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112 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 51<br />
tube much longer than the calyx ; upper lip long, curved, very<br />
narrow. Nutlets almost globose.<br />
Flowers. May, June.<br />
Locality. Nasim Bagh ;<br />
near Shirazia Bagh ; Drogjun, on<br />
dry soil.<br />
Distribution. W. temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to<br />
Kumaon, 6,000-9,000 ft.<br />
Pigs. 2 and 3. Salvia hians, Boyle. Gaping Salvia. -<br />
A tall, robust, perennial, sticky-hairy herb. Leaves longstalked,<br />
egg-halbert- or egg-heart-shaped, toothed ;<br />
stalks<br />
often 10 in. long. Flower-whorls distant, few (6-) and laxflowered.<br />
Calyx broadly and shortly bell-shaped, upper lip<br />
entire, truncate, the lower longer with egg-shaped teeth.<br />
Corolla very large, li in. long, blue ;<br />
throat very inflated.<br />
Nutlets $ in. long, elliptic-inversely egg-shaped, compressed.<br />
Eesembles Salvia glutinosa, but can be distinguished by<br />
shorter racemes, longer leaf-stalks, broader leaves, blue flowers,<br />
broader calyx, larger corolla with the throat very inflated.<br />
Flowers. June to August.<br />
Locality. Gulmarg, margs and hills, grassy and rocky<br />
ground, above 8,000 ft., common; Tosh Maidan, 11,000-<br />
12,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. Kashmir, apparently endemic.<br />
Figs. 4 and 5. Salvia glutinosa, Linn.<br />
(Glutinosa means sticky.)<br />
A tall, perennial herb, viscidly hairy, strongly scented.<br />
Stems 2-3 ft. high. Leaves stalked, egg-shaped-oblong, 3-8 by<br />
li-4 in., crenate or sharply toothed, base usually prolonged<br />
outwards in 2 pointed lobes, rarely heart -shaped or tapering<br />
downwards stalk 1-3 in. ; long. Mower-whorls distant, fewand<br />
lax-flowered, forming large, branched, spreading panicles.<br />
Flowers 1-li in. long, yellow, upper lip purple, dotted. Bracts<br />
small, leaf-like. Calyx J in. long, broadly bell- shaped, upper<br />
lip entire, teeth of lower egg-shaped. Corolla 1-li in. long,<br />
tube longer than the calyx; upper lip long, curved, flattened,<br />
concave. Nutlets in. long, elliptic-inversely egg-shaped,<br />
compressed, smooth.<br />
Flowers June, July.<br />
Locality. Drang, above village, 7,000 ft. ;<br />
Gulmarg, woody<br />
hill-sides, common Ganderbal.<br />
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Distribution. Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir, 6,000-<br />
9,000 ft., to Sikkim, 10,000-12,000 ft., Afghanistan, W. Asia,<br />
S. Europe.
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