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Plants of the Punjab, 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Simple Leaves, 



Petals none. 



Luzula spicata, like the last species, but smaller, 2-10 in. high, flowers 



JuNCACE^. larger in a solitary oblong drooping bracteate head. 



F. B. I. vi. 401, 



Himalaya, 



12-14,500 ft, 



Kashmir, 



Herbs, Unbranched, with Alternate Exstipulate Lobed Leaves, 



Petals ununited. 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Ranunculus 

 falcatus, 



Ranunculus 

 muricatus. 



Delphinium 

 unclnatum, 



Delphinium 

 incanum, 



Delphinium 

 vestitum, 



Delphinium 

 eashmirianum, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed, 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 

 see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



Aconitum Napellus, 

 Monk's hood, 



Bikh or Bish. 

 Eanucilace.e. 

 F. B. L i. 28. 

 Himalaya, 

 10-13,000 ft. 

 east of the Sutlej. 



small to large, perennial, smooth or slightly velvety ; 

 leaves deeply palmately divided, segments linear, much 

 divided ; flowers f-1 in. long, bright or dull greenish-blue, 

 in simple or compound few-or many-flowered racemes, 

 bracts entire or divided into three, sepals 5, petal-like, 

 posterior (helmet) three times as long as high, shallow, 

 tapering to a slender beak, the rest flat, 2 anterior nar- 

 rower than the lateral, petals 2-5, 2 posterior stalked, 

 hooded, enclosed in the helmet, 3 lower small or none, 

 stamens many ; folHcles 3-5, sessile, hairy, seeds many, 

 smooth. The root contains a deadly poison, it is used 

 in medicine. 



Aconitum 

 heterophyllum, 



see Herbs, Erect, Alternate, Exstipulate, Lobed. 



