its being regarded as a different species. The original 
figure and description of D. cashmirianum in Royle’s 
** Botany of the Himalaya Mountains” represent a slender 
hirsute plant, with flowers of the same size and form of 
that here figured, but with more sharply-cut leaves and 
more racemose flowers with pale blue petals. The only 
other figure of this species is that given at Plate 6189 of 
this work, which represents a nearly glabrous plant, with 
the leaves of Royle’s, but more corymbose larger violet- 
blue flowers with black and green petals. In the Herbarium 
there is every intermediate between glabrous and hirsute 
stem-leaves and flowers, and between sharp and obtuse 
lobes of the leaf, but the inflorescence is always more or 
less corymbose, as in Mr. Walker’s plant, which distin- 
guishes cashmirianum from vestitum, in which the flowers 
form a strict erect elongate raceme. 
A further presumption in favour of var. Walkeri being 
an abnormal form is seen in the condition of some of the 
uppermost and floral leaves, which are reduced to small 
ovate or ovate-cordate long-petioled three-nerved blades, 
only half an inch long, quite entire or obscurely lobed at 
the side. I find no organs like these in any other species 
of the genus; they are, no doubt, altered states of the 
bracts, which Royle figures as oblong and sessile. Lastly, 
though I find no specimen of D. cashmirianwm with an 
abbreviated leafy many-flowered stem like that of this 
variety, almost stemless solitary-flowered specimens occur. 
Mr. Walker has been good enough to send to Kew living 
plants of another Himalayan Larkspur, which differs from 
this and from the normal forms of D. cashmirianum in the 
pentagonal five-lobed leaves, and which, if it prove sufficiently 
distinct from those previously figured, will find a place in 
this work.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Petals; 2, stamens :—both enlarged. 
