168 ACONITUM. Е 
oblique type; 5, nectary, usual glabrous form; 6, lip of the same ; Г, 2. 
nectary; 8, lip of tha same; 9, а stamen; 10, a -gynecium; 11, a single сагре!; ‚а 
seed, froit view; 13, а seed, back view; 14, cross-section of а seed; 15, a portion 
of a pedicel —all enlarged. in 
(1, 3, and 15, from Sandakphu, Wat?s (q; 2, 12, 18, and 14, from Tonglo, King; 
4, 7, and 8, from Lachung, J. D. Hooter; 5, 0, and 9—11, from Phalut, T. Thomson.) 
16. ACONITUM LACINIATUM Stapf, sp. nov.* ER 
A. feroz var, ісіпіша Brühl in: Ann. Roy. Bot. Guard, Calcutta, T ow 
p. 111 (in part) plate 111, figs. 7, 8, 17, and 30; Watt in Agric. 
Ledger (1902), No. 3, pp. 90-97. 
(Tyre specimens: See under 'distribution.'] 
Roots biennial, tuberous, paired; daughter-tuber conic-oblong, often rather drawn 
out into a slender point, 3:5—6 cm. long, about 1:5—2 em. thick, simple or divided, 
with filiform root-fibres, which are generally not mach thickened at the base, browa 
externally, fracture whitish, or pale brownish, almost horny, taste indifferent or very 
slightly bitter, followed by a tingling sensation; cambium continuous, forming a 
sinuous ring in cross section; mother-tuber similar, usually much shrank and thinner. 
I movation-bi.d an acute cone, up to 1 cm. high, outermost scale one very short, cla:ping, 
soon decaying after sprouting. Slem erect, stiff or flexuous, 6 to 9 dm. high, simple, 
terete, slender to rather robust, finely pubescent in the upper part with adpressed 
reversed hairs, otherwise glabrescent or quite glabrous and shining, drying usuaily 
chestnut brown. Leaves scattered; basal 5—6, rarely 8, decayed at the time of flowering, 
rather distant; intermediate and upper leaves up to 10, approximate or congested, 
petioled, petioles rather slender, 2:5—7-5 сш. long; blades somewhat fleshy, finely 
pubescent. or almost glabrous, roniform, rarely cordate-orbieular in outline with a 
usually wide and shallow sinus, 4—7, rarely to 10 cm. from the sinus to the tip, 7—12 cm. 
across, 5-podati-partite almost to the bass» in the inner, to 3 
2—6 іп the outer incisions, 
inner divisions sub-equal, rhomboid from a narrow cuneate base, up to 5 em. wide, 3-lobed 
to the middle, lobes narrow, inciso-dentate or laciniate, laciniae lanceolate or linear, 
acute or acuminate, outermost divisions a symmetric, mostly unequally 2-lobed, other- 
wise similar to the inner but smaller. Inflorescence yacemose or usual] У loosely paniculate, 
fow- to many-flowored, finely greyish pubescent with adpressed curved hairs; lower 
bracts similar to the preceding leaves, but smaller and less dissected, intermediate and 
uppe: lanceolate, sparingly laciniate or tho uppermost entire and very narrow; 
pedicels ascending, slender, lowest 3:5—5 ‘rarely to 7 `5) em. long, upper much shorter; 
bracteoles- herbaceous, resembling the upper bracts. Sepals saturated red-purple ог 
dark red, finely pubescent; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet erect or suberect, equally 
curved іп front and on the back, or slightly concive in front, produced into a short 
lip or beak, about 20 mm. high and 20 mm. from the tip to the base, 9—13 mm. wide 
claw broad, short; lateral sepals very oblique, suborbicular, ciliate, 14—16 mm. bie. 
broadly and obseurely clawed; lower deflexed ог subhorizontal, oblong жы 
12—14 mm. long. Nectaries hispidulous, at least below; claw slightly SERE in 
12 mm.long; hood suberect or slightly leaning forward, 6 mm. bur gibbous йы almost 
spurred on the back close to the apex, lip short or elongate, rather broad, 2-lobe4. 
oned in Holmes, Museum Report, Pha-m. Soc, Great Brit. for 
* Name meni 
1895—1902, p. 3. 
