NAPELLUS. 169 
Filaments hispidulous in the upper part, 7 mm. long, winged up to or keyond the 
middle, wings gradually or abruptly running out, Carpels 3, rarely 4 or A, connivin 
in the flower, oblong, attenuate into a slender, finely curved style, daidi ш 
adpressedly pubescent. Follicles at first divergent, then conniving, contiguous, lintar- 
oblong, more or less convex on the back, 18—25 пш, long, 5—6 mm. wide: finely 
pubescent. Seeds obpyramidal, 8-gonous, 3 mm. long, brown, broadly winged along 
the rhapke, with transverse, undulate, hyaline lamellae, 
DISTRIBUTION: Suba/pine and Alpine Himalaya of Sikkim and adjoining Tibet. 
біккім: Singalela Range, Phullalong, 10,000 ft., Clarke 12707! (Hb. Kew); Sandakpbu, 
Subarkan, 11,000 ft., 20-9-1900 Rogers! (Hb. Cale.); Sandakphu, 12,000 ft., Gambie 
8478A and 8479! (Hb. Kew); King’s Coll. 1887 and 1888! (Hb. Cale.); Rogers, Reg. 
No. 11724 (Hb. Kew and Sah.); lett. No. 11779, Reg. No. 8484! (Hb. Fharm. Soc. 
London); To-ko-la, King’s Cull., 23-8-1877! (Hb. Cale.); King’s Coll, 25-8-1878! (Hb. 
Cale.); Yak-la Cho-la запре, 14,000 ft, Gammie! (Hb. Cale.) Chola, King’s Coli. 
No. 4483! (Hb. Cale); Lachung, Gammie! (Hb. Calc.).—Tiset: (Chumbi?), without 
precise locality, King’s Coil, 1882! (Hb. Calc.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Kalo В ота, Rogers; Watt in Agric. Ledger (1902) No, 3, p. 
96 (see also А. spicatum). | 
PROPERTIES AND 0818: According to Rogers, it forms together with Bikh (Aconitum 
spicatum) the article known as “Nepal Aconite.” ! 
Although A. spicatem and A. lacinatum are easily distinguished by their foliage, flowers and 
fruit, it is very difficult to sort small-sized tubers of A. spicatam and large-sized of Ai 
luciniatum, 
Prats 108. Aconitum laciniatum Stopf—1, Ап inflorescence; 2, an intermediate 
cauline leaf; 3, part of an infructescence; 4, a pair of tubers (large size)— natural 
size; 5, a flower in longitudinal section; 6, a nectary; 7, lip of а nectary ; 8, a 
stamen; 9, a gynocium; 10, a single carpel; 11, a seed, side view; 12, а seed, 
front view; 13, section through a daughter-tuber— all enlarged. 
> (All from Sandakphu;1 and 2, Rogers; 3, King’s Coll. 1888; 4 and 6—13, Май? 
Coll. Reg. No. 11724; 5, Gamble, 8478 А.) 
17. Aconitum FEROX Wall. ex Séringe, Mus. Helv. i, (1823) p. 160, tab. xv. 
боғ, 43, 44; Wall. Cat. 4721A ; Séringe in DC. Prodr. i. p. 64; Wall. 
Plant. As. Rar. i. p. 95, tab. 41 (partly); Hook. f. & Thoms. КІ. 
Ind. i. p. 56 and Fl, Brit. Ind. i p. 28 (partly); Kohler Mediz. 
Pñ. iii. No. 68 (partly) with plate, not of others. x 
A. irosum D. Don Prodr. Fl. Nep. p. 196. r 
A. Napellus var. rigidum Hook. fil. & Thoms. Fl. Ind. i. p. 29 (in part). 
A. disscetum Stein. in Gartenflora, 1886, p. 226, fip. or p. 227 (copied 
from Wallich), not of D. Don, nor of Ti -- 
[ ТҮРЕ SPECIMEN: Specimen communicated by Wallich, to A. P. DeCandolle as 
' «Aconitum ferox Wall.” іп 1819, in the Herb. DeCandolle, Geneva. Of this I have 
seen an excellent photograph, which I owe to Mr. Casimir DeCandolles kindness. 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous; daughter-tuber ovoid-oblong to. ellipsoid, 2:5— 4 cm. 
long, about 1—1:5 em. thick, with few filiform rcot-fivres, dark-brown externally, fracture 
scarcely farinaceous, yellowish, taste rather indiffcrent, followed by a strong tingling 
