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segment cuneate-obovate, trifid upwards, lateral segments trapezoidal, 8—4-lobed; lobules 
serrate-crenate, serratures callose-apiculate; upper leaves gradually decreasing in size and 
simpler with woolly petioles; lower floral leaves shortly petioled, subtruncate at the 
base or with a wide triangular sinus, palmately tripartite, divisions serrately incised and 
crenate-serrate; intermediate floral leaves petiolate or sessile, cuneate, 3- or 2-fid, dorsally 
woolly near the base, lacinize quite entire or sparsely serrate ; uppermost leaves lanceolate or 
lanceolate-linear, attenuated towards the base; narrowed upwards, 1:5 —9:5 em, long, some- 
times glandulose. Inflorescence racemose, very dense. Peduncles erect, strict, terete or 
sub-angular, lanate, lower 4—5, uppermost 1:5—2 сш. long, 1—2 mm. thick, bibracteolate 
at the middle or near the top. Bractesles opposite, sessile, adpressed, linear, narrowed 
upwards, callose-apiculate, 10—15 mm. long, 2—4 mm. wide near base, hairy on the 
back, ciliate. Sepals patulous, outside greyish-blue with blue nerves or entirely sky-blue, 
concave, short-acuminate, sublanate outside, ciliate, inside hairy along the nerves; lamina 
of posterior вера! 2—2'5 сш. long, broad-elliptic; spur either subsaccate, obtuse, about 
6 mm. long, 3—4 mm. thick near base, or conical, subacute, 12—15 mm. long; lateral 
sepals suborbieular, 16—20 mm. long. Lamina of nectariferous staminodes asymme- 
trically spatulate, at the apex bilobed or emarginate, 12—15 mm. long, below 15—2 mm., 
near the apex 2—5 mm. broad, glabrous or on the inner side of the broader top hairy, or 
at the tip yellow-bearded ; spur slender-conicai, acute, subincurved, inside open to about 
one-third and here glabrous or minutely hairy. Petaloid staminodes with an ovate or 
obovate bifid lamina, whieh is 6—7 mm. long, on the upper surface rather densely hairy, 
near the base somewhat bearded with yellow or white hairs, ciliate, dorsally hairy; lobes 
divergent ovate-ob'ong, subacute (sometimes the lamina is bilobed and erose or unequally 
trifid); claw linear, at least as long as the lamina, dorsally somewhat hairy. Stamens 
moderately numerous, 5—9 mm. long, innermost by about 1 mm. shorter, glabrous; 
filaments dilated towards Ше base; anthers ellipsoidal, obscurely apiculate, about 0:8 
mm. long. Pistils 3, erect, 4—5 mm.; ovaries ovoid-oblong, reticulate, 3 mm. long, 
glabrous, or glabrous dorsally, ventrally minute-pubescent, or densely pubescent all over; 
style filiform. Ovules about 20. Follicles 3, membranceous, erect, cylindric, obliquely 
subtruncate at the rounded tip, 11—12 mm. long, white-villose, style 3 mm. Seeds 
obpyramidal, about 2 mm. long, brown, winged with the loose testa, 
Flowers in August and September. 
Var. а. PLATYCENTRa, P. B.; spur about 6 mm. long, subsaccate, sepals greyish-blue—Kumaon: 
Ràlem pass 15—17,000' (Duthie 1), in the Lebung pass 16—17,000' (Duthie/); Tangut 
region, near Amdo (JMazim.) 
Var. В. srenocentra, P. B.; spur 12—15 mm. long, conical, sepals sky-blue.—Bashahr, 
14,000” (аі). . 
D. densiflorum, Duthie, is very closely allied to D. Brunontanum, with which it has the shape of leaves 
and flowers, as also the seeds in common Characteristic is its exceedingly dense inflorescence due to the 
pedicels being strictly erect. Мг. Duthie also tells the writer that, as far as he can remember, the flowers 
have not the odour of musk, in this respect therefore resembliug D. hushnirianum. It may be pointed out 
here that D. Jacquemontianum is not reducible to D. Brunvnianum, however great the resemblance between 
the two may be; for D. Jacquemontianuzz has not only dark-blue staminodes—a character perhaps not of 
much moment—but it has the scaly seeds of D. kashmirianum, whilst the trne D. Brunenianum has the 
seeds of D. elatum. Considering that the flowers of Kashmirian specimens of D. ranuncuiifolium, which 
we take to be a subspecies of D. speciosum, are often not so yery different from the more acutely spuired 
Axx Ror. Dor. Garp. Catc., Vor. У. 
