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Plate 54] PHLOMIS 133
Fig. 4. Phlomis spectabilis, Falc.
Stems 4-6 ft. high, herbaceous, tall, stout, hairy or downy.
Leaves large, sometimes a foot broad, egg- heart-shaped, crenate
or smail-lobed, wrinkled, covered with star-shaped hairs
beneath, nerves beneath softly hairy ;
stalk 6-12 in. Whorls
many-flowered, axillary, 1^-2 in. diameter. Bracts filiform,
rigid, hairy. Calyx i-f in. long, hairy, teeth spine-tipped,
i shorter than the tube. Corolla rose or rose-purple galea
;
beautifully fringed with silvery hairs. Nutlets i in. long, linear.
Flowers. June.
Locality. Dachigam Eakh
;
Sind Valley.
Distribution. Kashmir, 3,000-8,000 ft., Afghanistan.
Phlomis cashmeriana,
Eoyle.
Stems several from a very stout rootstock, 2-3 ft. high,
erect, round, clothed with wool. Radical leaves long-stalked,
5-9 by 2-4 in., leathery, finely hairy above, nerves netted
beneath ;
stalk 4-6 in. Whorls many-flowered, 1-1 4 in.
diameter. Bracts numerous, f in. long, filiform, hairy, ciliate.
Calyx i-f in. long, hairy ;
teeth spine-tipped, half the length
of the tube. Corolla pale purple ; galea very large, hairy, not
fringed lower lip very broad, adze-shaped. Nutlets broadly
;
oblong, I in. long.
Locality. At elevations of 5,000-6,500 ft.
Distribution. Kashmir, Afghanistan.
Phlomis setigera,
Falc.
(Sctiyera means bearing bristles, alluding to the bracts.)
Stems tall, erect, nearly hairless or slightly hairy, 4-angled.
Leaves shorfc-stalked, eg-shapod, long-pointed, crenate, base
rounded or heart-shaped ; stalks i-1 in. long. Whorls manyflowered,
dense. Bracts short, rigid, covered with bristles,
tips spinous. Calyx i-J in. long, hairy ;
teeth erect, awlshaped,
ciliate, half as long as the tube. Upper lip almost
erect, inside and on the margin bearded with long hairs ;
midlobe of lower lip scarcely longer than the lateral ones.
Nutlets in. long, inversely egg-shaped, top truncate.
Locality. Palgam, 7,000 ft.
Distribution. Temperate Himalaya, from Kashmir to
Sikkim, 10,000-12,000 ft.