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somewhat smaller and the limb more ovate or elliptic. Nectaries glabrous or very sparingly 
hairy; claw erect, up to 14 mm. long, hood large, slightly leaning forward or erect 
top dorsally gibbous, lip very large rotundate, denticulate. Filaments hispidulous cana 
up to or beyond the middle, wings gradually or abruptly contracted, long қалана 
Carpels up to 12, parallel, oblong, abruptly contracted into the slender style, more or los 
villous or hirsute. Follicles oblong, rotundate, truncate, about 10 mm. long, 3 mm. broad 
slightly divergent in the upper part, more or less glabrescent, Seeds obpyramidal, 
blackish, 2 mm. long, transversely minutely lamellate. í 
DISTRIBUTION: Central Asia from the Sikkim frontier to Kansu and kski 
Puart: Kang-ma, on the banks of the Penamong-chu, 60 miles to the north of 
Phari town, King’s coll. 1878! (Hb. Cale); Ting, King’s сой, 1879! (TR, Olo): ива 
without precise locality, King’s coll. 1877! and 1882! (Hb. Cale.).—Kratra (Eastern 
Tibet): Tongolo, Soulié 424! 665! (Hb. Kew)—Szecuvan: Tachienlu, between 9,000 and 
13,000 ft., Pratt 507! 496! (Hb. Kew and Cale.);—Kansu: near the convent Kadiger, 
Potanin! (Hb. Kew); mountains to the east and north of Kuku-nor, іп alpine 
meadows, up to 11,000 ft., Przewalski, according to Maximowicz. 
VERNACULAR NAME: Unknown. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: Unknown. 
Prate 115. Aconitum gynmandrum JMaríw.—1, An unbranched flowering speci- 
men; 2, a branched specimen, partly in fruit—natural size; 3, a flower in longitudinal 
section; 4, a lateral sepal; 5, a nectary; 6, a stamen; 7, a gynecium; 8 and 9, 
seeds; 10, a portion of a pedicel—all enlarged. 
(All from specimens collected in Phari.) 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES, 
Aconitum sp. (Japwan-Karnar). 
Tubers conic from an almost truncate base; about 3 сш. long, 15 сш, in 
diameter, rarely more (up to 45 by 2 сш), brown, moderately wrinkled, with few 
fibre-scars or sometimes with the stumps of thickened root-branches, fracture horny 
or cartilaginous, brown, taste very bitter (like quinine), not followed by any tingling 
sensation; cambium continuous, forming in transverse section a sinuous ring with con- 
spicuous short radial lines within the cambium, corresponding to the xylem strands 
which project rather more towards the centre than іп other species. Jnnovation-bud 
rubbed off, leaving a large almost orbicular scar in the middle of the truncate base. 
DISTRIBUTION: Inner Himalaya of Nepal. 
NEPAL: Khywong, trade samples, obtained by Capt. Strachey! (Mus. Kew). | 
VERNACULAR NAMES: Nirbisi (Hindi); Bomar (Botee); Jadwar (Регв.) according to 
Capt. Strachey. | | | 
PROPERTIES AND USES: See the paragraph on Jadwar on p. 124. 
Very similar specimens are preserved in the museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, Londen, 
presented by Dymock and marked as “Judwar from Delhi, the only kind sold at Bombay.” They 
are, however, smaller than Strachey’s, and usually more abruptly contracted (hence turnip-shaped) 
about 2 cm, by 1:5 cm., and have a sweetish taste which is almost free from bitter. They answer 
fairly well to the description of Mooden Sheriffs (Suppi. Pharmacop. Ind, p. 30) third variety of 
Jadwar which he considers to be Jadwar-Kathsi, 
Ann. Roy. Bor. Garp. Caxc, Vou. Х. 
