NAPELLUS. : 147 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine zone of the Western Himalaya, from 10,000--18,000 ft. 
Спот: Astor (Hasora), Falconer Kew Distr. 71! partly, (Hb. Kew)— 
Barras: Karpuchu Valley, 11,000—12,000 ft. Duthie! (Hb. Sah.); Shingo Valley 
Goltari Nala, 11,000 ft., Duthie 11866! (Hb. Sah.); Chatpani Nala, near Dd 
18,000 ft., Duthie 13886! (Hb. Kew); Dras, 10,000—11,000 ft. Thomson! (Hb. Kon) 
—Kasmum: Zojila, 10,000—11,000 ft, Thomson! (Hb. Kew); Sind Valley, above 
Gombour, Jacquemont 986! (Hb. Kew); Liddar Valley, Kolahoi, Jnayat in Duthie's 
Distr. 25372! (Hb. Sah.); Zujmurgh, Falconer Kew Distr, 72! (Hb. Kew and Sah.) 
The fact that the differences by which I am able to distinguish this variety from the typical 
form of A. violaceum are almost entirely dimensional suggests that it is merely an exceptionally 
robust state, This is the more probable, as the areas of the type and the variety overlap and 
intermediate forms occur which might be sorted with either. As there is, however, no evidence of 
а similar variation to the east of Kashmir and the extreme forms of what I call var. robustum 
differ so much in habit from Jacquemont’s A. violaceum, I have considered it expedient for the time 
{о separate them as а distinot variety. 
Ртлте 97. Aconitum violaceum Jacquem.—1, а typical (glabrous) specimen; 9 s 
high level specimen; 3, a leaf of a state of var. robustum with much dissected foliage; 
4,a pair of tubers (large size) with the hypogseous portion of the stem; 5, an infruc- 
tescence of var. robustum—naiural size; 6, a flower in longitudinal section; 7, a песіагу; 
8, a filament; 9, а gynecium; 10, а carpel; 11 and 12, seeds; 13, a portion of а 
pedicel (tomentose state); 14, transverse section of daughter-tuber—ail enlarged. 
(1 and 6—10, from Kashmir, Barzil Pass, Duthie 14029; 2, from Spiti, Jacquemoni 
1962; 3, from Kashmir, Falconer, Kew Distr. 72; 4, from Kumaon, Kali Valley, Duthie 
24135; 5, from Baltistan, Chatpani Nala, Duthie 13886; 11—18, from Gilgit, Hazora, 
Falconer Kew Distr. 71; 14, from Chamba, Sanch Pass, Watt 1677.) 
7. Асомітом Ноокеві Stapf, sp. nov. 
[TYPE SPECIMENS: See below under ‘distribution.’ ) 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous; daughter-tuber conic-oblong or ellipsoid or sub- 
cylindric, 0:5--9:5 cm. long, 3—5 mm. thick, bearing few very fine root fibres, breaking off 
easily, bark very thin, whitish to brown, smooth, fracture pure white, farinaceous, taste 
quite indifferent, cambium continuous forming a very slender central strand; mother- 
tuber more or less shrunk, deeply grooved and wrinkled, blackish, brownish internally. 
Innovation-bud slender, conic, up to 5 mm. long. Stem erect or ascending from a very 
slender, short or long (up to 10 cm.), often flexuous hypogeous base, simple or 
branched, crispo-pubescent above, glabrescent below, epigeous part (including the 
flowers) 5—20 cm. high, Leaves very few and scattered on the hypogeous stem, the 
following 2—3 (rarely more) crowded at the base of the epigeous part of the 
stem, coétaneous with the flowers, like the rest somewhat fleshy, sparingly pubescent or 
glabrous, sometimes 1 or 2 higher up and much reduced, all except the uppermost on often 
long (up to 5 сш.) slender petioles widened at the base, frequently with a small 
tuft of minute petioled leaves (an arrested branchlet) in their axils; lower blades 
orbicular-cordate or reniform in outline, with a wide or narrow sinus (0:5—1'5 mm. 
Ann. Roy. Вот. Garp. CALC. Yor. X. 
