148 ACONITUM. 
deep) 075--95 cm. high from the sinus to the top, 1:5--5 cm. across, 3—-5-palmati-, or 
subpedati-partite almost to the base in the iuner incisions, divisions obovate-cuneate 
(the middle one 0:1—1:75 em. broad), 3- or (the outermost) 2-lobed to or beyond the 
fiddle, lobes entire or sparingly inciso-crenate, subacute, rarely obtuse; upper cauline 
leaves, if present, similar to the preceding, but smaller to very small, shortly petioled 
or almost sessile, more sparingly divided with narrower segments, Inflorescence a short, 
lax, few-flowered raceme or corymb or reduced to a solitary flower, crispo-pubescent ; 
rhachis slender or sometimes thick and short ; bracts like the uppermost leaves or still- 
more reduced ; bracteoles, if present, linear, entire, rarely 1—2-crenate, at or below the 
middle of the pedicel ; pedicels slender or ultimately thickened, in the mature state 
up to 75 еш. long. Sepals deciduous, blue ог deep purple, sparingly hairy, upper- 
most usually helmet-shaped, rarely navicular, helmet obliquely erect, somewhat depressed, 
more or less rostrate, 12—94 mm. high, 15—25 mm. long from the tip to the base 
5—10 mm, wide (seen from the sile) about the middle; lateral sepals contiguous 
with the helmet, oblique, orbicular-obovate, scarcely clawed, 12—18 mm. long, 12—16 mm. 
broad ; lower sopals elliptic oblong, obtuso, 10—15 mm. long. Weetaries glabrous ; claw 
erect, nearly straight, 14—22 mm. long ; hood subhorizontal or deflexed, short, gibbous 
on the back at the base, wide and strongly convex in front, lip obovate, 2-lobed, 
deflexed or recurved ; honey-glind in the posticous gibbosity. Filaments glabrous or 
hairy above the middle, winged below, wings gradually or abruptly attenuated above. 
Carpels 5, densely villous, contiguous, oblong, abruptly contracted into the style. 
Follicl:s oblong, truncate, erect, contiguous or nearly so, 8 mm, long, densely hairy, Seeds 
3-sided, obpyramidal to almost ellipsoid, scarcely 2 mm. long, angles narrowly winged, wings 
hollow, faces smooth. 
DisTRIBUTION: Sikkim- Himalaya and adjoining Tibet, from 10,000 —1 6,000 ft. 
Зіккім: Pey-kiong-la, W. of Jongri, Pantling! (Hb. Cale.); between Jongri and 
Aloktong, 13,000—.15,000 ік, Anderson 346! (Hb. Cale); Mon Lepcha, 10,000— 
13,000 ft, Anderson 316 bis! (Hb. Cale.); Momay-Samdung, above 15,800—16,000 ft., 
Hooker! (Hb. Kew); (атте 845! (Hb, Cale); Donkia.la, Kings Coll! (Hb. Cale.) 
Gammie 824 ! (Hb. Cale,); Mapoku, 12,000 ft., King’s Coll, (Hb. Cale.) ; Sanku (Тапка P) 
14,000 ft., Pantling! (Hb. Cale); without precise locality, Elwes! (Hb. Kew); Blandford 
in Olarke's Distr. 13204! (Hb. Kew); Prab!s Col. 408! (Hb. Cale,); Garareng 
pasture, Prain's Coll. 106! (Hb. Calo.); Giagong, Pratn’s Coll | (Hb. Calc.); N iapokri, 
12,000 ft., Gammie! (Hb. Cale.).--Soura Ter: without precise locality, King's Coll, ! 
(Hb, Cale.); Chumbi, Kung-met, King’s Coll. 307! (Hb. Cale.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
This species has а strong tendency to branch. The branohes may grow out at once 
arrested, producing a few minute, often long-stalked leaves forming small sessilo tufts in the leaf axils, 
These arrested branches aot probably as reserve shoots, and where the | 
neous part of the stem, they may develop adventitious roots very much like slender tubers. 
The 4. Napellus mentioned by Gammie as observed by him on Donkiah Pass up to 17 
described as “reduced to a small plant with two or three leaves 
flower,” is no doubt this plant (Кес. Bot. Surv. Ind. n N63» рг 15. 
P/.—1, А specimen with а stoloniferous base; 2, 
з specimen without stolons and less dissected leaves; 3, an infructescence—natural size ; 
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