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28 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 39<br />
coloured, tube shorter than the calyx-lobes, lobes wedgeinversely<br />
egg-shaped, scarely notched, limb J-J in. diameter.<br />
Capsule 1-2-seeded. Seeds large, oblong, plano-convex.<br />
Flowers. May, June.<br />
Fruits. June, July.<br />
Locality. Khelanmarg, 10,000 ft. ;<br />
Tosh Maidan, 10,000ft.,<br />
abundant, along top of ridge below Basam Gali in<br />
; open<br />
situations above 10,000 ft., common on slopes below Pass.;<br />
Gulmarg, 11,000-12,000 ft. ; Budgukod Sind<br />
; Valley Barzil<br />
;<br />
and Tilail, 12,000-13,000 ft.<br />
Distribution. From Kashmir to Simla.<br />
Fig. 4. Androsace aizoon, Duby.<br />
(Aizoon is derived from the Greek aei, always, and zoon, a<br />
living creature, so called because the plant lives under almost any<br />
treatment.)<br />
Koot up to | in. thick, vertical. Leaves i-1 in. long,<br />
i-fr in. broad, forming rosettes, leathery, bluish-green, spoonshaped,<br />
mucronate, hairless, covered with tiny white globules<br />
especially towards the tip, shortly ciliate. Flowering stem<br />
7-20 in. long, many times longer than the leaves, erect.<br />
Bracts i-| in. long, much shorter than the numerous flowerstalks,<br />
lance-shaped, hairy. Calyx bell-shaped, cleft to the<br />
middle, lobes egg-shaped-triangular, blunt. Corolla fleshcoloured<br />
or red, somewhat fleshy, tube almost as long as the<br />
calyx-lobes, lobes bifid with 2 bifid appendages or inversely<br />
egg-shaped, limb i in. diameter. Capsule with bifid valves.<br />
Seeds large, angular, rough.<br />
Locality. Sonamarg.<br />
Distribution. W. Himalaya, 8,000-11,000 ft., China.<br />
Fig. 5. Androsace rotundifolia, Hardw. Kound-leafed<br />
Androsace.<br />
A very variable plant. No stolons. Perennial. Glandularhairy<br />
or densely long-hairy. Leaves all radical, i-li in.<br />
diameter, stalked, round-kidney-shaped, mostly 7-lobed, lobes<br />
again 3-lobed, stalks 1^-3 in. long, 2-5 times as long as the<br />
blade. Flowering stems few to many, 1-7 in. long, manyflowered<br />
;<br />
bracts short or long, broad or narrow, wedge-shaped<br />
or inversely egg-shaped or linear, sometimes f in. long and<br />
often crenate or 3-5-cleft at the broad end. Calyx cleft; to the<br />
middle or beyond, lobes egg-shaped, recurved in fruit, fruiting
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