502 
Plants of the Punjab, 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE EXsTIPULATE SIMPLE LEAVES, 
Luzula spicata, 
JUNCACER. 
Ba, va. 401, 
Himalaya, 
12-14,500 ft, 
Kashmir, 
PETALS NONE. 
like the last species, but smaller, 2-10 in. high, flowers 
larger in a solitary oblong drooping bracteate head. 
Herss, UNBRANCHED, WITH ALTERNATE ExstrpuLATE LoBEp LEAVES, 
Ranunculus 
faleatus, 
Ranunculus 
muricatus, 
Delphinium 
uncinatum, 
Delphinium 
incanum, 
Delphinium 
vestitum, 
Delphinium 
eashmirianum, 
Aconitum Napellus, 
Monk’s hood, 
Bikh or Bish. 
RANUCULACES. 
Ho. 28. 
Himalaya, 
10-18,000 ft. 
east of the Sutlej, 
Aconitum 
heterophyllum, 
PETALS UNUNITED, 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
small to large, perennial, smooth or slightly velvety ; 
leaves deeply palmately divided, segments linear, much 
divided ; flowers 3-1 in. long, bright or dull greenish-blue, 
in simple or compound few-or many-flowered racemes, 
bracts entire or divided into three, sepals 5, petal-like, 
posterior (helmet) three times as long as high, shallow, 
tapering to a slender beak, the rest flat, 2 anterior nar- 
rower than the lateral, petals 2-5, 2 posterior stalked, 
hooded, enclosed in the helmet, 3 lower small or none, 
stamens many ; follicles 8-5, sessile, hairy, seeds many, 
smooth. The root contains a deadly poison, it is used 
in medicine. 
see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 
