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64 BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS OF KASHMIR [Plate 45
pointed, smooth, shining, scar small at the base on the inner
side.
Eesembles Mertensia echioides, but can be distinguished by
the short corolla and the longer filaments.
Flowers. May to August.
Locality. Tangmarg, forests, 7,200-8,700 ft. ; Gulmarg,
amongst rocks in wood and by watercourses, 8,000 ft.,
common.
Distribution. Kashmir, Afghanistan.
ERITRICHIUM, Schrad.
(From the Greek erion, wool, and trix, trichos, hair, alluding to the
hairiness of most species.)
1. Leaves 1| by i in., linear, silky-hairy E. strictum.
2. Leaves f by i in., elliptic, with sharp
hairs E. tibeticum.
3. Leaves $ by in., broadly lanceshaped,
softly hairy ... ... E. basifixum.
Fig. 6. Eritrichium strictum, Dene, (excluding var.
Thomson! in Hooker's "Flora of British India").
(Strictum means strict, alluding to the stems.)
A perennial herb, silky-white. Eootstock woody. Sfcems
2-8 in. high, many, undivided. Leaves linear, li by in.,
softly-silky, lowest ones larger, scarcely stalked. Racemes
1-3 in. long, branched, with very small bracts in the upper
part. Flowers i in. diameter, blue. Sepals 5, in fruit
rV-rV in. long, oblong. Nutlets forming a pyramid, iV-rV in.
high, with hooked bristles on fche margin whose bases are
united.
Flowers. August.
Locality. Hills above Lian Marg on big rocks, about
11,000 ft. ;
Balfcistan.
Distribution. Vf .
Himalaya, 7,000- 13,000 ft., from Kashmir
to the Sutlej.
Eritrichium tibeticum, C. B. Clarke. Tibetan Eritrichium.
A lax, weak, spreading herb. Stems 2-10 in. high, many,
slender. Leaves elliptic, mostly stalked, f by i in. or smaller,
blunt, covered with stiff hairs. Eacemes long, in fruit 6 in.
long. Flower-stalks i in. long. Flowers 5 in. diameter.
Calyx-lobes egg-shaped-oblong, xV in. long. Nutlets iV in.
long, egg-shaped, shining, margins entire, somewhat prominent.
Locality. Ladakh.
Distribution. W. Himalaya, 9,000-10,000 ft.