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Aconitum CHINENSE. CHINESE MoNKS-HOOD. 
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Class and Order. 
PoLyAnDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Ranuncutacez. ) 
Generic Character. 
Calyx petaloideus irregularis deciduus vel marcescens, 
sepalo nempé superiore concayo cassideformi. Petala 
2 superiora (cuculli, nectaria) longé unguiculata apice in 
saccum expansa sub galea recondita——Folia palmatisecta. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Aconrrum Chinense ; elatum robustum, caule glabro, foliis 
inferioribus petiolatis amplis profunde tripartitis seg- 
mentis cuneatis incisis lateralibus profunde bifidis, su- 
_ perioribus sessilibus 3—5-fidis laciniis subintegerrimis, 
racemis compositis, pedicellis superne pilosis, calycis 
galea elevatim venosa vertice obtusissima apice acuta, 
_ Nectariis calcare brevissimo. =~ Si iis 
Aconrrum Chinense. ‘ Sieboldt.” ‘ Paxt. Mag. of Bot. 
Feb. 1838,” with a figure. me / 1 i 
Of the history of this fine, showy Aconitum, I know no- 
thing further than that the plant has been kindly commu- 
_nicated to me by Dr. Granam from the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden, and that Srevper in his new ‘‘ Nomenclator Bota- 
nicus,” gives it as an inhabitant of China, and assigns Dr. 
Sirzotpt as the authority for the name. It is probably 
cultivated in China: but of its specific merits I am alto- 
gether incompetent to speak, in a Genus so liable to vary, 
and so apt to produce hybrids. This 1s a stately and a 
hardy species ; the blossoms co jous, large, and of a pecu- 
liarly deep and vivid purple colour. ~The species w! 1 be- 
long to De Canpouie’s Sect. IV. NapeLLus. 
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