NAPELLUS 141 
Section II.—N APELLUS DC. (sensu latiore). 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous; each tuber producing normally one simple or 
(rarely) branched stem. 
4. ACONITUM SOONGARICUM Stapf, sp. nov. 
А. Napellus Kar. & Kir. in Bull. Soc. Nat, Mose, 1841, p. 375, and А. 
Napellus? Kar. and Kir. 1. c. xv. (1842), p. 139. 
А. Napellus forma З, Trautvetter іп Bull. бос. Nat. Mose. xxxiii. (1860) ii. 
p. 86. 
A. Napellus В. alpinum lus, soongaricum Regel in Pl, Radd. i. (1861), p 105. 
А. Napellus 8. racemosum forma lobelianum Regel & Herder in Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mose. xxxvii. (1864), i. p. 404, 
[TYPE SPECIMENS: See under ‘ distribution.’ | | 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous; daughter-tuber conie, slender, 2--9:5 em. long, 0'7 cm. 
thick, with very few root-fibres, brown externally, fracture horny, brown, taste faintly 
sweelish bitter, followed by a very slight tingling sensation, cambium continuous, forming 
a scarcely sinuous ring in cross-section; mother-tuber similar, more or less shrunk. Jnnova- 
tion-bud conic, about 5 mm. long; scales scarious, soon decaying after sprouting. Siem 
erect, simple, moderately robust, quite glabrous, rarely slightly pubescent in the upper 
part, up to 7 dm. high. Leaves scattered, lowest usually decayed at the time of flowering, 
intermediate remote, upper more approximate, glabrous; petioles more or less widened at 
the base, lower up to 12 cm, long, upper 1—2 em. long; blades more or less cordate- 
orbicular or reniform in outline with a wide or narrow sinus, 2—3 cm. deep; 5--9 еш. 
from the sinus to the tip, 8 — 12 em. across, 5-partite to the very base or in the outer incisions 
almost to the base, inner 3 divisions similar rhomboid in outline from a narrow cuneate base, 
>-5—3°5, em. wide, 3-lobed to or beyond the middle or pinnati-laciniate, lobes or laciniae 
broad-linear, subobtuse to shortly acute 1:5—3 em. long, 3—5 mm. broad, entire or the 
larger with 1—9 coarse teeth or linear lobules, outer divisions 2-fid beyond the middle, 
inner segment 2—3-lobed, outer often entire, linear. Inflorescence ап егесі, dense or 
somewhat loose, terminal raceme 6—18 em. long or with additional branches from the 
upper leaves, glabrous or sparingly and softly pubescent; lower bracts foliaceons, 3-partite 
with mostly entire long linear segments, considerably exceedirg the pedicels, intermediate 
linear, entire, up to 2—5 em, long, upper filiform, short; pedicels slender erect or often 
adpressed to the rhachis, lower 1:5—2:5 cm. long; bracteoles linear, above the middle 
of the pedicel, sometimes close to the flower. Sepals blue, pubescent, ciliate; uppermost 
helmet-shaped, helmet clawed, equally. curved on the back and in front (seen in 
profile), descending into a long and slender beak, lateral margin. deeply concave, 
16—18 mm. high, 12—15 mm. from the tip to the base, 5—6 таш, wide at the 
top; lateral sepals oblique, obovate-orbicular, shortly clawed, 13—17 mm. long, not 
contiguous with the helmet; lower deflexed or sub-horizontal, elliptic to oblong, obtuse 
or subobtuse, 10—15 mm. long. Nectaries glabrous; claw erect, slender, up to 12 mm. 
Ann Roy. Вот. Garp. Carc, Vor. X. 
