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Plate 39] ANDROSACE 31
Locality. Bari La in Baltistan ;
Astor Valley ;
Barzil ;
Tilail ; Gilgit ; Zoji La.
Distribution. Hazara, inner ranges of Kashmir, 12,000-
13,000 ft., W. Tibet.
Androsace muscoidea, Duby.
(Muscoidea means moss-like.)
More or less tufted. Stems forked-branched, forming
broad, dense patches 6-10 in. diameter of crowded branches
and stolons 2-6 in. long, naked below or covered almost
throughout their length with little balls of leaves. Leaves
small, forming close-set little balls about i in. diameter,
stalkless, linear or oblong, blunt, curved inwards, greenishwhite,
entire, white-hairy, finally almost hairless. Flowerstalks
slightly longer than the leaves. Calyx 5-parted, very
hairy, lobes lance-shaped, blunt. Corolla-lobes inversely eggshaped,
blunt.
Locality. Gombur
;
Ladakh near Leh
;
Timti Pass.
Distribution. Apparently endemic in Kashmir.
Androsace primuloides, Duby. (= A. sarmentosa, var.
primuloides, Hook, f.) Primrose-like Androsace.
(Primuloides meanw resembling a Primrose.)
Stolons 2-4 in. long, lax, spreading, hairy when young,
finally hairless. Leaves radical, forming rosettes, very longwhite-hairy,
stalkless, lance-shaped or linear-lance-shaped, or
linear, entire, blunt, some f -5 in. long, appressed to the ground,
others much larger, ly-3f in. long, erect, often stalked.
Flowering stems 1-4 in. long, axillary, densely hairy. Flowerstalks
varying much in length. Bracts i-i in. long, mostly
narrowly oblong-lance-shaped, blunt, hairy, as long as the
flower-stalks or shorter. Calyx bell-shaped, densely hairy,
cleft to the middle or beyond, lobes lance-shaped, blunt.
Corolla flesh-coloured, tube as long as the calyx-lobes, lobes
round-inversely egg-shaped, limb J-f in. diameter.
Neaily related to A. sarmentosa, but can be distinguished by
its unequal bracts of which some are small, others much larger.
Distribution. Hazara, Kashmir, Kumaon.