852 
Plants of the Punjab. 
Herss, Erect, with ALTERNATE ExstiepuLATE Losep LEAVES. 
Delphintum 
‘eashmirianum, 
Amlin. 
RANUNCULACES. 
BB 1.4. 26. 
Himalaya, 
11-16,000 ft. 
Kashmir. 
Aconitum 
Lycoctonum, 
RANUNCULACES. 
Bb. ti. 20. 
Himalaya, 
7-11,000 ft. 
Baghi Forest 
(Collett). 
Kashmir. 
The Chor. 
Aconitum Napellus, 
Aconitum 
heterophylium, 
Atis, sukhihar. 
RANUNCULACES. 
i, he be ov 
Himalaya, 
8-12,000 ft. 
Fagu, Narkanda 
(Collett). 
Mahasu, Kashmir, 
Hazara. 
PETALS UNUNITED. 
like the last species, but more softly hairy, smaller, 
flowers in a flat-topped cluster, formed of few-flowered 
racemes, spur straight, conical, sepals 1 in. long, follicles 
3-7, 
large, perennial, smooth or velvety, stem hollow, 
much branched ; leaves 6-10 in. diam., deeply divided, 
circular, segments 5-9, lobed and sharply toothed, lower 
long-stalked, upper nearly sessile ; flowers 1 in. long, pale 
yellow, or dull purple in long, branched, terminal racemes, 
felted, bracts minute, sepals 5, petal-like, ununited, upper 
one helmet-shaped, with a short beak and a long dorsal 
cylindrical or conical prominence, the others flat, the 2 
lateral broader than the 2 lower and much shorter than 
the helmet, petals 2 or 4, concealed within the sepals, 2 
upper in the helmet, long-stalked with a short concave 
spurred blade, 2 lower very small or absent, stamens 
many, flat, wide at the base, tapering upwards, styles 
short, straight ; follicles 8, spreading, seeds many, coat 
folded, 
see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
medium size, branched or not, leaves 2-4 in. diam., 
ovate or circular-heart-shaped, more or less 5-lobed or 
toothed, teeth blunt or short-pointed, stalked, upper leaves 
stem-clasping, sharply toothed, sessile, flowers 1 in. long, 
dull green-blue with purple veins, in many-flowered branch- 
ed racemes, bracts sharply toothed, helmet-pointed in 
front, top rounded, lateral sepals as long as the helmet, 
follicles 5, downy, seed coat smooth ; for other characters 
see the last species. The root of this plant supplies a 
valuable febrifuge, atts, 
