whence it extends into Northern Afghanistan, Baltistan 
and Northern Bashahr. The tubers are very small as 
compared with most of its congeners and are of indifferent 
taste; they produce none of the tingling sensation which 
distinguishes the poisonous Aconites. It has a consider- 
able altitudinal range, and on the Pensi-la it has been 
met with growing at 17,000 feet above sea-level; at these 
high altitudes, however, it becomes much dwarfed. The 
plant from which the material for this plate of Aconitiin 
rotundifolium has been obtained was purchased in 1912 
from Messrs. Regel & Kesselring of St. Petersburg, by 
whom it was issued as A. albo-violucewm, which is, however, 
a member of the section Lycoctonum. Grown in an open 
border at Kew the plant flowered in July under the 
conditions most suited for other members of the genus ; 
it did not, however, survive the winter. The specimen 
figured was not quite typical, the ultimate leaf-segments 
being more acute than usual, the filaments and claws of 
the nectaries being slightly hairy and the ovaries being 
nearly glabrous. Similar variations, however, may 
occasionally be observed in herbarium collections. 
Description.— Herb, 6-16 in. high; tubers geminai‘e ; 
that of the new season obconic or subcylindric, }—1 in. 
long, {~-} in. across, beset with long fibrils, in cross- 
section white, cortex thin pale tawny, the cambium 
broken up into 4-5 thin scattered cylinders ; old tuber 
blackish ; stems erect or ascending, terete, crisply hairy 
or villous upwards with somewhat spreading hairs, 
glabrescent below. Leuvex, some basal arranged in a 
rosette, with rather long petioles, in wild specimens 
appearing with the flowers, in cultivated plants already 
withering before the flowers open, others regularly dis- 
_ posed along the stem, the petioles rapidly shortening 
_ upwards ; lamina in outline orbicular-cordate or somewhat 
reniform with a narrow sinus, }~1} in. long from sinus to 
tip, 7-2} in. wide, palmately 5-7 -partite to 4#ths the 
Jength of leaf-blade, the segments wide obovate-cuneate, 
3-lobed, or the outermost 2-lobed, lobes sparingly crenate 
or incised-crenate, the crenations rather blunt or some- 
times shortly acute; segments of the upper leaves less 
divided, with narrower lobes and crenations, all glabrous 
