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11. D. viacosum, H.f, & T. FL Ind, 52 ; stem covered with soft brown 

 tonieutum, leaves reniform palmately 5-7-lobed, lobes obtusely crenate, 

 flowers corymbose. 



Alpixe East Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 12-16,000 ft., HooTcf. 



otem 1-2 ft., branched from the base. Leaves 2-4 in. diam., at length glabrate, 

 wbed to near the middle. Flower solitary or few at the ends of the branches of the 

 coryrab; bracts S-partite ; bracteoles linear-oblong. Sepals | in., broadly oval, pale 

 ue, purple, tomentose, membranous, eoualling the conical incurved spur. Follicles 3, 

 glabrous, ciliate on the suture. 



12. p. grlaclale, Il.f. ^ T. Fl Ind. 53; stem softly hairy, leaves 

 ^partite, lobes deeply multifid, flowers in lax corymbs. 



Alpine East Himalaya ; Sikkim, alt. 16-18,000 ft. 

 «tem 3-6 in., simnlp. Ipafv Jpn^^flo 9_^ I'n rlinm cprr 



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^^^mi^a: Fhwers large, hairy. Sepals exceeding 1 in., orbicular, membranons, 

 %er than the short St '^- * ' ^. - . J . ...> . t. . .r 



a rank musk odour. 



raight conical spur. Follicles 4-5, 



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, J 7 ■ *"monianuin, HoT/le III. 56 ; stem glabrous or downy below 

 Pf.™'a^-pubescent above, leaves 5-fid to the middle, lobes sharply cut or 

 wothed, flowers corymbose, ffj. d- T. Fh Ind. 53 ; Hook Bot. Mag. t. 5461. 

 T; ''^qpemontianum, Camb. in Jacq. Voy. Bot. 8, t. 7 ; D. moschatum, 

 ^mro m H.f. ^ T, Fl. Ind. 53. 



ALm-EWESTTlBET, alt. 14,000 ft. 



Oetior *'~^2 ''^•' sirnple below, leafj. Leaves 3-4 in. diam., lobes cuneate-ovafe ; 

 bractsV^^'^^ long- Flowers large, pale-blue, hairy; corymbs sometimes compound ; 

 reiiJ^ 1 '^*'^'*^' "PP®^ simple, oblong or linear. Sepals \ in., membranous, orbicular, 

 plant m l"^^"" *^'''" ^^^ ^""'c SP"""- Follicles 5-6, } in., viscidly pubescent ; whole 

 tenor nlfi'T'^' 'moschatum was distinguished by the colour and texture of the pos- 

 Petal, which proves to be very variable. 



War, f ri*^"™' -^^» *« -^em. Wern. Soc. iii. 412 (D. Garcia, Don Prodr 19o), 

 is desoril ^ J '"'■°™ -^ oZ^Wwjm, aTul vcstitum chiefly in the glabrous follicles ; it 

 Aian H 1 •*^™ 'P*' specimens of Wallich, but none thus named exist in the Walli- 



Herbarium. 



froJ'r^?*^ °^* ^e'i>^inwm closely allied to D. incanum were brought by Dr Hooker 



Wdniir '^"'^'^ of Sikkim ; it differs fram D. incanum in the slightly notched petals, 

 ^"»ay be new. 



Larbjj;^^''''""'. ^o» Prodr-. 196, is doubtless the cultivated D. Ajads or common 



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Zeaivs palmatipartite, rarely 



Sepah 5, 



entire p/' ^^^?*^' ^^^^^y twining, herbs. _. 



P«taloid -!^ri irregular, racemed, blue purple white or yellow. 



*he WioP^^'^'^"^ (helmet) vaulted, the rest flat, 2 anterior narruwci v^». 



tte heS , , ^« 2-5 ; 2 posterior clawed, Umb hooded and enclosed ir 



•W» man ' 1°^®"" »"^all or obsolete. Stamens many. Follicles 3-o, sessile 



species^abo V f ^^^ ^Pon&T, rugose or wrinkled.-DisTBiB. North temp, zone 



fpi ^out 183, * ' 



SsVT'J'^ alj the species, except A. Lycodonttm, A. keteroph/lhm, ftn^ cert^n 

 ^^"^ omitt;^''"'^' '^^^ poisonous, and called Bikh or Bish by the Hill people. We 

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