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decayed at the time of flowering, intermediate and upper leaves rather distant 
pubescent when young, at length glabrous, with the exception of the nerves biloy; 
lower petioles up to 75 сш. long, intermediate and upper much shorter, „бй 
dilated at the base, blades dark-green above, paler below, orbicular or ovate-cordate 
Or subreniform, with a narrow or wide sinus, 1—9 сш, deep, 7—9 em. from the sinus 
to the tip, 10—12 cm, across, 3-partite to 7, intermediate division rhomboid-ovate from a 
broad cuneate base, 3-lobed to the middle, middle lobe much longer than the lateral, 
lateral divisions trapezoid, very unequally 2-lobed to the middle, all the lobes coarsely 
inciso-crenate or dentate, crenz apiculate or acute. Inflorescence straight, racemose, 
narrow, up to 30 em. long, many-flowered, rather dense, yellowish-tomentellous and slightly 
viscous; lowest bracts resembling the preceding leaves, following ovate or lanceolate, 
inciso-dentate or dentate, uppermost often entire ; pedicels erect or the lower ascending, 
lowest up to 9 em. upper 25 em, long; bracteoles, if any, inciso-dentate or dentate, 
small Sepals blue, pubescent; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet oblique, sub-semi-orbi- 
cular in profile, slightly concave in front and shortly beaked, about 20 mm. high and 
20 mm. from tip to base, 10—13 mm. wide, very shortly and broadly clawed, latera] 
sepals suboblique, orbicular or slightiy broader than long, up to 16 mm. long, obscurely 
clawed; lower sepals elliptic or  broad-oblong, obtuse, 12—14 mm. long.. Nectaries 
glabrous, claw erect or slightly curved, 12-13 mm. long; hood leaning forward, rather 
wide, dorsally gibbcus near the top, about 6 mm, long; lip short, broad, emarginate or 
crenulate. Filaments hispidulous in the upper part or almost glabrous, 6 mm. long, broadly 
winged to beyond the middle, wings gradually or abruptly running out. Carpels 
5, oblong, yellowish-tomentose, conniving in the flower, then slightly divergent. 
Follicles oblong, slightly divergent above, otherwise contiguous, locsely hairy or giab- 
iate, 12 mm. long, 4-5 mm. broad. Seeds obpyramidal, trigonous, 8—$:5 mm. long, 
dark-brown, broadly winged along the rhaphe, faces with narrow transverse lamellae 
giving out towards the back. 
DISTRIBUTION : Subalpine and Alpine Himalaya from British Garhwai to Nepal. 
British GARHWAL: Dudatoli, in forest 7,500 ft., Ram Swarup! (Hb, Kew) and with- 
out precise locality, 13,C00— 14,000 ft., Duthie! (Hb. Edinb).—Koumaon: Barjikang, in 
open situations, 19,500 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom 31 (Hb. Kew); Pindari, Sírachey 
and Winterbottom 3! (Hb. Brit. Mus.); Milam, 13,000 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom 
3! (Hb. Cale); Pass above Ralam, 13,500 ft., Strachey and Winterbottom 31 (Hb. | 
Cale); Byans, Kali Valley, near Garbyang, 12,000 ft., Duthie 26821 (Hb. Sah.) 
Darma, near Shibu, 12,000—13,000 ft., Duthie 2691! (Hb. Sah.); without precise 
locality, Blinkworth іп Hb. Wallich 4721, С! (Hb. Linn, Soc, London; Hb. Kew, 
exclusive of the inflorescence on the right; and Hb. Cale.); Ра» Cell. Reg. No. 8322! 
(Hb. Calc.)—Nepan: Nampa Gadh, 12,000—13,000 ft, Duthie 5274! Gossain Than, 
Wallich’s Coll. 4721 B! (Hb. Kew, Hb. Wallich at Linn. Soc., London; Cale.); without 
precise locality, Scully 220! (Hb, Cale.); Waif's Coll. No. 22! (Hb. Pharm. Soc., London). 
VERNACULAR NAMES: Gubriya, Darma, Duthie on a label in the Calcutta Herbarium; 
Gobari, West Nepal, Duthie on a label in the Calcutta Herbarium; Banwa, British 
Garhwal. Duthie on a label in the Edinburgh Herbarium. Sce also Duthie, Rep. Bot. 
Gard. Saharanp. and Muss. (1855), р. 47. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: “Gobriya” is quoted by Duthie, 7. с. (see also Goris, $ e, 
and Watt, J. c, p. 97), ss the name of one of the nine poisonous Aconites of the Rálam 
