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Plate 52] NEPETA 115<br />
B. Leaves distinctly stalked.<br />
I. Calyx ^ in. long<br />
N. raphanorhiza.<br />
II.<br />
Calyx J-i in. long.<br />
1. Flowers not more than \ in. long.<br />
a. Teeth of calyx as long as the<br />
tube.<br />
aa. Leaves 1J-4 in. long<br />
bb. Leaves i in. long<br />
b. Teeth of calyx shorter than<br />
the tube.<br />
aa. Corolla rose-coloured<br />
bb. Corolla white, dotted with<br />
purple (fig. 5) ...<br />
cc. Corolla blue<br />
N. spicata.<br />
N. discolor.<br />
N. molln.<br />
N. Cataria.<br />
N. Clarke?.<br />
2. Flowers more than i in. long.<br />
a. Flowers yellow (fig. 2)<br />
6. Flowers not yellow.<br />
aa. Leaves 2 in. long<br />
bb. Leaves 1-H in. long (fig. 6)<br />
cc. Leaves 2-3 in. long (fig. 3)<br />
N. Govaniana.<br />
N. longilwacteata.<br />
N. salviaefolia.<br />
N. crecta.<br />
The plants figured on Plate 52 will be described first.<br />
The rest will follow in alphabetical order.<br />
Fig. 1. Nepeta connata, Royle.<br />
(Connata means grown together, referring<br />
to the bases of the leaves.)<br />
Rootstock tuberous. A tall, stout herb. Stem simple,<br />
1-2 ft. high, hairless or woolly. Leaves stalkless, lanceshaped<br />
or narrowly linear-lance-shaped, long-pointed, entire,<br />
sometimes toothed, 3-6 by i-f in., leathery, heart-shaped<br />
and stem-clasping at the base and often more or less united.<br />
Flower-spikes 1-5 in. long, oblong, dense, or interrupted at the<br />
base. Bracts lance-awl-shaped, ciliate. Floral leaves egglance-shaped,<br />
long-pointed. Calyx stalked, hairy, 4 in. long,<br />
teeth very long-awned, as long as the tube. Corolla blue,<br />
a little longer than the calyx. Stamens included. Nutlets<br />
TV in. long, round, compressed, brown, shining.<br />
Locality. Sonamarg.<br />
Distribution. W. temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to<br />
Dalhousie, 8,000-11,000 ft.
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