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128 BEAUTIFUL FLOWEKS OF KASHMIR [Plate 53
Scutellaria angulosa, Benth.
(Angulosa, angular, referring to the angular branches.)
A tall, sparsely hairy herb. Stems very stout below.
Branches rambling for several feet, 4-angled, angles with
slender ribs. Leaves 1-3 in. long, egg- or lance-shaped, blunt
or sharp-pointed, coarsely crenate, base rounded or almost
heart-shaped, with a few small, scattered hairs, often purple
beneath ;
stalk -i in. long. Racemes 3-4 in. long, hairy,
axillary or terminal. Bracts all leafy, upper small, entire.
Flowers f-1 in. long, pale yellow or nearly white, tip tinged
with purple. Corolla slightly narrowed at the base, throat
widened. Nutlets granulate.
Locality. Temperate region.
Distribution. W. and Central Himalaya, from Kashmir to
Nepal, 4,000-9,000 ft.
AJUGA, Linn.
(Said to be a corruption of the Greek aguios, weak in limbs,
because A jug a reptans was used against gout, for which reason it
was also called Iva arthrilica.)
1. Stamens protruding A. bracteosa.
2. Stamens included A. parviflora.
Fig. 5. Ajuga bracteosa, Wall.
(Bracteosa means that the bracts form a conspicuous feature.)
A softly hairy herb. Steins erect or ascending, usually
diffusely branching from the base, 4-12 in. high, usually stout
and leafy. Leaves 1-4 in. long, egg-shaped, toothed or nearly
entire, lower ones stalked, upper stalkless. Flower-whorls
axillary or crowded in spikes which are much shorter than
the leafy egg-shaped or wedge- inversely egg-shaped, entire or
toothed bracts. Flowers nearly i in. long, pale blue or lilac.
Calyx in. long, hairy teeth half the length of the tube,
;
egg-lance-shaped. Corolla-tube nearly twice as long as the
calyx; upper lip erect, 2-fid ;
side lobes of lower oblong,
midlobe dilated, variable in length. Stamens protruding.
Nutlets TO- in. long, ellipsoid, deeply pitted.
Flowers May . .
Locality. Dachigam Rakh, on rocks ;
hill above Sarban
Lake, in cleft of rocks
; Wangat Nala Takht.
;
Distribution. Abyssinia, Afghanistan, from Peshawar to
Oudh, W. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal, 1,000-7,000 ft.,
China, Japan.