairy, branches opposite or whorled, simple or again branched,<br />
all very slender. Leaves 1-2 by f-li in., rarely hairy. Stemleaves<br />
in whorls, deeply pinnatifid, segments oblong-lanceshaped,<br />
6-9 pairs, blunt, toothed or pinnatifid. Flowers pinkpurple,<br />
short-stalked, forming slender, lax-flowered racemes or<br />
spikes, or flowers all axillary and distant. Calyx i in. long,<br />
T\J in. diameter, 5-toothed, segments short, often entire. Corollatube<br />
J in. long. Lower lip broadly inversely egg-shaped or<br />
rounded, 3-lobed, in. broad ; upper lip sickle-shaped, swollen<br />
in the middle, erect, with a horizontal flexuous slender beak<br />
\ in. long. Stamens inserted in the middle of the tube or<br />
slightly higher up. Filaments hairless. Ovary egg-shaped.<br />
Stigma protruding. Capsule i-J in. long, broadly egg-shaped,<br />
sharp-pointed. Seeds egg-shaped ; yellowish -grey, netted.<br />
Locality. Temperate and alpine region.<br />
Distribution. From Kashmir to Sikkim, 6,000-13,000 ft.,<br />
Assam.
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