102 ANNALS OF ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
LATE 120. Delphinium altissimum, Wall. 1, part of infructescence of var. phallutensis ; 2, (on the right) nectariferous 
taminode of the same ; 3, pistil of var. nipalensis; 4, the same of var. phallutensis ; 5, ditto of subspeeies drepanocen- 
rum; 6—9 staminodes; 6, of var. phallutensis; 7—9, of D. drepanocentrum ; 10—13, refer to D. drepanocentrum ; 10, 
lateral вера! ; 11, posterior sepal, 12, (2 on the left) nectariferous staminode; 13, stamen; 14, ripe follicle of var. phallutensis 
Ртлте 121, fig. ll. Seed of Delphinium altiesimum Wall. 
DELPHINIUM sTAPELIOSMUM, P. Brühl. 
(D. altissimum, Н. f. et T. in the Flora of Br. India as to the Khasian зресітетз.) 
Stem erect (40—) 70—150 em. high, branched, beset with stiff retrorse hairs 
especially upwards; leaves very pale below, reniform or suborbicular, cordate, more or less 
deeply tripartite, lateral segments trapezoidal unequally bilobed, all divisions very coarsely 
serrate; inflorescence a very lax large subracemose panicle; peduncles suberect, lower 
ones up to 10 em. long; bracteoles nearly always alternate, inserted at varying heights; 
flowers fetid; sepals deep-blue or purple; sepaline spur subulate, 1—5 mm, longer than 
the lamina; anterior staminodes much shorter than the sepals, very dark-blue, ovate, bifid 
or subbilobed, yellow-bearded ; ovaries densely hairy; follicles 3, cylindric, 13—50 mm. 
long; seeds obpyramidate, subtriangular in cross-section, conspicuously winged along the 
edges, puckered on the sides, epidermal cells very large and irregular. 
Flowers in September and October. 
Distribution: Khasia; Shan Hills. 
From the true D. altissimum of Wallich the present species differs by its inflorescences, which 
in D. altissimum is much more distinctly racemose; by the bluish-black (not light-purple) anterior stami- 
nodes, its fetid flowers, and especially by its seeds (compare plate 121, figs. 10 а, 0, с, d with figs, 
11 а, b e). 
Var. a. KHASIANA, P. B.; leaves more or less deeply palmatipartite, coarsely serrate.— Khasia 
5 – 6,000’ (Herb. Calc. ! ). 
Var. В. внахтса, P. B.; leaves 5-loved scarcely to the middle, coarsely dentato-crenate ; inflores- 
cence an exceedingly large panicle; flowers often more distinctly racemose.—Shan 
Hills, 4—5,000’ (Collett.! ). 
Ррате 121. Delphinium stapeliosmum, P. Brühl. 1, an exceptionally small-sized flowering plant from Khasia ; 
2. extremity of axis with head of follicles, from a tall specimen, Khasia; 3, part of upper lateral branch of var. 
stamen ; 8, gynecium; 9, stigmatose part of style; 10, seed of D. stapeliosmum: (a) dorsal, (Б) ventral aspect, 
(с) cross-section through upper half, (d) epidermis; 11, seed of D. altissimum, Wall., Phullut: (а) dorsal aspect, 
(b) cross-section ; 12, seed of D cheilanthum, subspecies schizophyllum, China Hill, Garhwal, 
DELPHINIUM DENSIFLORUM, Duthie. 
(Plants of Kumaon No. 2677; D. Drunonianum, var. densa, Maxim. in Flora Tangutica.) 
A perennial, middle-sized herb. Rhizome descending, subcylindric, 3—5 mm. thick. 
Stem erect, strict, simple or scarcely branched, subcylindric, striated, fistulose, 30— 
50 сш. high, 6—10 mm. thick near the base, glabrescent below, upwards beset with 
white partly crisp retrorse hairs partly villose with longer spreading hairs often mixed with 
yellow glandular hairs. Lower leaves very long-petioled; petioles gradually dilated near 
the base, 5—18 cm. long, somewhat hairy; lamina reniform, at the base cordate, 3-partite 
to 2, 3'5—6 cm. long, 6—10 cm. broad, beueath paler, puberulous or subvillous; middle 
