Delphinium.] flora INDIca. 49 



Distrib. Persia. 



ifczi&r lignosa, descendens. Caul is erectus, 1-H-pcdalis, fere nudus, tomento brevi 

 glanduloso denso tectus, rarius glaber. Folia utriuque sparse pilosa, circumscriptioue 

 reuiformia. Bractece et braeteohe minutre, liueares. Sepal a pallide purpurascentia, 

 anguste obovata, -|-pollicaria, extus pilosula, posticum calcare brcviore vel subsequi- 

 longo apice iuilato gibboso munitum. Fetala postica -§ poll, longa, antice obtuse 

 angulata, lamiaa tenui obtuse biloba, calcare incur vo obtuso apice ampliato ; antica 

 ^-pollicaria, lamina alte biloba, utrinque dense et longe pilosa. Ovaria 3, pilosa, ra- 

 rius glabra. 



The shape of the leaves, and of the anterior petals, which are very large and co- 

 vered with long shaggy hairs, in combination with the very short pedicels, seem to 

 be the best characters of this species. The pubescence is entirely wanting in Major 

 Vicary's specimens, w r hich are rather imperfect, with scarcely any leaves, but identical 

 in flowers with those from other localities. The spur is singularly variable, being 

 sometimes only slightly incurved, at other times doubled up, so that the apex almost 

 touches the base of the sepals. 



3. D. saniculasfolium (Boissier ! Diagn. Or. vi. 6); caule pauci- 

 foliato ramoso, foliis tripartitis segmentis cuneato-ovatis trilobis, ra- 

 cemis clongatis strictis, pedicellis flores parvos vix superantibus, calcare 

 recto sepala sequante. 



Hab. Afghanistan, Griffith, No. 1373 ! Panjab, in montosis prope 

 Indum flurnen, Fleming! — (v. s.) 



Distrib. Persia ! 



Radix lignosa, elongata, descendens. Caulis erectus, glaber vel adpresse puberulus, 

 parce ramosus, ramis rigidis vimineis divaricatis. Folia coriacca, adpresse cinereo- 

 puberula vel tomentosa, circumscriptione rotundata, I ^-3 -poll., lobis incisis ; cauli?ia 

 triseeta. Eacemi multiflori, pedicellis flores sequantibus vel paullo Iongioribus. 

 Bract ea et bracteolae 1-2 line-as longse, lineares. Flores pallide cserulescentes. Se- 

 pala vix i poll, longa, extus puberula, oblonga, calcare recto sequilongo. Fetala pos- 

 teriora antice obliqna, obtuse augulata, apice bidentata, calcare subulato recto ; an- 

 tica biloba, pilosa, Folliculi 3, glabri vel puberuli, inflati (in Indicis speciminibu- 



non visi). 



It is quite possible that this may be only a form of the next, from which it chiefly 

 differs in the size of the flowers, and somewhat also in aspect. Several more of 

 Boissier's species may in all probability be referred to this or to the preceding, but 

 the specimens before us are too imperfect to enable us to state decidedly to which 

 they belong ; nor are the diagnoses, which rest on very trivial characters, sufficient to 

 settle the matter. 



4. D. denudatom (Wall. Cat. 4719 !) ; Caule paucifoliato ramoso, 

 foliis palmatim 5-7-partitis segmentis inciso-lobatis, racemis divaricato- 

 ramosis laxis, floribus magnis longe pedicellatis, calcare recto sepala 

 aequante. — D. pauciflorum, Royle! III. 55 (vix Don, Prod.). 



Hab. In Himalaya occidentali temperata in graminosis calidis : a 

 Kashmir ad Baramula, TFint.! usque ad Kumaon! — (Fl. Apr. Jan.) 

 (v. v.) 



Caulis erectus, glaber vel npicem versus puberulus. Folia radicalia longe petio- 

 lata, 2-6-pollicaria, 5-7-partita, segmentis ovalibns basi angustatis cuneatis inciso- 

 bipinuatifidis, lobis oblongis vel lineari - oblongis ; caulina 3-5-secta, superiora ses- 

 silia, segmentis lineari-pinnatifidis linearibusve. Fedicelli lineari-bracteolati. Flore* 

 ultra pollicares, pallide cierulei. Sepala f-pollicaria, cum calcare oequilongo extus sub- 

 ilavida. Fetala postica obtuse calcarata, antice obliqna, obtuse angulata, apicein ver- 



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