NAPELLUS. 165 
with the exception of Royle’s, have tubers which resemble externally those of A. Falconeri and 
far as I have been able to see from Duthie’s two specimens also internally. This, and the әкіміне 
suggest that they аге young states of А. Falconeri, а late flowering (end of August to October) 
species; but the comparison was rendered somewhat difficult by the circumstance that the young specimens 
had only the lower leaves well developed, whilst these had already disappeared through decaying from 
the flowering plants, and also by the fact that they did not seem so closely connected with the inter- 
mediate and upper leaves of the latter as one might expect. The young lower leaves point indeed rather 
to A. d inorrhisum than A, Fulconeri, being more cut up with ultimate lobes or lacinia longer and more 
linear than in the mature specimens of A. Falconeri. А. deinorrhizum is, however, excluded on acocunt 
of the structure of the root, and on the whole І am inclined to connect, after all, the young state 
represented by A. dissectum Royle with A. Falconeri. No doubt, it will be easy to settle this 
question by observation in the field. 
РглтЕ 105. Aconitum Faleoneri Síapf.—A; Typical form: 1, an inflorescence; 2 
а pair of tubers; 3, ап infructescence,— natural size; 4, a flower in longitudinal 
section; 5, a nectary; 6, lip of а nectary; 7, stamens; 8, gynecium ; 9, a 
single carpel (8 and 9 represent the uhusual slightly hairy state); 10, a seed; 11, 
a portion of a pedicel of a very hairy inflorescence; 12, transverse section of a 
daughter-tuber—«aA enlarged. В; var. latilobum б/ар/-18, ап intermediate cauline 
leaf; 14, a pair of tubers—natural size. 
(1 and 4—9, from Tihri Garhwal, Kedarkanta, Falconer ; 2, from Royles specimen 
named “А. palmatum”; 3 and 10, from Mussooree; 11, from Garhwal, Badrinath, 
Falconer; 18 and 14, from Bashahr, Watts Collector 15039.) 
` 15.  ACONITUM SPICATUM Stapf, sp. nov.* : 
A. feroz Hook. f. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. i. p. 56 and Hook. f, Fl. Brit. 
Ind. i. p. 28 (partly, from the specimens at. Kew), not of Wallich 
ех Séringe. 
A. feror vars. spicata (for the greatest part),  Aeerophylloides (in part), 
laxiflora and crassicaulis Brühl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 
v, ii, p. 110, plate 111, figs. 6, 16, 21, 28, 29. 
A. feroz var. spicatum Goris in Bull. Sc. Pharm. iii (1901), p. 117, 
fig. 32; Watt in Agr. Ledger (1902), Nos. 3, 94, 
A. feroz var. crassicaule Watt, l. с. 96. 
A. Napellus: Gammie in Кес. Bot, Surv. Ind. i, No. 2, p. 19. 
[TYPE SPECIMENS : See below under: ‘distribution,’ ] 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous, daughter-tuber conic or conic-oblong, often rather 
elongated, 10—20 cm. long, 1'8 —3 cm. thick, simple or sometimes deeply divided, with 
filiform root-fibres the bases of which are sometimes abruptly thickened and persist 
as conical or ovoid stumps, brown or blackish externally, fracture horny, yellowish or 
brown in the dry state, taste slightly sweetish-bitter, followed by a tingling sensa- 
tion; eambium continuous, forming in. cross-section a more or less sinuous ring; 
mother-tuber similar, shrunk and wrinkled. Innovation-bud а very broad, much 
with broad clasping scales, decaying soon after sprouting. Stem 
straight or slightly flexuous above, simple terete or 
sometimes ав much as 9 cm. in diameter, 
depressed cone 
erect, up to 15 m. high, 
sometimes slightly angular, robust, 
Pharm. бос. Great Brit. for 1895—1902, гр. 3, 38. I do not consider 
and made by Mr. Holmes on p. 38. They were published without 
* Name mentioned in Holmes, Museum Report, 
myself responsible for the siacements attributed to me 
my knowledge. 
Axx. Roy. Bor. Garp. CALC, Vor. X. 
