164 ACONITUM. 
slightly constricted or obscurely gibbous on the back ; close to the top, lip spathulate, 
broad, crenulate. Carpels 5, obliquely oblong, conniving in the flower, soon slightly 
divergent, gradually passing into the rather long style, quite glabrous and black when 
dry or sometimes more or less very minutely silky pubescent. Follicles erect and 
contiguous or slightly diverging upwards, oblong, rounded at the top, 14—18 mm. 
long, 4—5 mm. broad, glabrous, faintly reticulate. Seeds brown, obconic, 8--4 mm. 
iong, winged (often broadly) along the rhaphe, with undulate, hyaline, rather wide 
and distant transverse lamellæ, : 
DISTRIBUTION: Subalpine and Alpine zone of the Himalaya of Garhwal (See also below). 
Тенві-ОАЕНЯА,: Kedarkanta, Royle! (Hb. Sah.); Duthie’s Coll. (Hb. Sah.); 
Falconer Kew Distr. 69, partly! (Hb. Kew and Cale.); Jamnotri, near the hot springs, 
11,000 ft., Duthie! (НЬ, Sah.); Gulmar Pass, 12,000—13,000 ft., Duthie 725! (Hb. Sah. 
and Edinb.); **Mussooree," with no further indication (Hb. Sah.)!—Brrrish Garawat: 
without precise locality; Falconer Kew Distr. 68! (Hb. Kew); on Trisul near Bowani, 
Falconer! (Hb. Kew); Badrinath, Falconer Kew Distr. 69, partly! (Hb Kew.) 
VERNACULAR NAMES: Біз, Bikh, Meetha tellia, Royle, in an incomplete manuscript 
catalogue (of Himalayan plants) at Kew. . 
PROPERTIES AND uses : Evidently poisonous, 
VAR. LATILOBUM Stapf. | | 
Roots up to 12 cm. long and 95 cm. thick, with few fibres. Upper leaf-blades 
3-partite to $; up to 65 cm. high, 10 сш. across, divisions broadly deltoid or the 
outer trapezoid, up to 4'5 cm. broad, shortly 3-or (the outer) 2-lobed, lobes coarsely 
erenate cr dentate.. Inflorescence tomentose with spreading hairs. Carpels quite glabrous. 
Distribution: Bashahr; Nagli, Wa/?s Coll. Reg. No. 15039! (Hb. Calc.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Kala mohra, Bashahr, according to Watt’s Collector. 
. PROPERTIES AND USES: This is evidently the plant to which Watt refers in the 
Agric. Ledger, 1903, No. 8, p. 96, when quoting G. ©. Minniken, as saying that 
"it is called Kala-mohra in allusion to its being a more, deadly poison than the 
толға,” 
.. Boyle collected А. Faleoneri on Kedarkanta. A specimen named in his handwriting “Aconitum 
virosum ?— bis and by Falconer “Aconitum ferox—virosum Don”. is in the Saharanpur collection, and 
в beautiful eoloured drawing from Royle’s collection with the same names in Royle’s own handwriting 
is at Kew. It corresponds to the * Aconitum ferox Wall.—virosum, Don" of R oyle's manuscript 
exiogue (68 р. 43) with the vornacular names “bis, bikh, raestha а» ond the locality 
: in his IZustration E 
Himalayas refer, so far as they are based on his own observations. tions of the Botany of the 
Royle seems to have collected А. Falconeri a second time on the Same mountain, but in a ve 
young state, во that he did not recognise it, but took it for A. dissectum D. Don. Ho enumerates (а 
1. Him. p. 56) А. dissectum as found at Aarga’on, on the west side of Kedarkanta, adding that it 
was remarkable that it had never been found in flower, I have seen Royle’s specimen du ое 
Saharanpur herbarium, Although young and imperfect, there can be no doubt that it is not identical 
= P Don's 4. dissectum in Wallich’s herbarium at the Linnean Society, London. О : th жаг 
hand, it agrees perfectly with a number of other specimens collected, in a Mode иза о x е а 5 
and in other parts of Tehri-Garh wal, namely: Kedarkanta 10,000—11,000 ft. Ma : Бар = en а 
1084! (Hb. Sah.); Chansil range, Chandar Tach, 11,000 —12,00) #., 27th Ma aes thie Таи, 
Garhwal, without precise locality, King, 1870, and " Mussooree Range," King, iu. Mg: ісе 
