172 ACONITUM, 
25—3'5.em. long, the upper gradually shorter; blades finely pubesceat, particularly on 
the nerves below, ovate to reniform in outline with a wide sinus, wed em. deep, 
3'5—6 cm. from the sinus to the tip, 3—12 сш. across, 3-partite to 3-2, or sometimes only to 
£, intermediate division elongate-rhomboid, mostly subacuminate, up to 3°5 cm. wide, 
lateral divisions trapezoid, 1:75—5 сш: long, very unequally 2-partite to 2—$, all the divi- 
"ions copiously inciso-dentate or laciniate in the lower part, lacinize acutely (rarely obtusely) | 
dentate; uppermost leaves very similar, but smaller and less divided with the intermediate 
division often much exceeding the lateral. Inflorescence racemose or panicled with 
additional branches from the upper leaves, few- to many-flowered, rather lax, pubescent ; 
lower bracts like the preceding leaves, intermediate smaller, less dissected, as long as or 
longer than the pedicels, uppermost lanceolate, dentate; pedicels erect, lowest up to 
955 em. long., upper much shorter; bracteoles mostly linear close to the flowers, or scarcely 
any. Sepals blue or white and blue, pubescent; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet more 
or less oblique in profile, scarcely depressed, wide, 16—24 mm. high, 15—22 mm. from 
the tip to the base, 8—12 mm. wide; slightly concave in front, shortly beaked, claw broad, 
short; lateral sepals oblique, broad-obovate, ciliate, up to 22 mm. long; lower horizontal 
or deflexed, oblong, obtuse, up to 16 mm. long. Nectaries hispidulous all over; claw 
slightly curved, up to 16 mm. long; hood almost erect, terminating in a short recurved 
spur, up to 8 mm. long, lip obovate to subspathulate, erenulate." Filaments hispidulous 
in the upper part, 8 mm. long, winged to or beyond the middle, wings suddenly or 
gradually running out. Carpels usually 5, sometimes 3, rarely 6 or 7, more or less 
diverging, oblong, contracted into the slender curved style, fulvo-pubescent, particularly 
on the back. Follicles 5 or 3, опе or more of them frequently arrested, at first divergent, 
at length almost straight and contiguous with the exception of the top, linear-oblong, 
up to 20 mm long, 4 mm. broad, pubescent or glabrate. Seeds oblong-obpyramidal, 
3 mm. long, winged along the rhapue, with hyaline, undulate, transverse lamella, 
running out towards the back. | 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine Himalaya of South-Western Sikkim. 
Sikkim: Singalela Range, 10,000 ft., С. В. Clarke 13507! (Hb. Brit. Mus. Calc. and 
Brandis); Sandakphu to Phalut, boundary road (34 miles), 11,000 ft., Rogers, 20-9-1900! 
(Hb, Cale.); Sandakphu to Subarkan, 11,000 ft., Rogers, 20-9-1900! (Hb. Cale.); Sanda- 
khan, Rogers! (Hb. Calc.); Sandakphu, 12,000 ft., Rogers, 24-8 and 4-10-1899! 11998! 
(Hb. Cale.); Ling.too, 10,000 ft., King’s Coll. 1889! (Hb. Cale.); “Sikkim,” without 
precise locality, 10-1857, T. Thomson! (Hb. Calc.) | 
VERNACULAR NAME: Nirbanshi, Rogers. | 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown (see the paragraph on Jadwar, p. 123). 
Prate 110. Aconitum heterophylloides Slapf.—1, Ап inflorescence; 2—5, сапіпе 
leaves ; 6, ап infructescence ; 7, а pair of tubers—natural size; 8, a flower, in lial 
section ; 9, а stamen; 10, a gynecium; 11, a seed, front view ; 12, a seed, side 
view; 13, а cross-section through a daughter-tuber— a enlarged, ; : 
