the androecium and gynoecium. ‘The upper sepal (helmet) 
is, except for the coloured margin, herbaceous, and so 
narrow that in the fully open flower the large petaloid lips 
of the nectaries are outside, forming a roof over the 
androecium. ‘I'he true position of the sepals and nectaries 
is not clearly seen in dried specimens, and is not properly 
Shown in the figure of A. gymnandrum published in my 
monograph of the Indian Aconites. 
Descr.—Annual ; roots slender, fusiform. Stem erect, 
simple or branched, 6 in. to 3 ft. high, more or less hairy. 
Leaves petioled, hirsute, reniform to ovate, usually 3-2 in. 
long, 1-14 in. broad, ternate, or deeply tripartite, divi- 
sions similarly divided. Inflorescence racemose or subpani- 
culate, hirsute; lower bracts like upper leaves, reduced 
upwards ; pedicels erect, lowest 2—3 in. long, or all short; 
bracteoles narrow, close to the flower. Sepals violet to 
deep blue, hairy ; upper helmet-shaped, shortly beaked, 
claw narrow, 3-1 in. long; lateral abruptly contracted 
into a slender claw, limb turned outwards, about } in. 
long ; lower like lateral, but smaller. Nectaries with a 
claw, erect, almost s in. long ; hood cibbous behind near 
top, with large, denticulate, petaloid lip. Filaments his- 
pidulous, winged to the middle. Follicles usually 10-12, 
oblong, truncate, almost 4 in. long, more or less glabres- 
cent, at length slightly divergent above. Seeds inversely 
pyramidal, blackish, ;4 in. long, transversely minutely 
lamellate.—Orro Srapr, 
Figs. 1 and 2, nectaries; 3, a stamen ; 4, gynoecium :—all enlarged. 
