Tas. 4693. 
AQUILEGIA Kawnaoriensts. 
Kanaor Columbine. 
Nat. Ord. RanuncuLace#.—PoLyYANDRIA PENTAGYNIA. 
Gen. Char. Calyx 5-sepalus, deciduus, colorato-petaloideus ; petala 5, superne 
hiantia, bilabiata, labio superiore magno plano, interiore minimo, deorsum pro- 
ducto in calcaria totidem cava apice callosa inter sepala exserta. Ovaria 5. 
Capsule totidem, erecte; polysperme, stylis acuminate. De Cand. 
Aquiteera Kanaoriensis ; caule petiolis pedunculisque glanduloso-puberulis, cal- 
caribus rectis foliola calycina eequantibus, limbo petalorum obovato, stami- 
nibus stylisque petalis brevioribus, fructibus pilosiusculis. Cambess. 
Aguiteeia Kanaoriensis. Jacquem. MS. Cambess. in Jacquem. Voy. Bot. p. 7. 
t.5. Walp. Repert. Bot. v. 1. p. 51. 
In the present species of Columbine, sent from Western 
Himalaya to the Royal Gardens of Kew by Dr. Thos. Thomson, 
we cannot boast of flowers to be compared with the American 
Aquilegia leptoceras, which we figured at our Tab. 4407; but 
we have here a plant in all respects much more nearly resem- 
bling our 4. vulgaris, yet distinguished from it in all the speci- 
mens we have seen, both wild and cultivated, by the erect, not 
incurved, spurs of the petals, and the glandularly pubescent pe- 
duncles and flowers (externally). I am aware that Dr. Thomson, 
who has seen the plant abundantly in its native locality, and 
Dr. Hooker, who is at this moment engaged with him in a 
careful investigation of all the Indian Ranunculaceae, are of 
opinion that this can only be considered a form of our J. vul- 
gris, and that they have seen what they consider intermediate 
states. Assuredly in our Garden the two have a very different 
appearance and tangible characters. M. Jacquemont found it at 
Kanaor, and between Cashmere and Tibet, at elevations of from — 
3450 to 3500 metres; Dr. Thomson in the upper part of the 
the Piti valley, and in all the drier parts of North-west Himalaya, 
from Cashmere to Kamaon, at elevations varying from 10,000 to 
JANUARY Ist, 1853. 
