136 ACONITUM. 
Section I—LYCOCTONUM DC. 
Roor perennial, long, fusiform, usually breaking up at length into cord-like 
anastomosing or free strands; old plants often with several stems from the. collar. 
1, Aconitum LAEVE Royle, Ill. Himal, (1834), pp. 45, 56. poo 
А. Lycoctonum Hook. fil. & Thoms, Fl. Ind. i, p. 55; Hook. fil, Fl.. Brit. 
Ind, i. p. 28; Atkins. Gaz, N.-W. Prov. (1882) p. 412; Watt Dict. 
Econ. Prod. India, i, p. 94, and in Agric. Ledger, 1902, No. 3, p. 89; 
Duthie in Rae. Bot. Sarv. India, i, No. 3 (1894), p. 37, and No. 9 
(1898, p. 143, Lawrence Valley of Kashmir, p. 85; not of Linnaeus, 
А. vitifolium Royle Ms. (in Hb. Cambridge). 
[ТҮРЕ SPECIMENS: А specimen at Kew, stated to be from Royle's herbarium, and 
marked (but not in Royle's writing! ) “ Aconitum Lycoctonum, A: (sic) laeve Royle, 
N.-W. India!" and another in the Saharanpur herbarium, collected by Royle (?) in 
1825 on Mt. Choor, and named ‘ Aconitum palmatum might pass as type specimens, 
Localities quoted by Royle, 1, €, “Choor (), Kunawur (D, Pir Panjal (5-7] 
Root perennial elongate, more or less cylindric, ultimately breaking up into 
separate or anastomosing strands, Stem erect, simple or branched, up to 6 ft, high 
with all the internodes’ elongate, hairy and slightly viscous in the upper, glabrous 
in the lower part, hairs short, Spreading or curved and adpressed. Leaves few from 
the collar on vary loag (ap to 3) cm.) petioles, usually withered at the time of 
flowering; 5 ог? more from the stem, distant, similar to the basal, but the upper 
gradually smaller, less divid:d anl more hairy, passing into the floral leaves, with 
rapidly decreasing petioles; basal and lower blades glabrous, orbicular-cordate or 
reniform in outline with a deep (up to 10 cm.) narrow or wide sinus, up to 15 cm. 
high (from the sinus to the tip), upto 30 сш. across, 5—9-subpedati-partite io 3 in 
the inner and to $ in the outer incisions, inner divisions obovate to obovate-oblong 
Írom a broad cuneate base, 3:5—7 em. wide, 3-lobel, outer divisions trapezoid, 2-lobed, 
lobes acutely inciso-deatate, Inflorescence panicled, often over 50 em, long, usually leafy 
more or less hairy, hairs as on the stem but denser; floral leaves браню splitting. 
ly inciso-dentate; bracts lanceolate to linear-lanceolata or filiform, entire or the lowest 
dentate, usually exceeding the pedicels; bracteoles, if present, linear or filiform: 
pedicels erect or obliquely erect, the lower when mature often curved upwards and dy 
to 96 em. long, Sepals yellowish or white and tinged with purple or blue or wholly 
рагрИеһ, more or less pubescent or minutely hirsute, rarely almost glabrous; upper 
sepal helmet-shaped, linear-oblong or oblong, 12—16 mm. high, 3--5 mm, Wide in the 
upper part, straight or sometimes slightly recurved at the top, usually abruptly widened 
in front towards tho base into an obtuse or subacute beak, lateral margins slight] 
curved : lateral sepals rotundate-obovate, oblique, not clawed, 9—11 mm, ы maka 67 
ae н ызыны oblong Е elliptic-oblong, subobtuse, 7—10 mm, long. Nectaries 
; › mm. long; hood oblique, slender, conic, up to 5 mm, long 
