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IL—DESCRIPTIONS OF THE ACONITES. OF INDIA. 
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ACONITUM try. 
CoxsPECTUS, 
x SECTION I..—LYCOCTONUM.—Root perennial, long, fusiform, usually breaking up at length into cord. 
like anastomosing or free strands; old plants often with several stems from the collar. 
‘Upper sepal distinctly helmet-shaped, produced into a long deflexed 
or subhorizontal beak :— 
Helmet high, linear-oblong or oblong in profile; nectaries 
extinguisher-shaped, hood oblique, much shorter than the claw . 1. A, laeve. 
Helmet depressed, broad, hemi-elliptic in profile;  nectaries 
hammer-shaped, hood as long as the claw . . . . 2 9. A. luridum. 
Upper sepal navicular, obliquely erect; mectaries erisque hepo, | 
hood erect, short, broad S X v uus MES ЖЖ” 447% 3. А. rhoschatnm. 
SECTION II.—N APELLUS.—ARooís s онн paired, tuberous ; each tuber Phi) thes one simple 
or (rarely) branched stem. 
Stem erect, rarely ascending, never twining :— 
Seed-angles winged, faces smooth or almost smooth ad 
transversely lamellate) a ' — 
All the leaves distinctly 'tó very long petioled, cordate-orbicular 
or reniform in outline, deeply dissected :— 
Cambium of tubers continuous, forming in cross-section а more 
or less sinuous ring; ier uem x noctaries on the back 
of the hood :— Бы 
Tubers 2—3:5 ош. long, fracture n the dry state) horny 
or cartilaginous, browh (at ‘least the part outside the 
cambium); taste slightly * bitter; ‘followed by a tingling 
sensation; carpels glabrous or nearly so, never tomentose :— 
Carpels 3, diverging after сөнер ез 20474-18; PE Oopa, 
Carpels 5, conniving i . Б. A. chasmanthun. 
Tubers 05-25 еп. T зінше (а. the iy state) 
almost farinaceous, pure white; taste indifferent or slightly 
sweetish, not followed by any pror sensation; carpels 
densely tomentose :— 
Stem erect or shortly ascending, without a creeping 
hypogaeous part ; еке егесі, а 
subterminal . . 2224. 
Stem ascending іі: а vty маде ohai creeping 
hypogaeous part; nectary-hodd strongly curved and 
leaning forward, honey-gland basal . . . Cv Vo A. Hookeri, 
Cambium of tubers discontinuous, forming usually 4 isolated 
strands;  nectary-hood leaning forwards, honey-gland 
anticous . ` 
All the leaves with the indies of the un shécily рее 
to subsessile, cordate-ovate, coarsely crenate . . . . . 9, A. heterophyllum, 
Seeds with hyaline wavy transverse lamellae :— 
Sepals persistent round the mature follicles; stature dwarf. . . 10. A, naviewlare... 
6, A. eiolaceum. 
8. 4. rotundifolium, 
Axx. Вох, Вот. Gam», Caro, Vor. X. 
