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Sgm: Climbing in shrubs on moraines near Lachung, 9,000 ft, J. D. Hooker! 
(Hb. Kew); Gammie! (Hb. Cale.); between Lamteng and Samdong, Prain! (Hb. Cale.); 
Lachen, Prain’s Coll. 317! (Hb. Cale.); Younghusband! (Hb. Cale); without piod 
locality, Elwes! (Hb. Kew ) à 
VERNACULAR NAME: “ Tukschak Gniong,” J. D. Hooker, on the label, 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Sir Joseph Hooker remarks оп the label attached to his 
Lachung specimen: 7% good Bikh," from which it may be inferred that the natives 
know it as & strong poison. 
This species is perfectly distinct from the American A. uncinatum Linn. It belongs to а poly- 
morphic group ‘of scandent species ranging from Western China to Siberia and Japan, and approaches 
particularly A. Hemsleyanum Pritzel, of Central China, which differs in the glabrous stems and leaves 
the broad depressed top of the nectary hood and the generally broader leaf-segments, 
Рглте 112 А, Aconitum Elwesii S/apf.—1, А portion of a plant, with two pen- 
dulous inflorescences—natural size; 2, а flower, in longitudinal section; 8, a nectary; 
4, stamens; 5, а gyncecium; a portion of a pedicel—ail enlarged. 
(All figures from a specimen from Lachung, Gammie.) 
21. Асомітом LETHALE Griffith, Not. iv., p. 732; Ic, Pl. Asiat. DCLX, fig. iii. 
A. palmatum Hook. £., Flor. Brit. Ind. i. p. 28 (the Mishmi plant), not of Wall. 
(TYPE SPECIMENS: Specimen raised by Griffith from tubers collected by him іп the 
Mishmi Hills, at Kew.] 
Roots (according to Griffith) fusiform, whitish or brown, bearing root-fibres. Siem 
scandent |?), branched, flexuous, slender, terete, glabrous or the uppermost part pubescent 
from minute adpressed reversed hairs, Basal leuves unknown; intermediate and upper 
leaves scattered, petioled; petioles slender up to 5 cm. long; blades ‘shining, bright 
green above, pale below, glabrous or scantily. pubescent on the nerves below, cordate-rotun- 
date in outline with a wide sinus or reniform, 3-partite to 5 (or the small leaves of the 
branches 5 lobed to the middle), intermediate divisions narrow, obovate-cuneate, almost 
5 em. long, up to 1:8 em, broad, lateral divisions trapezoid, up to 8:5 ст. long, unequally 
divaricate-2-lobed to the middle, all coarsely dentate, teeth apiculate. Inflorescence loosely 
racemose (?', slightly pubescent ; bracts foliaceous, 3-lobed, lobes sparingly dentate ; pedicels 
slender, 3:5—7:5 cm, long; bracteoles foliaceous, 3-partite, divisions dentate, up to 12 mm. 
long, or more or less reduced, near the flower. Sepals blue (?), slightly pubescent ; upper- 
most helmet-shaped, helmet semiorbicular-elliptic in profile, 18—20 mm. high, 18—20 mm. 
from the tip to the base, 12 mm. broad ; lateral oblique, orbicular-obovate, shortly and 
broadly clawed, up to 16 mm. long, 10--12 mm. broad; lower deflexed, broad elliptic, 
subobtuse, up to 16 mm. long. Nectaries glabrous, claw erect, 19—14 mm. long; hood 
erect, oblong, very shortly spurred from the top, 6 mm. long, lip broad, 2-lobed. Filaments 
glabrous 8—9 mm, long, winged to or beyond the middle, wings gradually or suddenly 
contracted, Carpels 5, obliquely oblong, sparingly pubescent, 
DisrgrBuTION: Higher parts of the Mishmi mountains, Grifith, Kew Distrib. 19! 
(Hb. Kew.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: This is according to Griffith the source of the celebrated 
“Bhi” or ' Bis" poison of the Mishmis. 
