Tas. 8170. 
DELPHINIUM canpipum. 
Tropical Africa. 
RANUNOCULACEAR. Tribe HELLEROREAER. 
Detpuinium, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 9. 
Delphinium (Macrocentra) candidum, Hemsl.; species ex affinitate D, macro- 
centri, D. Oliv. (B. M. t. 8151), a quo differt racemis subtrifloris, floribus 
albis, sepalis omnibus aequaliter divergentibus, calcare gracili curvato et 
filamentis ciliatis. 
Tlerba perennis, nana, obscure puberula, caulibus subtrifloris. Folia radicalia 
longe petiolata, ambitu orbicularia, palmatim alte 5-lobata, lobis latis 
3-lobulatis dentatisque, circiter 10-12 cm. diametro; petioli teretes, basi 
tantum leviter dilatati, 20-36 cm. longi. Folia caulina pauca, similia, 
profundius partita, lobis angustioribus. /7ores candidi, antheris purpureis, 
suaveolentes, circiter 6 cm. diametro, obscurissime puberuli; pedicelli 
pubescentes, graciles, 3-4 cm. longi, bracteolis 2 linearibus 5-7 mm. longis 
instructi. Sepala fere aequalia, orbiculari-ovata, 2-2°5 cm. lata, patentia, 
superius et 2 inferiora abrupte obtuseque acuminata, omnia pilis longis 
albis obscuris parce vestita et extus prope apicem macula viridi incrassata 
ornata; calear gracile, bis curvatum, acutum, rugulosum, 4-5 cm. longum. 
Petalorum 2 superiorum calcaratorum (nectaria auctorum nonnullorum) 
limbus glaber, obliquus, dolabriformis, inaequaliter bifidus, 1:5 em. longus, 
8mm. latus, stamina superans. Petala 2 lateralia (staminodia auctorum 
nonnullorum) puberula, ligulata, apice latiora, 3-dentata, quam stamina 
breviora. Staminodia vera (?) 3, linearia, antica, quam stamina breviora 
(an semper adsunt?). Stamina numerosissima ; filamenta membranacea, 
ciliata, diverse dilatata, exteriora latiora, interdum unilateraliter dilatata 
et apice 1-dentata, interiora fere omnino filiformia. Carpel/a (matura non - 
visa) 3, dense tomentosa, quam stamina breviora. 
Delphinium candidum belongs to a small group of species 
confined, so far as is at present known, to the mountains of 
tropical East Africa. It is compared above with D. macro- 
centron, D. Oliv., because that species is in cultivation ; but 
it is more nearly allied to D. Leroyi, Franch. (Engl. Jahrb. 
vol. xx. p. 474) and D. Wellbyi, Hemsl. (Kew Bull, 1907, 
p. 360). The former differs in having more hairy flowers, 
obovate-spathulate sepals and glabrous filaments; the latter 
is a more robust plant with very hairy, blue flowers, rounded, 
not acuminate, sepals, entire lateral petals and less dilated 
filaments. 3 
The plant figured was raised in the gardens at Hindlip 
Hall, Worcester, from seed collected by Lady Hindlip, in 
Decemser, 1907, 
