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the same (if not denser) indumentum as the stem, lowest bracts 3-partite, the others 
lanceolate or the uppermost sublinear, exceeding the pedicels; pedicels erect, short to 
very short, except the very lowest which may be 2°5—3'5 еш, long; bracteoles, if 
present, small linear. Sepals lurid, reddish or brownish-red to purple without, yellowish 
within, hairy, upper sepal helmet-shaped, broad, hemi-elliptic in profile in the upper part, 
5—7 mm. high, gradually descending into an obtuse beak of equal or more than equal 
length; lateral sepals somewhat obliquely obovate, scarcely clawed, 9—11 mm, long, 
7—-7'5 mm. broad; lower sepals detlexed, oblong, obtuse, 8—9 mm, long. Nectaries 
hammer-shaped, glabrous, claw erect, 4—5 mm. long; hood ata right angle to the claw, 
obliquely oblong, very obtuse; lip horizontal or slightly deflexed, shortly 2-lobed. 
filaments 6—-9 mm. long, glabrous, broadly winged up to or beyond the middle, wings 
abruptly contracted. Carpels 3, contiguous and very oblique to horizontal in the flower, 
obliquely oblong, densely hairy, rarely almost glabrous, shortly contracted into the some- 
what shorter styles. Follicles erect, contiguous, oblong, subtruncate, 10—12 mm. long, 
glabrescent. Seeds triquetrous, oblong, up to 3 mm. long, blackish-brown ; angles 
unequally winged, dorsal face transversely wrinkled, ventral faces smooth. 
DISTRIBUTION : Himalaya from Eastern Nepal to Chumbi, 12,000—14,000 ft. 
NzPaL: Neer Pokri, 13,000 ft., Pantling! (Hb. Calc.)—Sixxim: Jongli Pokri, 13,000 
it, Pantling! (Hb. Cale); between Jongri and Alukhtang, 13,000—15,000 ft, 
Gumba-than, King’s Coll. 11,981! (Hb. Calc.); Anderson! (Hb, Cale.); Singalela Range, 
12,000 %,, С. 6. Rogers Reg. No. 14616 (Hb. Kew and Edinb.); Sandakphu, 12,000 ft., 
Rogers! (Hb. Calc.), King’s Coll! (Hb. Calc.); Phullut, King’s Col! (Hb. Caic.), 
To-koo-la, King’s Coll. (Hb. Calc.); Ze-lep-la, King! (Hb. Cale.); Tang-ka-la, N. of Ze- 
lep-la, King’s Ccll.! (Hb. Calc.); Cho-la, J. D. Hooker! (Hb. Kew); 14,000 ít, Gammie! 
(Hb. Cale.); Tankra, 14,000 ft., J. D. Hooker! (Hb. Kew); 12,500 ft, (атт! 
(Hb. Са1с.)--Сномві, Ta-key-kung, King’s Coil! (Hb. Cale.) 
VERNACULAR NAMES: Tchendook (Bhot.) J. D. Hooker, on the label; Soorja Banshi 
(Darjeeling), Rogers, on the label; Suya-lanshi, Watt in Agric. Ledg. |, c. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Sir J. D. Hooker states in his Himalayan Journals, 4. c., that 
the root of A. luridum “is said to be as virulent as A. feroz and А. Napellus.” Nothing 
more is known about it. 
PLATE 93. Aconitum luridum Hook. f. & Thoms.—1, А flowering specimen; 2, а cauline 
leaf, larger size and more cut up than usual; 3, an infructescence—natural size; 4, a flower 
in longitudinal section; 5, stamens; 0, a seed, ventral face; 7, the same, dorsal view; 8, 
the same in cross-section; 9, a portion of the axis of the inflorescence; 10, transverse 
section of а root: а, decayed tissue 0, strands into which the root breaks up ultimately— 
all enlarged. 
(1 and 9, from Sandakphu, Rogers; 2, from Tankra, Gammie; 3, from Cho-la, Game; 
4 and 5, from Tankra, J. D. Hooker; 6—8, from Cho-la, J. D. Hooker; 10, from Singalela, 
Rogers 14616.) 
3. Aconitum MOSCHATUM Stapf, sp. nov. 
А. feroz var. moschatum Brühl ex Duthie in Rec. Bot. Surv. India, i. No. 3 
(1894), p. 27; Brühl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Caleutta v., ii p. 109, 
plate 111, figs. A, and 20, 26 (as subspecies); Watt in Agric. 
Ledger, 1902, Хо. 3, p. 93. 
Анх, Ror. Вот. Garp. Carc, Vor. X. 
