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Plate 39] ANDROSACE 27<br />
triangular awl-shaped, sharp-pointed, green. Corolla white<br />
or rose-coloured, tube shorter than the calyx-lobes, lobes<br />
inversely egg-shaped, blunt, slightly longer than the calyxlobes,<br />
limb i-J in. diameter. Seeds 5-10, small, angular,<br />
granulate.<br />
Locality. Zoji La<br />
; Shatung La, 12,800-14,800 ft. ;<br />
Karakoram and Deosar,<br />
12,000-14,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. W. Himalaya, Europe, W. and N. Asia,<br />
N. America.<br />
Fig. 2. Androsace sarmentosa, Wall.<br />
(Sarmentosa means being provided with stolons or runners.)<br />
Stolons 2-5 in. long. Leaves forming rosettes, none on the<br />
stem, |-1| in. long, i-f in. broad, more or less woolly, the<br />
young ones silvery hairy, finally hairless, always stalkless,<br />
lance-shaped, sharp-pointed, entire. Flowering stems hairy,<br />
about 5 times as long as the leaves, measuring usually about<br />
4 in. Bracts 2 in. long, linear-lance-shaped, hairy. Flowerstalks<br />
many, 3-4 times as long as the bracts, woolly. Calyx<br />
cleft to the middle, lobes triangular, blunt. Corolla pale pinkpurple<br />
or rose-coloured, tube as long as the calyx-lobes, lobes<br />
round-inversely egg-shaped, blunt, entire, limb 1-iin. diameter.<br />
Flowers. June, July.<br />
Locality. Basam Gali, abundant on slopes below Pass ;<br />
Tosh Maidan along top of ridge Aporwat above Gulmarg,<br />
;<br />
open rocky and scrubby hill-side, above 10,500 ft.<br />
Distribution. Himalaya, from Kashmir to Nepal, Yunnan.<br />
Note. Hooker's varieties yrandifolia, primuloides and/ofo'osa<br />
mentioned in the " Flora of British India " are not included in<br />
this<br />
species.<br />
Fig. 3. Androsace sempervivoides, Jacquem.<br />
(Sempervivoides means resembling the Sempervivum or Common<br />
House- Leek.)<br />
Stolons 1-2 in. long, ^V in. thick, naked, producing rosettes<br />
of leaves J in. diameter. Leaves J-J in. long, xVi in. broad,<br />
cartilaginous, densely packed, egg-spoon-shaped, glabrous,<br />
with ciliate margins. Flowering stems 3-5 times as long as<br />
the leaves, solitary, slightly glandular ;<br />
bracts<br />
- in. long,<br />
lance-shaped. Flower-stalks short, stout ;<br />
umbels glandularhairy.<br />
Calyx bell-shaped, glandular-hairy, cleft almost to the<br />
middle, lobes egg-lance-shaped, sharp-pointed. Corolla flesh-
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