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734 Habitat: — Temperate and Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan.

A small, aromatic shrub, young parts covered with glandular scales. Leaves 7/10-lin. long, approximate at the ends of branches, sessile or subsessile, obovate or obtuse, or lanceolate and subacute ; glabrous above, silvery or brown tomentose beneath. Flowers red, yellow or purple, solitary or 2-3 together ; pedicels ½-1½in. long, very scabrous. Calyx-lobes oval, not ciliate. Corolla-tube short; lobes round, spreading, 1/5-⅓in. long. Stamens usually 8. Ovary 5-celled. Capsule 5-celled, ⅓ by 1/5in. Seeds oblong, acute.

Use : — To it are attributed the same medicinal properties as to R. Anthopogon.

Vern. :-— Tsallu (Bhutia and Tibetan).

Habitat : — Sikkim and Nepal.

A small shrub, 1ft. Branchlets bristly. Leaves ½ by ¼in., elliptic obovate, obtuse, scaly on both surfaces and often bristly beneath. Pedicels ¼in., glandular, scaly, 3 8-clustered, short. Calyx-lobes  1/6-¼in.,by ⅛-1/6in. obtuse, glandular, scaly, elliptic. Corolla red, tube very short, 1/5in., lobes ½ by ¼in., oblong spreading. Stamens 8, sometimes 10 ; filaments hairy below. Ovary 5-celled, glandular, scaly. Capsule ¼ by 1/5in., ovoid, hardly larger than the Calyx-lobes. Seeds ellipsoid, subacute at the ends ; testa close, not produced.

Use : — " The Sikkim Bhutias and Tibetans attribute the oppression and headaches attending the crossing of the loftiest passes to the strongly resinous odour of this and R. anthopogon. A useful volatile oil, of no less marked character than that of the American gaultheria, might probably be obtained from the foliage by distillation" (Hooker).

Vern. :— Nichni, rattankát, nera (Jhelum) ; Tazak-tsum ; Talis-far (Kashmir) ; Pálu (Bhutia).

Habitat : — Alpine Himalaya, from Kashmir to Bhotan.