PHARMACOGRAPHIA INDICA. 
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RANUNCULACEA,. 
ACONITUM FEROX, maul. 
Fig.—Bentl. and Trim., t. 5, Indian Aconite, Nepaul 
-Aconite (Zng.), and one or more other species = poisonous 
Aconite growing ii Northern India. 
hee le 
ab.—Temperate sub- alpine re from. — to 
_ Garhwal, The tubers. 
, = Verivionlay =“ tiak or Bikh, derived from i Sanskrit Visha, 
’ Bachnég (Hind. ), Bachnéb (Bomb.), Vash anavi (Tam.); _ 
| Vasanabhi (Tel. dioants from eid Vatsandbha, — 
Cr ¢ (@uz.). 
History, Uses, ar greater part: oF the igs is 
generally supposed to be .derivéd from A. ferox, but we have 
no very exact information upon this point. 
Aconitum luridum, H. f. and T., is found in Sikkim; A, 
_ Lycoctonum, Linn., from Kashmir t6 Kumaon, “4, Napellus, 
Linn., along the temperate alpine Himalaya in four varieties, 
| viz., proper, rigidum, multifidam, and rotundifolium. 
_ palmatum, Don, in the Hastern temperate Himalaya from 
 Garhwal to Manipur. The last ‘species is considered ee 16 
— of — not = be poisonous. Dr. G —— & 
srate to such an extent as to say that their fuk i 
ght kinds which = be esas that known s 
