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Plants of the Pimjah. 



Herbs, Erect, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves. 



Petals ununited. 



Delphinium 

 cashmirianum, 



Amlin. 



Eanunculace^. 

 F.B.Li. 26. 

 Himalava, 

 11-16,000 ft. 

 Kashmir. 



like tlie last species, but more softly hairy, smaller, 

 flowers in a flat-topped cluster, formed of few-flowered 

 racemes, spur straight, conical, sepals 1 in. long, follicles 

 3-7. 



Aconitum 

 Lycoctonum, 



Kanunculace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 28. 

 Himalaya, 

 7-11,000 ft. 

 Baghi Forest 

 (Collett). 

 Kashmir. 

 The Chor. 



large, perennial, smooth or velvety, stem hollow, 

 much branched ; leaves 6-10 in. diam., deeply divided, 

 circular, segments 5-9, lobed and sharply toothed, lower 

 long-stalked, upper nearly sessile ; flowers 1 in. long, pale 

 yellow, or dull purple in long, branched, terminal racemes, 

 felted, bracts minute, sepals 5, petal-like, ununited, upper 

 one helmet-shaped, with a short beak and a long dorsal 

 cylindrical or conical prominence, the others flat, the 2 

 lateral broader than the 2 lower and much shorter than 

 the helmet, petals 2 or 4, concealed \Aithin the sepals, 2 

 upper in the helmet, long-stalked with a short concave 

 spurred blade, 2 lower very small or absent, stamens 

 many, flat, wide at the base, tapering upwards, styles 

 short, straight ; follicles 3, spreading, seeds many, coat 

 folded. 



Aconitum Napellus, 



see Herbs, Unbranched, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Aconitum 

 heterophyllum, 



Atis, sukliihari. 

 Eanunculace^. 

 F. B. I. i. 29. 

 Himalaya, 

 8-12,000 ft. 

 Fagu, Narkanda 

 (Collett). 



Mahasu, Kashmir, 

 Hazara. 



medium size, branched or not, leaves 2-4 in. diam,, 

 ovate or circular-heart-shaped, more or less 5-lobed or 

 toothed, teeth blunt or short-pointed, stalked, upper leaves 

 stem-clasping, sharply toothed, sessile, flowers 1 in. long, 

 dull green- blue with purple veins, in many-flowered branch- 

 ed racemes, bracts sharply toothed, helmet-pointed in 

 front, top rounded, lateral sepals as long as the helmet, 

 follicles 5, downy, seed coat smooth ; for other characters 

 see the last species. The root of this plant supplies a 

 valuable febrifuge, atis. 



