162 ACONITUM. 
valley. А sample of tubers from Dudatoli was examined by des ul hee i: 
result that the daughter-tubers contained nearly 1 p. c. and the mother-tube 
" p Seres ы fhis Aconite which Prof. Balfour published as А. feroz in the Edinburgh 
New Philos Journ. of 1849 was drawn from а specimen raised from seeds sent by = a 
Superintendent of Saharanpur, Dr. William Jameson. No specimen was, however, рез P an i 
there is no record to show where the seeds had been gathered. Of the nine poisonous E 
the Rálam valley, mentioned by Duthie, Z c, and by Watt, n c, under the names p espe 
(phatikia, Watt*), bhanwa, kawriya, tiliya (dileya, Watt), dhaulia (dhanla Watt), d 
jhirina, gobriya, gobari (not in Duthie) and ratioa (not in Watt), I have Херд e — x 
"gobriya," “gobari” and “bhanwa” (also *banwa"), the others not having жип — md h: 
collections at my disposal. There is, however, a sample of roots дун к тад arium, ue ed by 
Watt, which represents either the form “ phatkia T (QE “ phutkia or “ій Па”) or that own аз 
*gobaria." It was communicated to Wait by I. S. C. Davis of Almora and accompanied by two 
herbariam specimens which are not at hand. Brühl describes, in a manuscript note in jor Calcutta 
herbarium, one (the phatkia plant) as having glabrous or sparingly hispid carpels and the other (the 
gobaria bikh) with hirsute carpels. As there is no vernacular name attached to the root sample, I 
cannot say to which of the two forms it belongs. The structure of the tuber is, however, exactly that 
of A. Balfourii, From Маз note on А. feroz var. polyschisum I infer that the specimens came from 
Garbyang, and there is no doubt that Brühl's var. polyschisa of 4. feroz belongs, at least ш part, 
to A. Balfourii. How far this also is the case with the other Aconites mentioned by Duthie I do not 
know, but Watt and Brühl seem to consider them аз local forms of “A. feror var. atrox” which in 
this case probably means A. Balfourii. A. ferox var. Jancifida Brühl, i. с. from the Rálam 
valley is probably one of them. I have not seen it. I may finally remark that Dalfour noticed 
a difference between the plant figured by him as 4. feroz and Wallich’s, and he says: "THO 
specimen does not agree completely, more specially as regards the form of the leaves, with the figure 
to Wallich’s Plantae Asiaticae Rariores. The variation may depend on situation." 
Prate 104, Aconitum Balfourii S/apf.—1, An inflorescence; 2, an intermediate 
cauline leaf; 3, an infructescence; 4, a pair of tubers; 5, a large daughter-tuber ; 
6, а mother-tuber with the base of the stem—natural size; 7, a flower, longitudinal 
section; 8, a nectary; 9, lip of а nectary; 10, а stamen; 11, а gyncocium; 1?, a 
single carpel; 13, a seed; 14, transverse section of a seed; 15, а portion of a 
pedicel; 16, transverse section of a daughter-tuber—all enlarged. 
(1, from Darma, Shibu, Duthie 2682; 2, 4—6, and 16, from Garhwal, Dudatoli, 
Ram Swarup; 3, 18 and 14 from Kumaon, Barjkang, Strachey and Winterbottom ; 
7—12 aud 15, from Kumaon, Wallich 4721 C.) 
Var. RHOMBILOBUM Stapf, 
Blates broadly cordate-ovate or subdeltoid in outline, 3-partite to 4—5, 5—9 om. 
from the sinus to the tip, 65—8-5 em. across, intermediate division rhomboid from a 
broad cuneate base, 3—4 cm. wide, distinctly or obscurely 3-lobed with almost contig- 
uous lobes, broadly apiculate-crenate, lateral divisions trapezoid, 3—4 сш. long, 2-lobed 
(at least in the lower leaves) to the midd'e, lobes contiguous or overlapping, crenate · 
or inciso-crenate, 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine Himalaya of Kumaon. 
Kumaon: Byans, near Garbyang, 19,000 ft., Duthie 2682! (Hb. Calo.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
* Watt’s names were copied from the field-!abels, 
