140 ACONITUM. 
[ Type SPECIMENS: See under ‘distribution.’ | 
Root perennial, descending, elongate, cylindric, ultimately breaking up into separate ог 
 anastomosing strands. Stem erect, from a simple or in old specimens several-headed coilar 
which is covered with the brown, dilated bases of the old petioles, unbranched, up to 90 cm. 
high, glabrous below, more or less hairy above, hairs soft, spreading. Leaves few (up to g: 
from the collar, оп very long (ар to 90 cm.) petioles, which are dilated at the base; 1—3 
from the stem, very similar to the basal except for the much shorter petioles; blades some- 
wiat thick, hairy on both sides or glabrate above, orbieular-cordate or subreniform in 
outline, with a usually rather wide sinus (2 —3 em. deep) up to 5 em. high (from the sinus 
to the tip) up to 9 em. across, 5-palmati- or subpedati-partite to $ in the inner and to 3 in 
the outermost incisions, inner divisions broadly obovate from a cuneate base, 3-lobed, 
outermost rounded-trapezoidal unequally 2—4-lobed, lobes sparingly and coarsely inciso- 
crenate, crenae obtuse, apiculate. Inflorescence racemose, rarely with an additional branch 
from the base, пр to 40 em. long, very narrow, lax, with the same (but much denser) and 
more or less viscid indumentum as the stem; lowest bracts 3-partite, divisions sparingly 
inciso-dentate, or laciniate or entire; upper bracts lanceolate, entire, as long as or longer 
than the pedicels, bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, close to the flower ; pedicels erect, lowest 
up to 2:5 cm. long, upper ones rapidly decreasing. Sepals lurid purple with long soft hairs; 
upper sepal nayicular, searcely beaked, 14—16 mm. high, 17—18 mm. from tip to base, 
7 mm. wide at the middle (seen from the side), lateral margin very slightly curved; lateral 
sepals subobliquely obovate, very obtuse, obscurely clawed, 17—14 mm. long, up to 8 mm. 
broad; lower sepals deflexed, obovate-elliptic, subobtuse, 9—10 mm. long, up to 6 mm. broad. 
Nectaries glabrous ; claws erect, 8--9 mm, long ; hood in the continuation of the claw, shortly 
semi-elliptie, very obtuse, lip reflexed, short, entire or subemarginate. Filaments glabrous, 
8 mm, long, winged to the middle, wings gradually attenuated. ^ Carpels 3, contiguous, 
obliquely lanceolate-oblong passing into the slightly shorter style, loosely hairy. Foilicles 
(not quite mature) oblong, contiguous except at the tips, obliquely truncate, 15 mm. long. 
Seeds obpyramidal, about 2—3 mm. long, with crisp hyaline transverse lamellae. 
DISTRIBUTION: Eastern Kashmir, between 12,000 and 14,000 fi. 
Kasur: Liddar Valley, Sausal Nala, 13,000 —14,000 feet, on rocks, Duthie 14120! 
(Hb. Kew and Sah.); Musjid Valley, 12 000--13,000 feet on rocks, Duthie 13191! 
(Hb. Sah.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
A. moschatum is a very distinct species. The structure and duration of the root are exectly as in the 
other species of the section Lycoctonum to which I refer it without hesitation, notwithstanding the shape 
of the helmet which is very unusual for this section. | 
Ртлте 94. Aconitum moschatum Sfapf.—1, Ап inflorescence; 2, lower part of a plant ; 
З, а collar and root; 4, an infructescence—natural 8122; 9, а portion of the axis of an 
inflorescence; 6, a flower, in longitudinal section; 7, a nectary; 8, a stamen; 9, a 
gynecium; 10, a'seed—a// enlarged. 
(1 from Kashmir, Musjid Valley, Duthie 18191; 2—10, from Kashmir, Liddar Valley, ' 
Duihie 14120.) ' 
