160 ACONITUM. 
collectively designated Mohra.” The poisonous principle of this aconite is pseud- 
aconitine, А sample of roots from Bashahr (Ind. Invcice, No. 6806, Imp. Inst. 
No. 7149) which I refer to A. deinorrhizum, yielded according to Prof. Dunstan 
(in Agric. Ledg. 1897, No. 19, p. 4) 0-40 р. с. of pseudaconitine. 
The “ Aconitum ferox” mentioned by Madden in his “ Diary of an excursion to 
the Shatul anl, Boorun Passes” (in Journ, As. Soc. Bengal, xv. 1846, p. 95) is evi- 
dently A. deinorrhizum, He says of it: “Тһе other species, Aconitum Jeroz, 18 called 
Moura bith or simply “ Mora” (from mri, to die) and is reckoned extremely poisonous. 
It only occurred in one spot, a mile or two above Kala Koondar, growing in an 
extensive patch, the stems from four to six feet high, with long dense racemes of 
splendid deep-blue flowers: the follicles three.” 
The Mitha didya of Aitchison (Trade Prod, Leh, р. 175), of which he says that 
it grows in the Kulu hills and “upon being boiled or steeped in hot water becomes 
black and then was called mitha teliya and as frequently kala mohra,” is probably also 
this species, if not A. Juleoneri var. latilobum. x 
Prare 103. Aconitum deinorrhizum Stapf.—1, Ап inflorescence; 2 and 3, caulino 
leaves; 4, а pair of tubers—na/ural size; 5, a flower, in longitudinal section; 6, lip 
of a nectary; 7, a stamen; 8, a gynecium; 9, a single carpel; 10 ала ll, seeds; 
12, transverse section of a seed; 13 and 14, transverse sections (halves) of а daughter- 
tuber—a// enlarged. 
(All from specimens from Jani Kanda, Watts Coil.) 
13. Aconitum Влгғосвп Stapf, sp. nov.* 
A. feroz Wall. РІ. Аз. Rar. i. p. 35 (in part); Balf. in Edinb. New Phil. 
Journ. xlvii. (1849), p. 366, tab. v; Bentl & Trim, Med. Pl. No. 5 with 
plate (in part); Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl, Ind. i. 56 (in part); Hook, f. Fl. 
Brit, Ind, i, 28 (in part); Atkins, Gaz, N.-W. Prov. p. 412, not of Wall 
ex Séringo. 
А. feroz var. atror Brühl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Cale. V. part H, p. 110 
(in part ?); Watt in Agric. Ledger (1902), No. 9, p. 97 (in Pun 
А, feror var. polyschiza Brühl ex Goris in Bull, Seiene. Pharm. iii ( 1901) 
118 (partly ?); Watt in Agric. Ledger (1902) No. 3, p. 98 Сані ?) zur 
[ ТҮРЕ SPECIMENS: See under ‘ distribution] us 
Roots biennial, paired or ternate, tuberous; daughter-tubers sometimes 
divided from the base, conic or . elongate conico-cylindric, 3—7 сш. lon 1-9 
thick with few root-fibres, which are either slender-filiform or шы thick E 
(up to 5 mm. diam.) at the base, externally greyish-brown, fracture white Tem 
horny, taste rather. indifferent, followed by а tingling Sensation, cambium distent = 
ous, broken up into strands arranged in a ring, the smaller. circular in tr а 
vorse section, the larger tangentially flattened to horseshoe-shaped ; mother tubers ud 
often, numerous root-fibres much shrunk, grooved and wrinkled with conical stu 
(root-fibre bases), collapsed. Innovation bui а much depressed, broad, obtuse со Ex 
hemisphere, scales broad with a clasping base usually decaying after sproutin n = 
erect, several feet high, straight, robust, simple, terete, delicately. жамыл iks 
upper part, otherwise usually quite glabrous. Leaves Scattered, 6—10, the E 
paired or 
* Name mentioned in Holmes, Museum Report, Pharm, Soc. Great Brit. f. 1895--1902, pp. 2, 38 
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