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104 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 50
Flowers. August, September. Flowers at intervals of often
several years (Collett).
Locality.
Distribution.
Jammu.
Subalpine Himalaya, from Jammu to Bhutan,
7,000-11,600 ft. SELA6INACEAE.
(From Selafio, a name known to the ancients and which Linneus
used without any reference to his genus Selayo.)
LAGOTIS, Gaertn.
I. Calyx spathe-like, plane and 2-nerved on
II.
the back... ... ... ... ... L. giauca.
Calyx consisting of 2 oblong sepals.
1. Leaves cut to the midrib ... ... L. globosa.
2. Leaves crenate ... ... ... ... L. decumbens.
Figs. 4 and 5.
Lagotis giauca, Gaertn.
(Giauca means bluish -green.)
A perennial, fleshy herb ;
no runners ;
rootstock stout, with
thick fleshy root-fibres. Leaves fleshy, oblong-egg-shaped or
inversely egg-shaped, or elliptic or oblong, toothed or crenate,
radical ones 2-3 in. long, variable in breadth and toothing,
narrowed into a very stout stalk, stem-leaves 4-14 in., halfstem-clasping,
often quite entire. Flowering stems several,
3-10 in. high, decumbent below, stout, leafy above. Flowers
deep blue, purplish, rose or white, forming spikes 2-5 in. long.
Bracts inversely egg-shaped or elliptic, J-i in. long. Calyx
spathe-like, nearly as long as the corolla-tube or shorter,
lobes finely fringed. Corolla-tube curved, rather slender ;
limb 2-lipped ;
lower lip 2- or 3-cleft. Stamens 2, inserted
on the throat of the corolla ;
anthers kidney-shaped. Ovary
2-celled.
Flowers. June, July.
Locality. Aporwat ; Khelanmarg, open hill-side by water,
above 10,000 ft., common, at the foot of big rocks, near nala,
stony ground, 10,000 ft., very rare; Basam Gali, on top;
Damam Sar, 13,000-14,000 ft., abundant everywhere; Tosh
Maidan ; Thajwas Khur
; Mt., 14,000 ft.
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim,
10,000-17,000 ft., mountains of Central and N. Asia, arctic
Asia and America.