Tas. 6189. 
DELPHINIUM CASHMIRIANUM. 
Native of the Himalaya Mountains. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLacez.—Tribe HELLEBORE, 
Genus DeLpuinium, Linn, (Benth. and Hock., f. Gen. Plant., vol. i., p. 9.) 
DeLpxinium Cashmirianum; glabrum plus minus pilosum v. sericeo-pilosum, 
caule subsimplici erecto parce folioso, foliis radicalibus orbiculatis palma- 
tim 5-7-lobis, lobis cuneato-ovatis acutis inciso-dentatis, caulinis 3-5-par- 
titis, floribus laxe corymbosis, bracteis lanceolatis, bracteolis linearibus, 
floribus magnis azureis, sepalis oblongis obtusis, calcare paulo breviore 
conico robusto lente decurvo obtuso, petalis dorsalibus 2-lobis calcaribus 
elongatis, lateralibus oblique 2-lobis barbatis lobis obtusis. 
D. Cashmirianum. Royle, Ill. Bot. Himal., p. 55, t.12. Hook, f.et Thoms, Fl. Ind., 
p. 52, excl. synon. D, Jacqemontianum, Hook., f. Fl. Brit. Ind., v. i. p. 26. 
About a dozen species of Delphiniwm inhabit the Himalaya 
Mountains, of which the present is one of the handsomest. 
All are found at considerable elevations, and some of them 
that come from the loftiest spots, as D. Brunonianum, Royle 
(Tab. nost. 5461), exhale so strong a musky odour that the 
ignorant mountaineers attribute the odorous secretion of the 
musk-deer to the animals’ feeding on that plant, and of 
the D. glaciale, which is equally strongly scented. No 
such odour has been attributable to D. Cashmirianum, 
though it too occurs at great heights, ascending from 12,000 
to 15,000 feet in the Western Himalaya, where it ranges from 
the longitude of Kumaon to that of Kashmir, abounding in 
grassy valleys, &c. 
The subject of this plate was raised by J. Anderson 
Henry, Esq., from seed sent from the north part of Kashmir 
by Dr. Bellew, during his journey to Kashgar with Mr. 
Forsyth, and it flowered well at Hay Lodge, Trinity, in July 
of the present year. 
Descr. Whole plant except the inflorescence glabrous, 
but native specimens are glabrous, hairy, silky, or even almost 
hispid. Stem very simple, flexuous, one foot to one and a 
half foot high, slender, sparingly leafy. Radical \eaves 
orbicular, two to three inches in diameter, palmately five- to 
seven-lobed, the lobes coarsely acutely toothed and cut; petiole 
