149 ACONITUM. 
long, hood erect, 5 mm. long, top gibbous at the back, lip oblong-obovate, crenulate, as 
long as the hood. Filaments glabrous or sparingly hairy in the upper part, 7—8 mm. 
long, winged below, wings gradually or abruptly contracted. Carpels 3, lanceolate-oblong, 
gradually passing into the style, somewhat diverging, glabrous or almost so. Mature follicles 
and seeds unknown; young follicles distinctly diverging, inserted on the enlarging torus. 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine region of the mountain ranges of Gilgit and Turkestan. 
Girarr: Ghizur Valley, 10,000—11,000 ft., Giles A. 77! (Hb. Саје.)— Товкевтах: 
Ттапв-Пі Alatau, N. of Issik-kul, Almaty Pass, Semenow! (Hb. Kew); Dschabyk, - 
Schrenk, and without precise locality, Schrenk! (Hb. Kew); Alatau (Soongarian Alatau), 
at the sources of the Sarkhan River, Karelin & Kirilof 1178! (Hb. Kew)! 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
Of all the Indian species of Aconitum which I have seen, this comes nearest to the A. 
Napellus of Europe; and if that species is taken in a broad sense, A. soongaricum might perhaps 
included in it as a variety, the principal differences being in the small size and shape of the 
tubers and the peculiar long-beaked helmet. The long, linear, usually entire laciniae of the leaves 
also are unusual іп A, Napellus; still they occur occasionally. The fruits and seeds may possibly, 
when known, add other distinctive characters, Col. Tanner collected in 1880, in Gilgit, a specimen, 
now in the Saharanpur Herbarium, which represents most probably a luxuriant state of А, soon- 
garicum. It consists only of a paniculate inflorescenca with two leaves from the axils of which the 
lowest branches spring. These leaves are rather large, the intermediate division being 9 cm. long. 
The lowest pedicel of the terminal raceme is almost 9 cm. long, and like the others very slender; 
the flowers are distinctly larger than in Giles’ plant, and the gaping of the upper sepals is parti- 
cularly conspisuous. The whole inflorescence is sparingly and softly hairy, exactly like Schrenk’s 
specimen. | 
Prate 95. Aconitum soongaricum S/apf.—1, А flowering specimen (cut at x) 
with mother-tuber; 2, a pair of tubers (d, the daughter-tuber); 3, а flower—all 
natural size; 4, a flower in longitudinal section; 5 & 6, nectaries; 7, а stamen; 
8, a pistil; 9, a cross-section through a daughter-tuber (s, spongy tissue of the 
bark)—all enlarged. 
(Figures 1, 6 & 8 from Gilgit, Giles; 9, from the Almaty Pass, Semenow; 3 & 
6, from Gilgit, Tanner; 4 & 5, from the Alatau range, Karelin and Kirilof..) 
9. ACONITUM CHASMANTHUM Stapf ex Holmes, Mus. Report Pharm. Soc. Great Brit. 
1903, p. 2. 
А. Napellus var. spicatum Duthie in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. i. No. 3, p. 37 
in part, | U ; 
А. Napellus Stewart, Punjab Р], P. 2 in part; Dunstan in Agric. Ledger, 
1897, No. 19, p. 5, not of Linnaeus. | x 
A, Napellus var, Duthie іп Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. i. No, 9 (1838), p. 143, partly. 
4. Napellus var. hians Goris in Bull. Sc. Pharmac. üi. (1901), p. 112. fig. 98. 
A. hians Watt in Agric. Ledger, 1902, No. 3, p. 101, not of Reichenb, 
А. dissectum Watt 1. c., p. 100, іп part, not of D. Don. 
[TYPE SPECIMENS: See under ‘ distribution.” | 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous ; daughter-tuber conic to conie-cylindrie from a 
broad base, 2°5—3-7 (rarely to 5) em, 12—18 mm. thick, bearing more ог less 
numerous root-fibres leaving behind the indurated bases when breaking off, bark 
