159 ACONITUM. 
strands arranged in a ring; taste purely bitter; mother-tuber collapsed, deeply grooved and 
wrinkled, with conspicuous root-fibre scars. Jnnovation-bud of daughter-tuber сопіс, 3—8 
mm. long, Stem erect, simple or branched, from 15—90 cm. (rarely to almost 2 m.) 
high, terete, glabrous below, finely crispo-pubescent in the upper part, lowest 2—4 (sometimes 
more) internodes short, the following 2—10 elongated. Laves more or less heteromorphous, 
glabrous or the upper sparingly pubescent on the nerves below : lowest on long (up to 
13 em ) petioles, blade crbicular-cordate ог ovate-cordate in outline with a usualy narrow 
sinus (1--1:5 сш. deep), 2:5—3:5 em, high from the sinus to the tip, esl (rarely to 9) 
cm, across, usually 5-lobed to the middle, lobes crenate ог inciso-crenate, crenæ 
rotundate, apiculate; intermediate leaves shortly petioled or -ses:ile, ovate-cordate, often 
acuminate, 3:5—13 em. long, 2°5—7:5 сш, broad, inciso-crenate or serrate or the 
lower ones obscurely lobed, serratures acute or apiculate; uppermost leaves similar 
to the preceding, amplexicaul. Inforessenes a slender raceme or a lax, leafy 
panicle, or in alpine specimens reduced to a few flowers, crispo-pubescent; floral leaves 
like the preceding infrafloral leaves, but smaller, passing upwards into the rapidly 
decreasing ovate or lanceolate, crenate or (the uppsrmost) entire bracts ; bracteoles, if 
present, at or above the middle of tho podicel, elliptic or oblong, usually entire; pedicels 
erect, in the mature state often adpressed to the rhachis, lower up to 5 em. long, upper 
much shorter. Sepals more or less blue or violet, rarely whitish, with dark conspicuous 
veins, finely pubescent or glabrous; upper sepal almost navicular, obliquely erect, shortly 
or obscurely beaked, 18—90 mm. high, and as long from tip to base, widest (3—9 mm.) 
above the middle, lateral margin sinuous; lateral sepals very oblique and broadly 
obovate with dark tips, 14—90 mm. long., 12—20 mm. broad, not clawed ; lower sepals 
elliptic, obtuse or subacute, 8—10 mm. long. Neetaries glabrous, extinguisher-shaped ; 
claw erect, 16—18 mm. long, hood short (up to 4 mm.) and very wide, more or less 
gibbous above, lip very short and broad, obtusely 2-lobed or entire. Filaments 6—8 mm. 
long, glabrous or sparingly hairy, winged beyond the middle, usually abruptly contracted, 
rarely produced into short teeth. Carpels 5, contiguous, elliptic-oblong, shortly contracted 
into the slightly shorter style, crispo-pubescent with adpressed hairs. Foliieles contiguous, 
linear-oblong, straight, 16—18 mm. long, more or less glabrescent. „Seeds obpyramidal, 
3—4 mm. long, blackish-brown, angles acute or more or less winged, faces smooth. 
DISTRIBUTION: Соттоп in {Мм subalpine and alpine zme 9f the Himalaya, from the Indus 
to Китап, from 6,000 to 15,000 ft, : 
GiLGrr: Astor, Falzoner! (Hb. Kew), —PuxjAB: Marri Distr., 10,000 ft., Drummond 
2204 а! (Hb. Sah.) Marri, Flemming! (Hb. Edinb.)—Kasmwnm: Pir Panjal, Inayzt in 
IIb. Duthie 25374! (Hb, Kew), Falconer! (Hb. Sah,); Aliabad, 9,000 ft., Gammiz! (Hb. 
Sah.); Hispar, 6,000 ft, баттіг! (Hb. Sah.); Gulmarg, 9,000—10,000 ft., Stewart 696! 
(Hb. Kew and Cale); 8,000—9,000 ft., Hb. Duthie! (Hb. Sah.); between Gulmarg and 
Kilan, profusely among shrubs, Aréchison 81 (Hb. Kew); Liddar Valley, Duthie 13441 ! (Hb 
Sah.) Aru, Inayat in Hb. Duthie 25375! (Hb, Sah.); Liddarwat, 9,000---10,000 ft Рим 
195301 Hb. Sah.) ; Chhut Panjal Nala, Jayat im Hb. Duthie 253731 GE Kos - Bott la 
10,000 ft., Thomson! (Hb. Kew); “Tanaghan,” Falconer! distributed from Kew ar x of 
No. 74 (Hb. Kew aud Sah.), without precise locality, Falconer Kew Distr., 74! un 2 
Hb. Kew and Cale.),—BAUPISTAN : Gurais and between “ Mukbana beelungsa” and жый 
Chu, Falconer | (Hb. Sah.); between Suru and Sanko, Svoliczta! (Hb. Cale.).—Cnampa: 
Dalhousie, 8,000 ft., Clarke 22626 ! (Hb, Cale, and Sah.) and 25047! (Hb. Kew), Diamond 
