174 ACONITUM. 
8ккїм: Jongri, King’s Col.) (Hb. Cale); €. B. Ciarke! (Hb. Kew); Tenchang, 
13,000 ft., King’s 000.1 (Hb. Cale.); Jongli Pokri, 13,000 ft, King's Coll! (Hb. Cale.); 
Megu pasture, Prain’s Coll, 194! (Hb. Cale.); Tha-pah, 13,000 ft, King’s Coll! (Hb. 
Cale.); without precise locality, King’s Coll. 1889! (Hb. Calc,).—Trset: Chumbi, King’s 
Coll.! (Hb. Cale.); Meerik-la, King’s Coll. 636! (Hb. Calc.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
Puare 111. Aconitum leucanthum Siapf.—l, А specimen, cut above the lowest 
leaves; 2, ап infructescence; 3, a pair of tubers—natural size; 4, a flower, in longi- 
tudinal section; 5, stamens; 6, a gynccium; 7, a seed, back view; 8, the same, 
side view; 9, a portion of a pedicel; 10, a section through a daughter-tuber; 11, 
a section through an abnormal daughter-tuber, f: fissures, б: cavity, ic: inner 
cambium, ne: normal cambium—all enlarged. 
(1 and 4—6, from Jongli Pokri, King’s Coll; 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10, from Sikkim, King’s 
Cou. 1889; 3 and 11, from Jongri, King’s Coll.) 
20. Aconitum Etwest Stapf, sp. nov. 
A. variegatum Hook. f., Himal. Journ. ii. p. 107; Hook. f. & Thoms, Fl. 
Ind. р, 58, not of Linn. | 
A. uncinatum (?) Hook, f. Flor. Brit, Ind. i. p. 28, not of Linn. 
[Tree 8РЕСІМЕМ8: See under 'distribution,'] 
Roots unknown. Stem scandent, branched, flexuous, slender, terete, crispo-pubescent 
from adpressed reversed hairs, Basa’ laves unknown; intermediate and upper scatter- 
ed, petioled; petioles flexuons, upto З ст. long; blades pubescent, ultimately glabrate 
cordate-ovate or rotundate in outline, with a wide sinus, 0°5—1°5 em. deep z 
to more than 5 cm. long from the sinus to the tip, 4—6 cm. across ССА {о 
4—10, intermediate division rhomboid, acuminate, up to 9:5 om, wide, Беса] divisions 
trapezoid, up to 3'5 сш. long, unequally 2-lobed to the middle, all coarsely crenate 
. eren apiculate. Inflorescence axillary and terminal, racemose or subpaniculate debes 
or nodding, few to many-flowered, loose, pubescent; lower and нар А bracts 
representing reduced leaves, uppermost lanceolate or linear, entire, shorter than the 
pedicels; pedicels recurved, the lowest at length up to 5 ет. long; bracteoles linear 
or those of the lowest pedicels more or less dissected or lobed, Flowers erect (negatively 
geotropous). Sepals blue or violet, sparingly pubescent; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet 
broadly semi-elliptie in profile or almost semi-orbicular, suboblique, 20 —95 i high 
17—90 шш, from the tip to the base, 10—18 mm. broad, slightly concave o дөш : 
contracted in front, shortly beaked; lateral sepals sub-orbicular, suboblique, 14—16 e. 
long, long-ciliate, not clawed; lower deflexed, oblong, obtuse, 10—13 mm. long. Neetarics 
glabrous ; claw slightly curved, 12—15 mm, long; hood suberect, recurved Spurred, 5 mm 
long, lip rather long, slightly 2-lobed. Filaments 6 mm. long, winged up to x beyond 
the middle, wings more ог less abruptly contracted. Carpels 5, conniving labrous 
obliquely oblong, passing into а slender style, at length up to 4 mm. lo " Follioles 
(immature) 5, divergent, oblong, up to 12 mm. long, 3° mm, broad. Seed sake 
Distrisution: Alpine Himalaya of North-Eastern Sikkim. к” 
