158 ACONITUM. 
А. palmatum as not poisonous.” On the other hand, J. D. Hooker says positively, 
in the Himalayan Journal, i. p. 168, that A. palmatum yields one of tho celebrated 
" Bikh poisons,” and also on the label accompanying the specimen collected by him 
on Tonglo “one ‘Bikh’ poison; Gnuing-rip-gmok” (gniong being the Lepcha term 
for the Sikkim kinds of bikh, Him. Journ, 4 c.); but from а sample in the Kew 
Museum of roots marked “ Bikh poison, Aconitum palmatum” by J. D. Hooker, it is 
evident that he was misled as to the poisonous nature of А. palmatum, the foots 
mentioned being unmistakably those of A. spicatum. Speaking of A. palmatum, Royle 
remarks in ШІ, Himal., p. 57: ‘This species, though not found by the author, no 
doubt exists in the same tract of country as the foregoing species (ie. А. /о2), as 
there is a drawing from Dr. Govan marked A. hibiscifolium, by Dr. Wallich, which 
is quite different from any of the foregoing, though a good deal resembling this 
species.” There is, however, at Kew a fragment of a manuscript catalogue of plants 
of the North-Western Himalaya in Royle’s handwriting: and with notes by Falconer, 
and in this catalogue Royle indicates A, palmatum from “ Choor, Uructa, Suen.” 
Moreover, there is іп the Saharanpur herbarium a specimen named А. palmatum by Royle 
himself, from the Chor Mountain, collected in 1825, This determination was subsaquently 
changed correctly by Falconer into A. 000. Later collectors also fell into the samo 
error, as is evident from their specimens in the Saharanpur herbarium, and I have 
no doubt that also Madden’s A. palmatum, stated by him (in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, xv., 
1846, p. 129) as growing “in the deepest recesses of the woods” of Mt. Hattu and 
(7. с. p. 130) in the Pindrow forest of Nagkanda, is really A. /aeve* As to Govan’s 
A, hibisctfolium, it is probably the plant to which he refers in Brewster's Edinb, 
Journ, Science, ii (1895), р. 282, in the following passage: “ Оп the very summits 
of the Choor first appear the Juniper, Alpine Rhododendron, and the lofty Aconite, 
the well-known poisonous effects of which, when taken internally, seem to have given 
rise to a belief among the natives that it poisons the air in the vicinity.” This 
I believe is neither A. palmatum nor A. laeve, Wallich quotes Govan’s Sirmore plant under 
A, fuor. | 
Prate 102. Aconitum palmatum D. Don.—1, Ап inflorescence; 2, a lower cauline 
leaf; 3, an infructescence ; 4, a pair of tubers; 5, a particularly large tuber—natural size; 
6, а flower, in longitudinal section ; 7, а nectary; 8, а stamen ; 9, a gynecium; 10, 
a single carpel; 11, a seed, back view; 12, а seed, front view; 
of a daughter-tuber—-a/] enlarged. 
(1 and 2, from Sikkim, Tonglo Range, Rogers; 8, 11, and 12, from Tonglo Range, 
Clarke 27597 ; 4 and 13, from Tonglo Range, Watts Coll., Reg. No. 13939: 5 С 
Sikkim, Watt. s Col, No. 1484; 6—10, from the Sikkim-Tibetan frontier, Yale 
Hobson.) of 
12, Aconitum DEINORRHIZUM Stapf, sp. nov.f 
A, feroz Clegh. Rep. Forests Punjab and West Himal, p, 67 ; Stewart. 
3 Punjab Plants, p. 1 (in part), not of Wall. ex Séringe, 
. Jerox vars. laciniatum and atroz Watt in Дотїс, с | 
p. 96 (Minniken’s plant) and 97, in part. ===. (1902) No, 3, 
А. atroz and A. Brühli Goris in Bull. Sc. Pharm. iii, (1901), p. 192 
13, transverse section 
(in part), 
® This, Sir George Watt assures me, is actually the case, 
T Name mentioned in Holmes, Museum Report, Pharm. Soc, Great Brit. f. 1895 71902, рр. 3, 38 
