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4, а flower in longitudinal section; 5, а nectary; 6, stamens; 7, а gyncecium; 8, a carpel. 
9, seed, front view; 10, seed, back view; 11, а cross-section of a seed; 12, a portion of 
a pedicel; 13, transverse section of a daughter-root-- all enlarged. ; 
(1 and 4—8, from Sikkim, Momay, J. D. Hooker; 2, 3, and 9—18, from Sikkim, 
Mapoku King’s collector.) 
8. Асомітом RoTUNDIFOLIUM Kar, & Kir, in Bull. Soc, Imp. Nat. Mose, ху (1842), - 
139; Led. Fl. Ross, i. р. 740; Trautv., Pl. Schrenk. in Bull. Soc. 
Nat. Mosc, xxxiii, ii. (1860), p. 86; Regel in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ser. iv, 
xvi. (1862), p. 153 and in Pl. Radd. i. p. 115, tab. ІП, fig. w, 
and in Gartenflora xxx. (1881), p. 907, tab. 1063, fig. 9; Regel & 
Herder, Enum. Pl. Semenow, (in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. xxxvii, i, (1864), 
p. 404. { + 
A. rotundifolium var. elatior Regel іп Descr, РІ. Nov. Rar. Fedtschenko, p. 2. 
А. Napellus var, multifidum Duthie in Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind, i, No. 9, p. 97. 
A, thianschauicum Rupr. Seit. Thiansch. (1869) 38. 
А. oliganihemum A. Кет. in Ber. Naturwiss, Ver. Innsbruck, i. (1870), p. 119, 
А. Napellus var. rotundifolium Hook. fil. & Thoms. in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 
(1875), p. 29; Aitchison in Journ. Linn. Soe. xviii. (1881), p. 31; Watt 
Dict, Econ. Prod. Ind, i. p. 96; Duthie in Ree. Bot, Surv. Ind. dis 
No, 3 (1894), p. 37; Lawrence Valley of Kashmir, p. 85, 
[ТҮРЕ SPECIMENS: Collected near the Sarthan River in the Alatau (Gov. Semirechinsk, 
Turkestan), by Karelin and Kiriloff, 1841 (Hb. Kew)!] 
foots biennial, paired, tuberous; daughter-tuber short- or long-conie or subcylin- 
dric, 1—2°5 cm, long, 6—8 mm. thick, bearing long fine root-fibres breaking off easily, bark 
very thin, whitish to brown, smooth, fracture pure white, farinaceous, taste slightly bitter, 
almost indifferent; cambium disccntinuous, forming 4—5 isolated, very slender, cylindric 
strands arranged in a ring; mother-tuber more or less shrunk, wrinkled, dark brown 
to a'most black, brownish internally, Stem erect or ascending from a short (1—5 em.) 
hypogsous hase, simple, 15—40 cm. high, terete, slender, crispo-pubescent in. the upper 
part, glabrous below.  Zeaves mostly basal 4—5 (rarely 8), gathered in a loose rosette 
above the hypogsous part of the stem, coétaneous with the flowers, somewhat fleshy, 
glabrous or scantily pubescent, on long (4—13 cm.) petioles which aro dilated and more or 
less sheathing at the base; 1—2, rarely more, higher up on the stem on short or ‘very 
short petioles; lower blades orbicular-cordate or almost reniform іп outline, with a 
narrow sinus (0'7— 2 cm. deep), 1—3:5 em. high from the sinus to the top, 5-6: em. 
across, 5—7-palmati-partite to #—Z in the inner, to 3 or less in the outer incisions, 
divisiens broadly obovate cuneate, 3- or (the outermost) 2-lobed to or beyond the 
middle, lobes narrow, sparingly crenate ог inciso-crenate, crenae _bubobtuse, calloso- 
apiculate; cauline blades similar to the lower but smaller, less divided with narrower 
and longer lobes and more pabescent.- Inflorescence a short (up to — em.), few-flowered, 
usually loose raceme, or with a few slender, few-flowered additional branches from 
the uppermost often much reduced leaves, crispo-pubescent to tomentose ; lowest 
bracts 5—3-partite with very narrow divisions, or like the upper entire, linear, as 
long as or longer than the pedicels, uppermost much reduced or suppressed; brac- 
teoles, if present, minute; pedicels slender, lowest up to 2 cm. long, uppor much shorter, 
Ann, Roy. Вот. Garp. Олс. Vor. X. : : 
