166 ACONITUM. 
adpressedly greyish-pubescent with deflexed hairs, glabrescent or quite glabrous in the 
lower part, brown or almost black when dry. Lowest 5—8 leaves decayed at the time 
of flowering, their scars rather distant; intermediate and upper leaves as many 
as 12, approximate or congested, petioled; petioles 2:5—7'5 cm. long, dilated at the 
base; blades somewhat fleshy, more ог. less ‘finely pubescent ог at length glabrous 
above, orbicular cordate or reniform or broadly ovate (particularly the upper) with 
a usually shallow sinus, 3-partite to #—# ог the upper to $, intermediate division 
rhomboid or ovate from a linear cuneate base, sometimes acuminate, 5—10 cm. long, 
3—T'5 cm. broad, lateral divisions separated by a narrow sinus from the intermediate, 
broad-trapezoid, 9:5—7:5 em. long, very unequally 2—3-partite to $—$, all the divisions 
much inciso-dentate or laciniate with acute dentate laciniæ. Inflorescence stiff, racemose 
or often panicled, narrow, many flowered, dense, rarely loose and subflexuous, more 
or less tomentose with spreading or deflexed hairs; lower bracts like the preceding 
leaves, but smaller, more elongate and less dissected, longer than the pedicels 
in'ermediate and upper lanceolate or oblong, sparingly dentate or entire, often’ 
over 2 cm, long, pedicels erect, rather stout, lower over 2°5 em. long, upper much 
shorter; bracteoles, if any, herbaceous, rather broad and dentate, or narrow 
and entire to very narrow. Sepals of a saturated blue, more rarely pale or 
purplish blue, more or less pubescent to almost tomentose; uppermost helmet-shaped, 
helmet erect or slightly oblique, depressed, semi-orbicular in profile, almost equally 
curved in front and on the back, 20—24 mm. high, 20—24 mm. from the tip to 
the base, 12—15 mm. wide, produced into а very short beak, claw very short and 
broad ; lateral sepals oblique, suborbicular, 12—18 mm. long, obscurely clawed ; lower 
horizontal or deflexed, oblong, obtuse, 8—12 mm. long. Necéaries glabrous or 
scantily hispidulous, claw slightly curved or straight, 10—12, rarely to 14 mm. long, 
hood much leaning forward or subhorizontal, dorsally gibbous or almost spurred on tho 
top, 6—8 mm. long, lip usually short, broad, emarginate. Filaments glabrous or sparingly 
hispidulous in the upper part, 7—8 mm. long, winged to or beyond the middle, wings 
gradually running out or suddenly contracted into small teeth,  Carpels 5, oblong or 
ovoid, contracted iato the slightly shorter style, densely tomentose. Policies 5, oblong, 
somewhat turgid, contiguous, about 10 mm. long, 4—5 mm. broad, hairy. Seeds 
obpyramidal, about 4 mm. long, winged along the rhaphe with undulate hyaline 
transverse lamella on the faces. 
DISTRIBUTION :A/pine zone of the Himalaya of Sikkim and Chumbi. 
біккім: Tonglo, 10,000 ft, King, 28-10-1875! (Hb. Calc.) ; Sandampuk forest 
Proin’s Coll. 631 (Hb. Сас); Sandaklam, Rogers! (Hb. Cale.); Singalela de 
Phullalong, . 10,000 ft, С. B. Clarke 12€93A! (Hb. Kew); 12693 B, D, and E! 
(Hb. Cale); 13483 B! (Hb. Cale. and Edinb.); Bikhabanjan, 11,000 ft. жы 
21-9-1900! (Hb. Cale.); Samdong, Prain’s Coll.! (Hb. Calc., a state with а bs nicle), 
Sandakphu, Subarkhan, 11,000 ft., Rogers, 20-9-1900 ! (Hb Gale, -an аң % 
11,800 ft, Уайз Coll, Reg. No. 11723, 16-9-1899! (Hb. Sah.); 12,000 ft Watts Coll 
Reg. No. 11723, 20-10-1899! (Hb Kew and Sah.); 12,000 ft., Gamble 7] Band t 
(Hb, Kew, Hb. Cale); 71 H! (Hb. Kew); Phallut, 10,000—12,000 ft. T) 
5-10-1857 ! (Hb, Cale, and Kew); Hooker 114! (Hb. Kew); 6. В. Clarke ma ы 
Cale); Kurz! (Hb. Cale); 12,000 ft, 8-10-1875, Kings Gull, 796! (Hb. Cale, a (Hb. 
with a lax panicle); King’s бой, 1888! (Hb. Cale.); Thunku, 12,000 ft, King p 
