176 | ACONITUM. 
Tubers of this species were collected by Griffith in the higher parts of the Mishmi mountains in 1 836, 
and transferred to a garden at Sadiyah. From a specimen raised from those tubers Griffith described 
and figured his А. ihale, He states that he saw only one flower and this was deformed. There are, 
however, 4 excellently preserved flowers in the Kew Herbarium, presumably collected after he had written 
out his description. Unfortunately the flowers are detached, and it is consequently impossible to say with 
certainty what the inflorescence was. 
The very slender, flexuous and probably scandent stems, the small leaves, the long and slender pedicels 
and the shape of the nectaries distinguish it sufficiently from A. palmatum, to which A. Jethale has been 
reduced. Its affinity lies, among the Indian species, probably with A. E/wesii from which it differs in the 
eut of the leaves and the shape of the nectaries. 
Puare 112 B. Aconitum lethale Grifith.—1, A barren specimen, tips broken off; 2, а 
large-sized leaf: 8 and 4, detached flowers—natural sizz; 5, a flower in longitudinal section; 
б, ú nectary ; 7, stamens; 8, agyncecium; 9, a single carpel—aill enlarged. 
(All from Griffith’s specimen at Kew.) 
22, Aconitum Nacarum Stapf, sp. пот. 
A, feroz С. В. Clarke in Journ, Linn, Soc. xxv. (1890) р. 8, non Wall. ex 
Séringe. U 
[ТҮРЕ SPECIMEN: See under ' distribution.) 
Hoots paired, biennial, tuberous; daughter-tuber unknown; mother-tuber much shrunk, 
slightly over 2 сш. long, broken up longitudinally in consequence of the more or less 
complete decay of the secondary phloem in which the vasal strands formed by the dis- 
continuous?) cambium are embedded, taste quite indifferent, Innovation-bud (see note below) 
conie, slender, over 1 cm. long. Stem erect, stout, almost 1 m, high, simple, terete, finely 
pubəscont in tae upper part with adpressed reversed hairs, otherwise glabrous. Leaves 
scattered ; basal leaves approximate, the very lowest decayed at the time of flowering, 
upper few and very remote, lowest petioles up to 60 em, long, widened, sulcate and amplexi- 
caul at the base, upper much shorter; blades glabrous, rather firm, cordate-reniform in 
outline, with a wide sinus 5—8 cm. deep, 8—11 cm. from the sinus to the tip, 12—20 cm. 
across, 3-partite to the very base, intermediate division obovate-cuneate, 5—8 сш, broad, 
3-lobed to the middle, intermediate lobe equally 3-, lateral unequally 2-lobuled, lobules acute, 
sharply 1—2-dentate, lateral divisions 8—19 cm. long, unequally 2-partite to ё, lobes 8- or 
2-lobuled, lobules sharply and very coarsely dentate, nerves Very prominent below. 
uppermost leaf, over 30 сш. long, greyish pubescent; axis short; lower and intermediate 
bracts foliaceous, 3-partite and inciso-dentate to ovate and entire, shorter than the pedicels ; 
pedicels erect or sub-erect, lowest up to 25 cm. long; bracteoles none or very small on 
the lowest pedicels, Sepals blue(?), pubescent; uppermost helmet-shaped, helmet depressed, 
semi orbicular in profile, obliquely descending into an obscure beak, 20 mm, high, 17-18 
mn. from the tip to the base, 7 mm. wide, claw rather distinct; lateral sub orbicular, 
sub-oblique, sometimes obscurely clawed, 14—15 mm. long; lower deflexed, elliptic, 
subacute, 8—10 mm. long. Nectaries glabrous, claw very slender, 17 mm. long; hood 
very narrow, 4 mm. long, tip widened and gibbous on the back, lip obcordate as long 
аз the hood. Filaments glabrous, winged to the middle, wings abruptly or gradually 
contracted. Carpels 5, somewhat conniving, oblong, pubescent, gradually passing into 
