144 ACONITUM. 
Kew); Kagan Valley up to 12,200 ft, Inayat 19120! 19121! (Hb. Sah.) 23297! 
23298! (Hb. Kew and Sah.); without precise locality, Watts Coll. Reg. No. 10239! 
14757 ! (Hb. Cale. and Edinb.) 
VERNACULAR NAMES: Mohri (Jhelum Basin, Hazara), Stewart, /. с.; Watt, L с. Рап 
(Jhelum Basin), Stewart, Z. е.; Ban-bal-nag (Kashmir), Aitchison, on label. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: ‘The root contains, according to Prof. Dunstan (2. с.), aconitine, 
but in very small proportions. It seems that it is sometimes used in Northern India 
as a substitute for the imported tubers of the European Aconitum Napellus (Watt, 1. c.). 
A, chasmanthum differs from А. Napellus, Linn. in the smaller, shorter and comparatively thicker 
tubers; in the leaves, which are on the whole smaller, borne (the lower) on longer petioles and divided into 
narrower segments; in the long and very slender racemes; the slightly smaller, usually blue and whit, 
flowers; the rather depressed, widely gaping and rostrate helmet; in the conniving ovaries which are always 
5 ineaeh flower, and suddenly contracted into the style; in the position of the mature pedicels and 
fruits, which are tightly adpressed to the rhachis; and in the smaller lighter seeds, of which 650 go 
toa gramme, instead of 250 as in A. Napellus. Specimens of А. chasmanthum, which flowered at Kew 
this and last summer, by the side of plants of A. Napellus, showed the differences mentioned in a 
very marked way. 
An alpine form with very small tubers and scarcely 20 om. high is represented by a specimen 
collected by Inayat (23298 of Duthie’s Distr.) at а locality called Chippran, in the Kagan Valley, 
‚ Hazara. It resembles certain forms of A. violacewn, but may be recognised by the numerous cauline 
leaves and the glabrous carpels. 
Prate 96. Aconitum chasmanthum Séapf.—1, An inflorescence; 2, lower part of a 
specimen ; 3, portion of an infructescence—natural size; 4, a flower in longitudinal 
section; 5, a nectary ; 6, lip of а nectary, flattened out; 7, а stamen ; 8, a gyncecium ; 
9, seeds ; 10, transverse section of a seed; 11, a portion of a pedicel; 12, transverse 
section of a daughter-tuber —a// enlarged. 
(1 and 11, from Hazara, Kayan Valley, ayat, 23297-a; 9, 9, and 10, from 
Hazara, Waífs Coll, Reg. No. 14757; 3, from Hazara, Abbotabad, Monro; 4—8 and 12 
from Kashmir, Gulmarg, Aitchison 7.) 
6. AcoNITUM VIOLACEUM Jacquem. Mss. in Herb. Kew. 
A. multifidum Royle, Ill. Him. (1834), pp. 45, 56! (Hb. Cambridge) non Koch 
ex Reichb. 
“А. dissectum (Hamiltoni ог speciosum)" Madden іп Journ Ав 
xv. (1846), p. 95, поп D. Don. ; e 
A. Napellus Clegh. Rep. Forests Punjab and West Himal, p. 67; Stewart 
Punjab Pl., p. 2 (in part, according to Stewart's Specimens) * Gammie 
in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. i, No. 10, p. 192, non L. 5 
A, Napellus var, multifidum and var. rigidum (in part) Hook. fil. and Thoms 
Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 29; Atkins Gaz, N.-W. Prov., p. 412; Watt Dict. 
Кооп. Prod. India, i. p. 96; Duthie in Rec, Bot. Surv, Ind. i 
No. 3, p. 3i (in part); Lawrence Valley of Kashmir, p. 85 x 
A, Napellus var. dissectum Duthie in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. i, No. 3 д 97 
(TYPE SPECIMENS: Collected by J i iti | ihale ri 
eee y Jacquemont, in Spiti (1962!) and Bashahr (1765! ) 
