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There is only the mother-tube of the specimen preserved. It is very slender, cylindric with a 
discontinuous cambium. The inflorescence agrees so perfectly with A. Balfourii that I prefer to 
treat it as a variety of it, notwithstanding the peculiar leaves the segments of which are unusually 
broad. š 
14. Асомітом F'ALCONERI Stapf, sp. nov.* | 2 
A. feroz. Royle Ill. Him. p. 47 (in part); Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 
p. 98 (in part). е 
A. feror var. atroz Brühl in Ann, Roy. Bot. Gard, v. ii, p. 110 (in part) 
| figs. 15 and (2) 23. ; 
A. dissectum Royle, 1, с. 56, not of D. Don, Tausch and Stein, 
(Түр SPECIMENS : See under ‘distribution,’ } 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous; daughter-tuber conic to cylindrie from a broad, 
truncate base, up to 8 сш. long to 2 cm. thick, entire or divided, bearing more 
or less numerous filiform  root-fibres, externally brown, fracture white, slightly 
farinaceous or horny, taste somewhat bitter, followed by a strong burning and tingliug 
sensation, eambium continuous, forming іп transverse section a slightly sinuous 
ring ; mother-tuber similar, much shrunk and wrinkled. Jnnovation-bud very short 
and broad, conic, bud-scales very short, broad and clasping, soon decaying after 
sprouting, Slem erect, simple, up to 1 m, high, moderately stout, finely pubescent or 
sub-glabrous in the upper part, quite glabrous below. Leaves scattered, 10 or more, 
if many, the upper sometimes rather crowded, the intermediate usually very distant, 
the lowest decayed at the time of flowering;t petioles slender, lowest up to 12 
сш. long, upper much shorter, uppermost very short; blades rather thin, very 
sparingly and finely pubescent or glabrous, with the exception of the nerves at the base 
below, lower and intermediate rotundate-cordate to reniform in outline, with а very 
wide and open sinus, 1—3 cm. deep, 6—10 сш. high from the sinus to the tip, 12—15 
cm. across, 5—subpedati-partite to 9 or more in the inner, to $ or more in the outer 
incisions, inner divisions rhonboid-cuneate, 3-lobed to the middle with the inner lobe 
elongated and pinnati-laciniate, outer divisions much smaller, trapezoid, 2-lobed, all 
the lobes and laciniae broadly incisodeatate, teeth usually triangular; upper blades 
very similar, but smaller and less deeply divided or 3-partite with the intermediate 
division much larger than the lateral, Inflorescence an erect, stiff, usually dense raceme, 
about 15—20 em. long, rarely lax and with slender, few-flowered, ascending, additional 
branches from below, finely adpressedly pabescent or rarely with short spreading hairs; 
axis rather slender ; lowest bracts 3-partite, upper ovate to deltoid, all acutely and 
coarsely dentate; bracteoles usually present, resembling the upper bracts, but muc" 
most adpressed to the axis, lowest up to 4 em. 
smaller; pedicels slender, erect, often al ів, lo 
long, the upper much shorter, Sepals b'ue with very dark tips (in the dry state), 
pubescent ; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet obliquely semi-orbicular in profile, very 
shortly beaked, 16—22 mm. high, 18—22 mm. long from the tip to the base, 8-9 
mm. wide; lateral sepals oblique, sub-orbieular, or obovate-orbicular, 14—15 mm, long 
lower sepals oblong-elliptie, ob:use, 8—10 mm. long. Nectaries extinguisher shaped, claw 
erect, 13—15 mm, long, minutely hispid, hood leaning forwards or almost horizontal, 
БС = 
æ Name mentioned in Holmes, Museum Report Pharm. Soc. Great Brit. for 1895—1902, p. 3. 
on next page. 
t Consult general remarks in smaller iy pe 
Ann, Roy. Bor. Garp. Calc. Vor. Х. 
