Prain. Pedicularis, S C HEMA.
[to accompany Chap."Vl]
66 HISTORICAL ACCOTT.N-T; CONSPECTUS APFINITATUII,
The conspectus of affiaities of the Indian species in the next chapter is based on an
oxaminatioa of 181 speeiea preserved in the Calcutta Herbarium, but it could not have
been made so complete had it not been for the existence of the two synopses of the
genus, already so frequently quoted, prepared by Mr. Maximowicz in 1877 and 1888
respectively. These two articles are so excellent that after the closest study one is left
in doubt whether to admire most the minuteness of description and fidelity to detail
that they display, or the keen appreciation of affinities and clearness of exposition that
cliaracterise them.
In this conspectus there are here and there instances of a slightly different disposition
of individual species. This is to some extent due to the present coiispcctus having
been mainly di-awn up before the appearance of Mr. Masimowicz's newer synopsis. And
so because Mr. Maximowicz's revision is of such a nature that any attempt to supplement
it or proposal to alter it might easily become an impertinence, also because an independent
complementary view may prove of some use to other students of the genus, but not
because the present arrangement claims to be more natural than that of Mr. Maximowicz,
nor because it is not open to modification in many places, it is issued practically as it
stood before the appearance of Mr. Maximowicz's paper of 1888. The Indian species
are indicated by a heavier type.
CIIAPTEE VI.—CONSPECTUS AFFINITATUM.
Species Indicw typis lonicis imprimantur.
PEDICULARIS LINN.
CALYS ovatus campanulatus vel tubulosus saspissime antice et interdum postice iissus
apice 2—5-dentatus dentibus raro asqualibua lateralibus connatis vel liberis margine
dentatis postico siepius minore integerrimo nonnunquam deficiente. Corollai tubus £equalis
vel sursum ampliatus ; limbus 2-labiatus labio antico basi suberecto supra 2-cristato vel
subsessili ecristato lobls 3 saipius patentibus vel deflexis nonnunquam jequilatis intei-medio
tamen sspius minore rarissime majore, postico basi tubo continuo erecto rarissime sessili
in galeam ad antheras fovitum compressam producto, galea aut erostri et antice integra
vel sub apice utrinque dentata aut in rostrum gracile robustumve apice acutum truncatumve
integrum vel emarginatum 2-dentatum 2-fidumve abeunti. Stamina 4, didynama
sub galea asceiidentia, filamentis omnibus anticisve tantum hirsutis vel omnibus glabri» ;
anthera3 trausversa3 per paria approximate loculis distinctis aiqualibns parallclis basi mutici»
vel rarius aristatis. Stylus apice integer subcapitato-stigmatosus ; ovula amphitropa in
quoque loculo 4—oo ; (sfepissime indefinita). Capsula compressa ovata vel ovato-lanceolata,
sxpissime plus minus obliqua et sa^pe rostrata, loculicide dehiscens valvis medio septiferis
placentas ferentibus sed siepe diu ultra medium cohajrentibus. Semina in pai-te inferiore,
numero sat variabUia, ovata vel oblonga recta vel curva rarissime sphajrica, testa laxa
vel adpressa perforate reticulata vel foveolata striata rei multicostata.
Herbic perennes rarius forsan annuaD semiparasiticaì vel rarissime semisaprophytic«.
Folla alterna subopposita opposita vel 3—ó-natim verticillata semel pluriesve pinnatim
divisa rarius simpliciter dentata rarissime crenata floralia deerescentia pleraque bracteiformia,
Rhizoma scepo coHo squamis c<n-onatum. Flores saìpius centripeto nonnunquam
tamen centrifugo ordine aperti ad apices ramorum caulisque spicatim vel subcapitatim
conferti vel pedicellis evolutis racemosi siepe secundi, ebracteolati.
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