NAPELLUS. 171 
: PROPERTIES AND USES: Ав the specific names suggested by Wallich (aíroz and feroz) 
imply, the plant has the reputation of being extremely poisonous. It is very probably 
the source or one of the sources of the “Bish, Bikh" or * Hodoya Bish" of Hamilton 
(Account of Nepal, p. 99), but it is not his Caltha Codua. 
All the specimens quoted above agree absolutely with each other and also with the plant figured 
by Wallich in his Plantae Asiaticae Rariores, i. tab. 41 ав А. feroz, with the exception of the 
tubers, and there can be no doubt as to what Wallich meant originally by his А. feroz. Later on, 
it is true, he confused other species with it, as his distribution set and the text in the work cited sho 
At that time, however, Séringe had already published a description of Wallich’s 4, feroz from one ч 
the original specimens, and the name A. feroz will therefore have to be retained for the s à 
represented by those originals. As to the tubers figured in Wallich's plate, they differ so Wide bim 
the tubers I have seen still attached to Wallich’s specimens in the Kew and Copenhagen collections = 
in the photograph of the type in DeCandolle's herbarium that I cannot help suspecting that the draughts- 
man added tubers of another Aconite, possibly of 4. Balfourii, on to the stem of A. feroz. In an dh 
there is only a crushed fragment of а half-decayed mother-tuber of А. feroz in Wallich's own ا‎ 
I would only add that the cross-section of a tuber, shown іп Wallich’s plate, represents the cambium as š 
continuous sinuous ring, whilst the original drawing which is at Kew and from which the plate was made 
has in the placé of the ring some faint patches which might just as well have been meant for isolated 
strands. 
Pirate 109. Aconitum ferox Wall. ex Séringe.—1, Ап inflorescence; 2, a basal leaf; 
3, an intermediate cauline leaf; 4, a pair of tubers with the hypogzous rooting part of 
the stem; 5, mother-tuber and old bud-scales removed ; dt, daughter-tuber; ib, innovation 
bud of the same; s, hypogzous portion of the stem with rootlets and root-scars; 6, an 
infructescence—natural size; T, a flower, in longitudinal section; 8, а nectary; 9, a stamen ; 
10, a gyncecium; 11, a single carpel; 12, a seed, back view; 13, a seed, front view; 
14, а transverse section of a seed; 15, a portion of a pedicel; 16, & transverse «оно 
through а daughter-tuber, partly eaten by ап insect—all enlarged. 
(АП from Wallich's original in W. Hooker's herbarium at Kew, excepting figs. 4 
and 16 which were drawn from specimens in the Copenhagen Herbarium.) 
18. AcoNITUM HETEROPHYLLOIDES Stapf, sp. nov. 
A. feroz var. heterophylloides Brühl in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Caleutta, v, ii, 
p. 110 (in раг, plate 111, fig. 18. ) | 
A feror var. leucanthum Brühl, 1. e. (in part). 
[Type өресімен: See below under ‘ distribution." | E. LES 
Roots biennial, paired, tuberous ; daughter-tuber ellipsoid or ovoid, bearing few filiform 
root-fibres, 1°25—2°5 cm. long, 9—14 mm. thick, externally blackish, internally brownish 
when dry, fracture almost horny, taste pure bitter, not followed by any tingling sensation, 
cambium very delicate, forming, in cross-section, а sinuous ring, which is sometimes 
interrupted in places; mother-tuber similar, but more or less shrunk and wrinkled. 
Innovation-bud conical, about 6 mm. high, acute, scales ovate, almost keeled, the outermost 
one very short and clasping, soon decaying after sprouting. Stem erect, often bent in a 
zigzag line, simple, conspicuously angular from long decurrent acute ridges continuing 
the petioles, rarely more than 30 cm. high, moderately stout, adpressedly pubescent from 
mostly deflexed hairs or glabrescent below. Leaves scattered 5—9, basal and lower 
leaves decayed at the time of flowering, intermediate 9:5--3:5 cm. distant, petioled ; petioles 
Axx. Roy. Вот. Garp. Carc, Vor X. 
