NAPELLUS. 159 
[TYPE specimens: See below under ‘ distribution.'] 
: Roois biennial, tuberous, paired; daughter-tuber conical, rather elongated, up to 
65 em. long and at the upper end up to 18 mm. thick, with very few filiform root. 
fibres, brown externally, fracture scarcely farinaccous, whitish, taste indifferent followed 
by a strong tingling sensation, cambium discontinuous, broken up into strands 
arranged in aring, the smaller circular in cross-section, the larger tangentially flattened ; 
mother-tuber similar, more or less shrunk, wrinkled, with long filiform ЕИ. 
Innovation-bud a very low broad obtuse cone; scales very broad with a clasping base, 
decaying after sprouting, Stem several feet high, erect, straight, simple, terete, 
sparingly and finely crispo-pubescent in the upper part, otherwise glabrous, shining, 
or in young plants sparingly pubescent all along. Leaves up to 10 or 12, scattered, 
lower usually decayed at the time of flowering, the upper 6—8 rather distant, 
sparingly hairy when young, especially towards the margins and оп the nerves below, 
soon glabrescent; petioles slender, mostly 5—7 cm. long, dilated at the base; blade 
reniform or ovate-reniform in outline, with a very wide sinus or an almost truncate 
base, 5-pedati-partite almost to the base (to 15—19 in the inner, to 2—1 in the outer 
incisions), inner divisions subequal or the intermediate distinctly longer, rhombic 
from a cuneate base, up to 8 cm, (or the intermediate to 10 ст. long’, 5—6:5 cm. broad, 
3-lobed to the middle, intermediate lobe much longer than the lateral, lobes deeply 
laciniate, lacinie linear or broad-lanceolate, entire or sparingly inciso-dentate, shortly 
acute or subobtuse, outer divisions asymmetric, usually to or beyond the middle, otherwise 
similar to the inner, but smaller. Inflorescence straight, racemose, simple or sometime 
with an additional branchlet from near its bass, 30—40 cm. long, narrow, not very 
dense, greyish crispo-pubescent; lowest bracts similar to the preceding leaves, or like 
the rest much reduced, coarsely and sparingly dentate, the uppermost very small; 
pedicels erect, slender, lower up to 65 em. long, upper much shorter; bracteoles linear, 
up to 4 mm. long, or on the lower pedicels broader and sparingly dentate. Sepals blue, 
crispo-puberulous; uppermost helmet-shapel, helmet more or less oblique, depressed, 
15—20 mm. high, 17—22 mm. from the tip to the base, about 7 mm, wide (in profile), 
slightly concave towards the base in front and produced into a short beak, shortly and 
broadly clawed; lateral oblique, suborbicular, scarcely unguiculate, ciliate, 14—18 mm. 
long; lower oblong, 10 mm. long, obtuse, deflexed. Necétaries hispidulous all over; 
claw almost straight, 12—13 mm. long; hood leaning forward, gibbous near the top on 
the back, 5 mm. long, lip short, broad, emarginate, reflexed. Filaments hairy in the 
upper part, 8—10 mm. long, winged beyond the middle, wings abruptly contracted. 
Carpels 3, oblong, conniving in the flower, then subdivaricate, adpressedly  greyish- 
pubescent, contracted into the rather long style, Follicks unknown. Seeds obconic, 3 
mm. long, terete with numerous small short transverse lamellae. 
DISTRIBUTION : Alpine Himalaya of Dashahr. | 
Влвнанв: Jani Kanda, Minniken, Wat's Reg. No. 13999! (Hb. Kew); letter 
No. 1703 (Hb. Calc.)! Ind. Invoice No, 6806. Imp. Inst. No. 7149 (Imp. Inst.)! 
VERNACULAR NAME: Mohra, Watt’s Coll; Maura Bikh, Cleghorn, l с.; Stewart, 
1, с, 
PROPERTIES AND uses: Watt quotes, in Agric. Ledg. |. с. с G. Minniken 
as saying “that in his part of the country (Bashahr) the poisonous aconites are 
