180 . ACONITUM, 
Aconitum? sp. (Корота Bisa). 
A. feroz Wall. Cat. 4721, D (in part); Plant. Asiat, Rar. i. р, 36 (in part). 
Caltha Codua Ham. іп Edinb. Journ. Sc. i, 1821, p. 251. 
C.? Codoa Ham, ex Madden in Trans, Bot. Soc. Edinb, v, 1858, p. 127. 
Youna SPECIMEN. Root tuberous (according to Hamilton). Stem erect, flexuous, 
4 mm, thick, deeply grooved, very softly pubescent, almost silky in the upper part, 
lower internodes 9—10 cm, long. Leaves scattered; petioles rather slender, up to 14 cm. 
long, striate, widened at the base; blade rather thin, softly pubescent, at length 
glabrescent, peltate, almost orbicular in outline, unequally and deeply 7-partite, inter- 
mediate (upper) division longest, rhomboid from a cuneate base, 10 em. long from 
the insertion of the petiole to the.tip, 7 cm, wide, 3-lobed to the middle, lobes 
sparingly laciniate-dentate, teeth coarse, broad, apiculate, lateral divisions similar, but 
gradually smaller and less divided, the two basal up to 5 сш. long from the insertion 
of the petiole to the tips, sinus between them reaching to one-half of their length, 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine region of the Himalaya of Nepal. : 
NEPAL: snowy mountains at the sources of the Kosi River, Hamilton's Coll. ! (Wallich’s 
own herb., Linn, Soc. London). à 
VERNACULAR NAME: Kodoya Bish or Kodoya Bikh, Mamilton. 
Properties AND USES: Hamilton says that he belioves this’ to be the true 
“Toxicaria Indorum radix." 
The peltate leaves, the strongly sulevte stems and {Пе өз, almost silky tomentum . of the 
youngest parts of the plant, have hardly a parallel in the genus Aconitum, but the general 
cut of the leaves is not unlike that of an 4. Balfowrii with the lower divisions of the blade fused 
up to the middle. I have tried various genera of  Banunexlacsa? and other orders, but without 
coming across а genus more fitting the Kodoya plant than Aconitum, except perhaps Ra rsucudus. 
Prate 116. Caltha? Codoa Ham.—1, The specimen in Wallich’s herbarium at the 
Linnean Society— natural size; 2, a portion of the stem— enlarged, | 
ACONITUM sp. (Хїйвїзн: op Намплов.) 
Cultha Nirbisia Ham. in Edinb, Journ. Sc. 1,1894, p. 957. 
C. Nirbisia Ham. ex Madden, Trans, Bot. Soc. Edinb. v, 1858, p. 197. 
А. feroz Wall. Cat. 4721, D, (in part) ; Pl. As, Rar. i. p. 36. (in part). 
foots bicnnial, paired, tuberous; mother tuber (young) globose-ovoid, 1-5 em. long, 
over l cm. across, with strong root-fibres, taste faintly bitter, not followed by any 
tingling sensation. Seales of innovation-bud broad, obtuse, thin. Stem (very young) 
very finely pubescent. Leares scattered, lowest 2 or 3 close to the base, the follow- 
ing remote; petioles slender, up to 15 сш. long; blades finely pubescent when quite 
young, soon glabrescent, ovate or deltoid-orbicular-cordate in outline, with a sinus 
about 2 cm. deep, 3:5—4-5 em. from the snus to the top, 5—6 cm, across, 3- 
partite to near the base, intermediate ‘division elongate-deltoid, 2—25 em. wide, 
pinnati-laciniate in the lower, coarsely dentate in the upper part, lacini, entire or 
with 1 or 2 teeth, acute, lateral divisions trapezoid, unequally 2-lobed beyond the 
middle, lobes laciniate or coarsely dentate, = 
