150 ACONITUM. 
erect in the mature state, more or less adpressed to the rhachis. бераз pale or 
purplish blue, or white, or variegated with saturated veins, more or less pubescent. 
overlapping at the base only in the fully open flower; uppermost navieular, more 
or less beaked, obliquely erect, 12—20 mm. high, 15—95 mm. long (from the beak 
to the base) 4—7 mm. broad, obscurely clawed; lateral sepals oblique, broadly obovate 
or suborbicular, about 15 mm. long, 10—13 mm. broad; not or obscurely clawed, 
lower sepals deflexed, elliptic-oblong or elliptic, obtuse, about 8 mm. long. Neetaries 
glabrous, extinguisher-shaped; claw very slender, 12—15 mm. long, leaning forward in 
the upper part; hood horizontal, or more or less deflexed, saccate, very obtuse, top 
often widened and gibbous in front, lip 2lobed, lobes often narrow and rather long. 
Filaments glabrous, very rarely with a few minute hairs, winged to the middle, 
wings gradually attenuate or running out into minute teeth. Carpels usually 5 ( rarely 
4 or 6), contiguous, oblong, abruptly contracted into the style, softly villous. Follicles 
contiguous or almost so, oblong, truncate at the top, 9—13 mm. long, softly hairy. 
Seeds brown, obpyramidal, 3-angled, obliquely truncate at the top, 2'5—8 mm. long, 
angles unequally winged, wings hollow, faces smooth. 
DISTRIBUTION, Alpine zone of Turkestan, the North-Western Himalaya, and the Safed 
Kuh on the Indo-Afghan frontier. 
‘Turkestan: Gov. Semirechinsk, Alatau, Schrenk! Semenow!; at the sources of the 
Sarchan River, Karelin and Kirilof 1170! (Hb. Kew); Alaman Range, Almaty Pass 
in the Trans-Ili Alatau, Sem«now ; Thianshan, Turgen Pass, Semenow ; in the neighbourhood 
of the Chatir Kul and the Arpa Valley, Osten Sacken! (Hb, Kew); Gov. Sir Daria, 
Alexandrovski Mountains, Karakia Pass, А. Regel! (Hb. Kew); Samarkand, Sarafschan, 
0,  Fedíschenko.—WMiMALAYA. NORTHERN PUNJAB: Hazara, Kagan, 12,500 ft., Stewart! 
— Снітвлт: Dorah Pass, 13,000 ft., in moist soil, Giles А, 209! (Hb. Kew); Pang-i-Sir, 
10,000—12,000 ft., Giles 590! (Hb. Kew).—Gmerr: “Damot,” 13,000 ft. Tanner 208B ! 
(Hb. Sah.); Gakuch, 12,000—13,000 ft, Tanner 208 A. (Hb. Sah.); Sai, 13,000 ft., 
Tanner 208! (Hb. Sah.); Niltar Valley, 10,000— 11,000 ft, Duthie 19410! (Hb. 
Edinb., Sah. and Cale); Astor Valley above Doian, 11,000—12,000 ft, Duthie! (Hb. 
Edinb., Cale, and Sah.); Ruckum Pass above Purpoo, 14,009 %,, Winterbottom 959! (Hb. 
Kew and Calc.).—Batristan: Basha Valley and Nushik Pase, Neve! (Hb. Kew); 
Karakorum Range, Mango Brangsa, 12,700 ft., Conway 223! (Hb. Kew); at 14,000 ft., 
Clarke 30194! (Hb. Cale.), 30456! (Hb, Kew); Thale-la to Bagmaharal, Schlagintweit ! 
(Hb. Brit. Mus,); Deosai plains and Skora La, Falconer! (Hb. Kew); “ №агаіле Kotul,” 
Falconer ! (Hb. Sah.) ; to the north-west of Pensi-la, 12,000—17,000 ft ,  Stoliczka! 
(Hb, Kew and Са1е.).--Снамва: Sanch Pass, 14,000 ft., Ellis 1674! (НЬ. Calc.); Pangi, 
Parmaur Valley, 13,000—14,000 ft, Lace 1666! (Hb, Edinb., Calc. and Sah,).—Lanut: 
without precise locality, Hay (Hb. Cale.); at 13,000 ft., Brandis 3257 (Hb. Sah.); 
Kardong Mountains, 13,000—16,000 ft,, Jaeschke! (Hb, Kew and Cale,).—Spitt: Chikkim 
Station, 13,500—15,500 ft,, „Stoliczka! (Hb. Kew and Cale.).—North BasHaHR: Yurpo 
Valley, between Yurpo and Gantang Та, Jacquemoni 1755! (Hb. Kew); Mangzang- 
zangh, 14,000 ft, Lace 553! (Hb. Edinb., Sah. and Cale.); between Hookio Ghat 
and Dubling, 13,000 ft., Jaequemont 1894! (Hb. Kew).—Sarrp Кон; Kuram district: 
Shend-toi Valley, common in pastures, 10,000—11,000 ft. Ай йоп 1001! (Hb Kew, 
Cale, and Sah.) oe чы 
VERNACULAR NAME; Unknown, 
