CHAPTEE v.—HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF INDIAN SPECIES.
FKOM tliosB districts of the Himalayan province that come within the scope of the
descriptive portion oi this paper, there have been, so far, serenty species reported.
Fifty-five of these are capable ot complete description; thirteen liave not yet been collected
in fruit; one has been coUected in fruit, but not in flower; one is only represented
by leaf specimens and cannot therefore be described, all that may be predicated of it
being that it is not referable to any described specics, and that it most probably belongs
t o the sub-section EmifUmnthm of the SIPHOSANTHJ! or to the sub-section E,jf«»rhmantha,
of the EHYHCHOLOP».!!. Of the rest, 30 species belong to the division LOHSIKOSTEES, 2O
t o the ADUNCHI, and 14 to the EROSTRES.
The eariiest published descriptions ot Indian specics ot Pedicularis are those of
P. Oedtri-hom Scandinavian examples—in 1806' and ot P. httjjipra—kom Siberian
examples-in 1811,' but the first author to describe species from Indian examples was
Mr. D, Don, who published three species in 1825' and described a fourth as a Rhimntkus.
In 1828' Dr. Wallich issued sheets of what professed to be 13 species, 11 of these being
difiercnt from those described by Don, but only six of which now stand with Wallich'»
names; one of the six (P. carmsa) was described and figured by Wallich in 1831.= In
1834" a figure ot a South Indian species was published without specific name or description.
This species (P. aslanisa) had been issued by Wallich in 1829 as a Torà,a,
but was, along with tliree other new species, described from Indian specimens by
Mr Bentham in 1835.' In 1841-2* three Indian species were described from Siberian
specimens. In 1843" an Indian species issued by Wallich was differentiated and re-named
by Dr. Bunge, and was described under Bunge's name in the following year.» In this
year (1844)" M. Decaisne described and figm-ed two Indian species already distinguished
under other names by Don and Schrenk. In 1846" Mr. Bentham, while monographing
the genus, distinguished two more Indian species (P. TtTrottetii and P. Jlaadhru),
and described under a new name (P. caluUca = P. Mkhorrhisa) one already distinguished
by Schrenk. In 1850" Wight figured the two already-described South Indian species;
Boissier in 1853'' diagnosed still another Indian species from Persian examples;
and in 1862" Klotzsch described as new, and figured, five species, only two of which in
reality had previously been unknown or undifferentiated.
' ffoMwm , Oeion. Plajitd., ed. ii, p. 580.
= Mem. Peiersb. ir, 345.
s Pi-oiij.. Flor. Nrpal. 94, 95.
' LUhogv. Catalog., nn. 411-493.
' Plant. Asiat. Bar. ii, 44, t. 154.
' JBaikie, OUsr«. Silgler. App. Tiii, t. 2.
' ScrophalaylneiE Indicie, pp. 51—5.1.
5 Fisehsr and Meysr, Enum. Plant. Nos.
« Bull. Sc. Acad. Petersb. viii, 261,
Walp, Sep. iii, 415.
" Jaepiemcnfi Forage, Bet. 117. 118; tt. 123. 123.
•= PC. Prodr. s, pp. 5G5, B8L; 575.
'i leones tt. 1418, 1119.
C. SclrenVio lect. ]
Scr. i . 45.
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