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12 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 86
and broad, conic, lobed half-way down, deep blue. Fruit a
capsule, f by ^ in., narrowly oblong or almost linear, contracted
near the summit. Seeds very small, ellipsoid.
Flowers. July, August.
Locality. Above Gulmarg, open hill-sides, above 11,000 ft.,
common
;
Tosh Maidan to Damam Sar, 13,000 ft. ; Charpat,
among short grass of the Juniper tract.
Distribution. Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Sikkim,
11,000-16,000 ft.
Pig. 6. Campanula argyrotricha, Wall. Silver-haired Bellflower.
Collett, fig. 89.
(From the Greek argyros, silver, and triches, hairs.)
Stems many, 4-8 in. long, weak, procumbent, thread-like,
hairy. Leaves nearly stalkless, thin, egg-shaped, f by 4 in.,
often smaller, toothed or nearly entire, softly silvery-hairy
with a few long hairs interspersed. Flowers blue, longstalked,
solitary or in racemes. Calyx-teeth in. long, ellipticoblong,
entire, rarely with a few teeth. Corolla l-f in. long,
sparingly hairy outside. Fruit a capsule, I in. diameter,
rounded at the base.
Locality. Sind Valley.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon,
8,000-11,500 ft.
Pig. 7. Campanula alsinoides, Hook. f. & T.
(Alsinoides
means resembling Ahinc.)
Stems slender, very many from a woody root, 4-8 in. long,
hairy. Leaves J-S by 1-i in., oblong-egg-shaped, almost
stalkless, indistinctly toothed, hairy on both surfaces, thin,
herbaceous. Flower-stalks i-1 in., slender. Flowers white
with fine red lines, centre green. Fruit a capsule, -k in.
diameter, rounded at the base.
Flowers. August.
Locality. Above Lian Marg, crevices of
about
rocks^,
11,000 ft. Kishtwar.
;
Distribution. N.W. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Garhwal,
8,000-11,000 ft.