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Plate 39] ANDROSACE 29<br />
calyx J-i in. diameter, sometimes much enlarged and nearly<br />
1 in. diameter and sharply toothed or 3-fid at the tip.<br />
Corolla deep pink, varying to nearly white, usually much<br />
larger than the calyx, but when the latter is enlarged it<br />
becomes very small, lobes egg-shaped, entire or notched.<br />
Capsule much smaller than the calyx. Seeds very small,<br />
rounded.<br />
Flowers. May, June.<br />
Locality. Steep hill-sides south of Sarban Lake ; Tangmarg,<br />
dry banks and roadsides, 7,200-8,700 ft. ;<br />
Gadsar ;<br />
near<br />
Shirazia Bagh ; Dachigam Kakh<br />
; Gulmarg, banks above<br />
paths and in loose rocky soil, above 7,000 ft., common.<br />
Distribution. Afghanistan, temperate Himalaya, 5,000-<br />
11,000 ft., from Hazara and Kashmir to Kumaon, W. Tibet.<br />
Androsace Chamaeiasme, Host.<br />
(Chamaciasme is derived from the Greek chainai, on the ground<br />
or low, and iasme, the name of a sweft-smelling oil or the plant<br />
itself which was known to the ancients as coming from Persia.)<br />
A very variable plant, stoloniferous. Leaves f in. long,<br />
xVi in. broad, forming rosettes, lance-shaped, quite entire,<br />
narrowed into the stalk, on both sides almost hairless, longciliate<br />
on the margins. Flowering stems 1-5 in. long, 2-8-<br />
flowered, densely hairy. Bracts as long as the flower-stalks<br />
or shorter, lance-shaped or lance-egg-shaped, densely hairy,<br />
sharp-pointed. Calyx bell-shaped, cleft beyond the middle,<br />
lobes hairy, lance-shaped, blunt. Corolla white, tube as long<br />
as the calyx-lobes, lobes notched, limb i-J in. diameter,<br />
throat yellow, finally red. Seeds few, iVi* in. long.<br />
Locality. Burjila Karakoram, 12,000-15,000 ft.<br />
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Distribution. W'.<br />
Himalaya, from Kashmir to Kumaon,<br />
W. Tibet, Europe, Arctic Kussia, Central and N. Asia, N.<br />
America.<br />
Androsace foliosa, Duby.<br />
Leafy Androsace.<br />
This is Androsace sarmentosa var. foliosa, Hook. f. in the<br />
" Flora of British India."<br />
Stolons stout, naked. Leaves all radical, scarcely forming<br />
rosettes, the lower ones shorter, inversely egg-shaped, glabrous,<br />
stalkless, narrowed towards the base, ciliate, the upper ones<br />
alternate, egg-shaped or lance- to inversely egg-shaped, quite<br />
entire, ciliate, narrowed into the winged stalk which is
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