GYMNACONITUM, x 181 
DISTRIBUTION: Alpine region of {Ле Himalaya of Nepal. 
NEPAL: sources of the Kosi river, Нат оте Coll, ! (Wallich’s own] herb, Lirm. Soc.) 
VERNACULAR NAME: Nirbishi or Nirbikhi, (Nepal) Hamilton. 
PROPERTIES AND USES: See the paragraph on Jadwar, p. 192, 
The specimen is too young for identifleation, but I consider it closely allied to A. heterophylloides 
or A. leucanthwm if it is not indentical with one of them. 
Ртлте 114B. Caltha? Nirbisia Ham.—1, Тһе specimen in Wallich’s 
Herbarium at 
the Linnean Society—natural size; 2, a portion of the 
stem—enlarged, 
Other plants supposed to be Aconites and yielding Dikh are indicated іп several 
papers and notes. "Thus М. C. Cooke quotes [in Pharm. Journ. and Trans, iii, ser, III. 
(1870) 561] а Captain Lowther writing from Assam, in 1859, that the great Alpine 
region of the Digaru country abounds with the plant furnishing Bish, This is praeti- 
cally the same region as that in which Griffith found A. lethale, Gammie (Rec. Bot. Surv. 
India, i, No. 5, p. 74) states that roots of Aconitum Харе! 
las aad perhaps other species 
are used by the hill tribes (the Abors) to make their deadly arrow-poisons, and that 
the plants are said to grow only on the interior highlands, inhabited by the Tibetans, 
Finally, Pottinger, in Pottinger and Prain (Бес. Bot. Surv. India, i., Хо. 11, p. 223), relates 
that the Yawyins (in the extreme north-east of Burma) use metal-tipped arrows which, 
moreover, they peison. Apparently, to judge by the symptoms induced, an Aconitum 
is used for the purpose. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. 
Aconitum salisburifolium Griff. Itin. Not. 306 ; 
collected in Kullu Mountains, 
Afghanistan. This is a species of Delphinium, 
Ass. Roy. Bor, Garp, Carc, Vot. X. 
