178 7 ACONITUM, 
fip, 6—8 em. across divisions similar, but the outer smaller and more с: اچ‎ asym- 
metric, pinnatifid, laciniae linear, the lower divided again, subacute. nflorescences 
terminal and from the axils of the upper leaves. Sepals glabrous in bud, Сағре 5, 
glabrous (at least when quite young). dcs 
ISTRIBUTION : Alpine region of the inner Hima aya. . : 
RT) Gossain "Than, "Walls coll., Wallich Cat, 4724 (Hb, Wallich, Linn. Soc.)! 
without precise locality, Scully! (Hb. Cale.) 
VERNAC. NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
А specimen resembling D. Don's А. dissectum very closely in habit, and к leaves of ed 
the same out, was collected by Littledale in the Goring Valley, 90? 25': A. 12 at about с: ft. 
(Hemsley in Journ, Linn. Soc. ххху. 1902, р. 164); but the inflorescence inclusive of the rt 
is greyish pubescent. Another specimen collected by Soulié at Ta-tsien-lu, Szechuan, (N °. ), is 
quite glabrous and also agrees, во far аз it goes, with the Gossain Than plant. Both specimens are, 
however, not in very good condition, and bave no roots, It will be necessary to have more complete 
material from Nepal before a satisfactory definition of Don's A. “dissectum can be given. 
Pate 114A, Aconitum dissectum Don.—AÀ specimen in Wallich’s herbarium at the 
Linnean Society (cut at *j—natural size, 
Section ПІ. -GYMNACONITUM Srapr. 
Root fusiform, annual, 
24. ÅCONITUM  GYMNANDRUM Maximowiez in Bull. Acad. Petersb. xxiii., (1877), 
308 (Mel. Biol. ix. 7 11); Flor. Tangut., P. 26, t. vi. figs. 1—6; Brühl 
in Ann. Roy, Bot. Gard., Calcutta, v., ii, P. 118, t. 125; Diels in 
Futterer, Durch Asien: Beschreib. d. Pflanz., p. 9. | 
[ТҮРЕ SPECIMEN :— Collected by Przewalski in Kansu in 1872.] 
Annual, Root slender, usually vertically descending, fusiform with humerous fine 
root-fibres, taste slightly bitter. Sem simple and erect, or branched from the base with 
usually ascending branches, from a few inches to 8 feet high, slender to robust, more or 
less hispid, hairs long, fine, spreading, few below, dense in the upper part. Leaves 
scattered, or in dwarf specimens gathered in a basal rosette, hispid like the stem, petioled ; 
petioles slender, lowest up to 6 cm. long, upper much Shorter, or all rather short, blades 
reniform, rotundate to ovate in outline, 1:5 —5 em. long, 2—6 cm. 
base or ternate with distinct petiolules, divisions similar, but 
and more or less asymmetric, more or less pinnatipartite, 
variable in width. Inflorescences terminal, racemose or panieulate from addit 
lateral racemes, slender, narrow, loose or dense, hirsute, Lower bracts resembling the 
preceding leaves, upper much reduced, uppermost linear-lanceolate, subentire ; pedicels 
the intermediate 
| usually entire, close 
to the flower, Sepals violet to dark-blue, Softly hispid with long white hairs; uppermost 
helmet-shaped, helmet almost navicular, much depressed, contracted into а long linear 
| 9-4 mm. wide at the top; 
| as long as or shorter than the 
rotundate limb, 15—17 mm. long, limb up to 8 mm. across; lower sepal similar but 
