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100 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIB [Plate 49
Pedicularis longiflora, Eudolph. (
= P. tubiflora, Fisch.).
Long- flowered Lousewort.
Hairless or nearly so. Stems 1-8 in. high, many from the
root, leafy, erect or ascending, stout, often branched. Kadical
leaves very many, stalked, linear, pinnately cut, 1-3 by i-i in.,
segments 5-8 pairs, lance-shaped, pinnatifid ;
stem-leaves many,
scattered, short-petioled, stalks f-1* in. long, stout. Flowers
yellow, or white, or yello w tube and purple upper lip, or bright
yellow with two purple marks on the lower lip, axillary in
very short dense racemes. Bracts leaf -like. Calyx about
J in. long, narrowly egg-shaped, 3-toothed, top-segment awlshaped
or absent, lateral ones lance-shaped, usually toothed.
Corolla-tube ly-2j- in. long. Lower lip above i in. broad,
3-fid ; upper lip erect, inflated with a slender, blunt, slightly
notched, bent down beak about i in.} long. Stamens inserted
near the top of the tube. All filaments hairy. Stigma
protruding. Capsule f in. by in., egg-shaped, sharp-pointed.
Seeds xV in. long, egg-shaped, black, streaked, scarcely netted.
Nearly related to P. siphonantka, but differs from it by
having all the filaments hairy, whilst in P. siphonantha only
the front ones are so.
Locality. Ladakh.
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim,
11,000-18,000 ft., N. Tibet and China, Siberia, N. Mongolia.
Pedicularis mollis, Wall. Soft Lousewort.
Sparsely hairy. Stem 1-3 ft. high, strict, hollow, simple or
with whorled slender branches. Leaves all on the stem, 3-5
in a whorl, the lower ones short-stalked, the uppermost and
the bracts stalkless, blade pinnately cut, segments 10-15 pairs,
lance-shaped, toothed or again pinnatifid. Spikes on the
branches and main stem, 6-16 in. long. Flowers red or
purple, short-stalked ;
lower whorls of flowers distant, the
uppermost crowded, bracts leaf-like. Calyx i in. long, hairy,
short, broad-bell-shaped, deeply 5-toothed, segments lanceshaped,
toothed on the margin. Corolla-tube y in. long.
Lower lip 3-lobed, J-
in. broad, lobes rounded, hairy on the
margins. Upper lip narrow, straight, with the margin of
throat hairy, long-pointed, entire. Stamens inserted opposite
the middle of the ovary. Filaments hairless. Stigma included.
Capsule i by ^ in., egg-lance-shaped. Seeds rV in.
egg-shaped, yellow, netted.
long,
Locality. Ladakh .
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim,
10,000-14,000 ft.