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58 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate M<br />
Fig. 9. Adelocaryum anchusoides, Brand. (= Paracaryum<br />
heliocarpum, A. Kerner).<br />
(Anchusoides means looking like Anchuta, a genus of Boraginaceae.)<br />
Eootstock stout, woody. Stem erect, simple, 1-3 ft. high,<br />
hairy. Eadical leaves long-stalked, elliptic-lance-shaped,<br />
i-1^ ft., including the stalk, f-lj- in. broad, more or less<br />
distinctly 3 -nerved, gradually narrowed into the stalk, stemleaves<br />
much smaller, stalkless. Racemes 4-10 in. long,<br />
forming a large lax panicle. Sepals ohlong, i in., 1-nerved,<br />
densely hairy. Corolla hlue, bell-shaped, in. long, limb cleft<br />
for f, lobes broadly egg-shaped, scales in the throat triangularoblong.<br />
Stamens attached to the middle of the tube, filaments<br />
slightly shorter than the anthers. Style | in. long. Nutlets<br />
almost round, in. diameter, margin broad-membranous,<br />
white, bent back, with lance-shaped hooked bristles.<br />
Flowers. June, July.<br />
Locality. Aporwat, flat damp places on grassy hill-side,<br />
about 12,000 ft., not common.<br />
Distribution. Temperate W. Himalaya.<br />
Adelocaryum Schlagintweitii, Brand. Schlagintweit's<br />
Adelocaryum.<br />
(After Schlagintweit who travelled and collected in the Himalayas.)<br />
A tufted plant, densely covered with bulbous-based hairs.<br />
Radical leaves long-stalked, lance-shaped or oblong, 2-3 in.<br />
long including the long stalk, J-i in. broad, blunt, narrowed<br />
into the stalk. Lower stem-leaves short-stalked, the upper<br />
stalkless and very small. Racemes lax, many-flowered.<br />
Sepals oblong, blunt, tV in. long, hairy. Corolla bell-shaped,<br />
i in. long, lobes broadly egg-shaped, shorter than the tube,<br />
scales in the throat almost half moon-shaped, broader than<br />
long. Stamens fixed to the lower part of the tube, filaments<br />
very short. Nutlets (of which 2 are usually not developed)<br />
boat-shaped, in the middle of the outer face keeled and<br />
covered with hooked hairs, J in. long, egg-shaped.<br />
Flowers. October.<br />
Locality. Dras<br />
; Kargil, between Suru and Tsringmat.<br />
Distribution. W. Himalaya.<br />
%.<br />
Adelocaryum flexuosum, Brand.<br />
A hairy plant. Stems slender, flexuose, 1 ft. high and<br />
more. Lower stem-leaves short-stalked, upper stalkless,<br />
oblong or lance-shaped, Is -If in. long, f-f in. broad, narrowed
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